Injuries are a concern for Arsenal ahead of their Carabao Cup match against West Ham United.
Some key names like Odegaard, Jesus, Partey are dealing with injuries is sudden headeche for Mikel Arteta.
This month, Arsenal’s fixtures come thick and fast. Following a relatively straightforward Premier League victory against Sheffield United on Saturday attention is also now on Carabao Cup action.
On Tuesday night, the Gunners will visit the London Stadium to take on West Ham United in an attempt to advance to the competition’s quarterfinal.
here’s a look at the most recent Arsenal injury news and potential return dates ahead of Mikel Arteta’s opportunity to rest a number of key players.
Injury updates of Arsenal players
Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard could only make the bench against Sheffield United at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday. As return to the team on 1st November.
Arteta said about Odegaard: “We went through all the minutes that everybody has played the last three weeks and some of them played an enormous amount of minutes. Martin has been as well carrying a little thing that wasn’t very comfortable in the games. So we have players with enormous quality and we have to choose and we believe that it was the right day to do so.”
Although against Seville Gabriel Jesus was excellent but he pulled up clutching his hamstring late on in the game.
On Thursday, Jesus was sent for a hamstring scan, and Arteta confirmed that the forward would be out for several weeks. As he said:
“The scans show that there is a muscle injury. We might miss him for a few weeks again… With Gabi I cannot give you any time frame because he always surprises us. He also felt something there, it was a really awkward action. It’s true that he had quite a lot of load in those games playing with the national team and with us which he hasn’t done in a long, long time. However That’s really bad news for us.”
Thomas Partey and the Dutchman Jurrien Timber even also not available for uncertain period. Partey has thigh injury.
on the other hand, Timber is going through knee. So far he will again back to gunners in 2024.
Arteta has not much so options in his hand. Although they have well run yet in this season.
