Arsenal handed double injury boost as squad for Dubai training camp confirmed

Arsenal person flown retired to Dubai for a lukewarm upwind grooming camp, with Mikel Arteta being handed a treble wounded boost successful the aftermath of Wednesday's dreadful decision to Newcastle

Bukayo Saka and Ben White person joined Arsenal's squad for their Dubai grooming campy arsenic they measurement up their recoveries from injury.

Saka has been recovering from a hamstring injury that helium underwent country connected successful December portion White has been absent since undergoing a process connected his knee successful November.

In their absence, the Gunners person been knocked retired of some the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup. They person reached the past 16 of the Champions League and are inactive successful the Premier League rubric race, but are lone conscionable clinging connected to leaders Liverpool.

With nary crippled successful this weekend's 4th circular of the FA Cup, Mikel Arteta has opted to instrumentality his broadside distant to the Middle East for a lukewarm upwind grooming camp. They don't play again until 15 February, with a akin travel past twelvemonth having transformed their season.

Both Saka and White person been pictured walking retired to Arsenal's level for the travel connected Thursday. The duo volition proceed their rehabilitation from their injuries portion connected the grooming camp.

Saka sustained his wounded during the 5-1 triumph implicit Crystal Palace connected 21 December and is expected to instrumentality successful March. White meantime past played connected 10 November successful the 1-1 gully with Chelsea.

Arteta has besides decided to see 15-year-old Max Dowman and 16-year-old Jack Porter successful the travelling squad. Meanwhile Gabriel Martinelli besides travelled, though helium is acceptable to acquisition a scan aft sustaining a suspected hamstring wounded during the Carabao Cup semi-final decision to Newcastle.

Arsenal's adjacent crippled comes successful the sojourn to Leicester successful the Premier League a week connected Saturday. Arteta admitted aft the decision astatine St James' Park that helium was looking guardant to the accidental to manus his squad somewhat of a break.

"I wouldn’t similar [to accidental that]. Especially erstwhile we suffer a game, physically we were bushed and you cognize we played truthful galore games, we played truthful galore games each 3 days," Arteta said connected Wednesday.

"We knew that this was going to beryllium a truly high-intensity one. I deliberation emotionally arsenic well, it was a precise antithetic crippled that we needed to get determination to judge close until the extremity that we could bash it, and earlier that the crippled got distant from us.

"We request to swallow this one, it’s a pugnacious 1 and we had a batch of expectations. We knew the trouble of the task due to the fact that of the effect that we brought from London, but there’s thing we tin bash close now.

"What we could bash was connected the transportation a fewer minutes ago. Now we person to look forward, archetypal of each I deliberation this is going to beryllium a achy one, and erstwhile we’re successful Dubai, recharge and spell again due to the fact that we inactive person a batch to play for."

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