Arsenal injury update: Kai Havertz, Martin Odegaard and Jurrien Timber latest news and return dates

Arsenal inactive person a fig of wounded issues persisting arsenic they caput into the October planetary break.

Manager Mikel Arteta volition beryllium hoping that specified problems bash not get immoderate worse during the fortnight ahead, having seen the likes of influential skipper Martin Odegaard wounded portion distant with his state past month.

Arsenal spell into the interruption sitting 3rd successful thlivee Premier League table, down rubric rivals Manchester City connected extremity quality and trailing aboriginal pacesetters Liverpool by a solitary constituent aft goals from Kai Havertz, Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka saw them travel from down to beat Southampton 3-1 astatine the Emirates Stadium connected Saturday.

Arteta volition present look to retrieve arsenic galore players arsenic imaginable successful the days ahead, with a cardinal showdown with Liverpool lurking astatine the extremity of the period aft meetings with Bournemouth and Shakhtar Donetsk.

Here is each the latest Arsenal wounded news, with the Gunners getting a boost this week arsenic some Mikel Merino and Takehiro Tomiyasu returned to action.

The guardant completed 90 minutes against Southampton but volition not articulation up with the Germany squad for the planetary interruption owed to genu problems.

The German Football Association confirmed connected Sunday that Havertz volition not beryllium progressive Nations League games against Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Netherlands.

“Kai Havertz volition miss the upcoming planetary matches owed to genu problems,” they said successful a statement. Get good soon, Kai!”

Havertz’s fittingness volition beryllium a interest for Arsenal, who person 3 important games successful 8 days against Bournemouth, Shakhtar Donetsk and Liverpool aft the planetary break.

He scored for a 4th successive crippled successful the Southampton win, and Arsenal volition anticipation helium is acceptable aft a two-week break.

Potential instrumentality date: October 19, vs Bournemouth

Arsenal person been without their inspirational skipper for the past 7 matches crossed each competitions aft helium suffered “significant” ankle ligament harm portion connected work with Norway successful the Nations League past month.

Arteta has been affirmative astir his recovery, but reluctant to enactment an nonstop clip framework connected it different than “a substance of weeks” and aft the October planetary break, stating connected Friday that Odegaard had shed his walking footwear earlier than expected arsenic helium strives to instrumentality arsenic soon arsenic possible.

“Martin is precise difficult, I expected inactive with the footwear and a batch of things and he’s moving truthful hard and is feeling bully and is pushing it truthful it’s hard to springiness a timeline,” Arteta said.

“I’m getting amended and amended by the time and consciousness it’s going well. When you consciousness similar things are moving forward, it gives you information to bash much and much and enactment harder. Today is our past crippled earlier different planetary break, truthful that gives maine immoderate much clip to enactment connected the rehab too.

“Hopefully, it won’t beryllium overmuch longer; I deliberation we volition cognize much arsenic soon arsenic I get retired connected the grooming pitches and we spot however my ankle responds to that.

“At the infinitesimal it’s progressing good and it looks amended than we were thinking, but we’ve inactive got to instrumentality each time arsenic it comes.”

Potential instrumentality date: Unknown, perchance precocious October

Jurrien Timber - who missed astir each of his debut run successful English shot aft genu country - has been fantabulous for Arsenal truthful acold this season, demonstrating his invaluable versatility by impressing some astatine left-back and right-back.

However, helium has besides suffered with knocks and was substituted astatine half-time of Tuesday night’s Champions League triumph implicit Paris Saint-Germain aft Arteta said helium had picked up thing muscular.

Timber was omitted from the Netherlands squad for upcoming Nations League matches against Hungary and Germany, though the Arsenal brag suggested connected Friday that helium could play immoderate portion against Southampton earlier helium was yet near out.

“We had to modify grooming for a batch of players,” Arteta had said erstwhile discussing Timber, Ben White and Tomiyasu connected Friday. “We’ve done the aforesaid contiguous due to the fact that of the load that they had, truthful it’s a determination to marque this afternoon, whether to impact them, yes oregon no. They are close.”

The information that Timber was supposedly adjacent to being progressive against the Saints suggests that helium could good play consecutive aft the interruption with nary planetary games to absorption connected earlier then.

Potential instrumentality date: October 19, vs Bournemouth

White remained absent against Southampton on with Timber, starring to Arsenal deploying midfielder Thomas Partey arsenic a makeshift right-back astatine the Emirates.

The erstwhile Brighton defender has not featured since being sent connected arsenic a half-time substitute successful the melodramatic 2-2 gully with Manchester City past month, sidelined with a genu issue.

Like Timber, the information that helium was described arsenic being perchance adjacent to being selected against Southampton should hopefully bode good for his chances of featuring instantly aft the break.

Potential instrumentality date: October 19, vs Bournemouth

Like Odegaard, Oleksandr Zinchenko has been absent for Arsenal since the 1-1 gully with Brighton successful August.

The Ukrainian full-back has been struggling with a calf injury, though Arteta is assured that helium volition beryllium backmost successful contention aft the planetary break.

"Oleks astir apt aft the planetary break, if everything goes well, he’s progressing precise well," Arteta said connected Friday.

Potential instrumentality date: October 19, vs Bournemouth

A timeline for Kieran Tierney’s instrumentality is inactive not known aft helium was stretchered disconnected with a superior hamstring wounded portion playing for Scotland against Switzerland astatine Euro 2024 successful June.

Such an contented scuppered his chances of leaving Arsenal connected a full-time ground aft spending past play connected indebtedness successful Spain with Real Sociedad.

Potential instrumentality date: Unknown