Arsenal injury update: Takehiro Tomiyasu, Ben White and Kieran Tierney latest news and return dates

Arsenal’s wounded woes person yet eased importantly up of a pivotal tally of fixtures crossed each competitions.

The Gunners’ frustrating commencement to the play came against the backdrop of changeless fittingness woes, with Mikel Arteta’s broadside going 4 Premier League matches without a triumph to driblet to 4th and 9 points adrift of aboriginal leaders Liverpool earlier the November planetary break.

However, superior Ben White setback aside, things were looking overmuch brighter for Saturday’s sojourn of Nottingham Forest arsenic Arteta made 5 changes from the gully astatine Chelsea, with Bukayo Saka, Riccardo Calafiori and Leandro Trossard each passed acceptable to commencement aft knocks, skipper Martin Odegaard making an awesome 2nd commencement aft his ankle wounded and Declan Rice acceptable capable to beryllium connected the bench.

Arsenal looked to get done their dominant 3-0 triumph implicit Forest without immoderate further setbacks, with Jorginho’s half-time substitution seeming to beryllium caused by his yellowish paper alternatively than immoderate fittingness blow.

The cardinal fixtures travel heavy and accelerated present for the Gunners, with Sporting Lisbon up adjacent successful the Champions League connected Tuesday nighttime up of games against West Ham, Manchester United, Fulham, Monaco, Everton and a double-header against Crystal Palace that includes a Carabao Cup quarter-final showdown. With that successful mind, present is each the latest Arsenal wounded news and instrumentality dates.

White is the objection to Arsenal’s vastly improved wounded picture, with the versatile defender having dealt with aggregate issues implicit respective weeks starring into the past planetary break, erstwhile the determination was made to nonstop him for a genu procedure.

It was initially unclear precisely however overmuch clip White would miss, earlier Arteta confirmed earlier the triumph implicit Forest that helium was facing months connected the sidelines.

"Ben White is going to beryllium retired for months, unfortunately," helium said. "It's been antithetic kinds of struggles, ne'er the aforesaid thing.

"We had to marque a decision, it hasn't been improving successful the past fewer weeks. We cognize Ben is going to propulsion each boundary, but it got to a constituent wherever we had to support the player.

"We decided to bash surgery, helium agreed with that and that's going to support him retired for a fewer months.

"We person to spot however helium reacts post-surgery, I don't expect it to beryllium fractional a twelvemonth but I can't accidental precisely however agelong it volition be."

Potential instrumentality date: Early 2025

White’s lack is compounded by that of Takehiro Tomiyasu, who missed the archetypal mates of months of the play with a genu wounded suffered implicit the summertime and made a little instrumentality disconnected the seat against Southampton successful aboriginal October earlier suffering different setback that has kept him sidelined ever since.

There is inactive nary timeline for the Japan defender’s imaginable return, with Arteta revealing earlier the triumph implicit Forest that helium was present acceptable for a alteration of scenery successful a bid to effort and assistance his recovery.

“Tomiyasu is going to beryllium retired arsenic good for a bit,” Arteta said. “He’s going to beryllium distant present for a fewer weeks for him to proceed with his grooming and to alteration his situation a small spot due to the fact that it’s been truly pugnacious for him arsenic you tin imagine.

“He’s 1 of the guys wherever the lone happening helium wants to bash is to enactment 24 hours to get amended and helium feels unspeakable erstwhile he’s not fit, truthful it’s a existent shame. We’re going to springiness him the champion accidental to effort and unlock thing to assistance him to person him backmost arsenic rapidly arsenic possible, but I deliberation we request to beryllium patient.”

Potential instrumentality date: Unknown

A 3rd Arsenal full-back presently sidelined, Kieran Tierney has been retired ever since being stretchered disconnected with a superior hamstring wounded during Scotland’s crippled against Switzerland astatine Euro 2024 successful June.

The erstwhile Celtic defender has been dilatory stepping up his instrumentality to fittingness of late, with Arteta confirming past week that Tierney had trained a mates of times astatine London Colney but was not yet acceptable to beryllium considered for a instrumentality to action.

“Kieran - not yet,” the Spaniard said. “He had a mates of sessions with the squad but is not acceptable yet to beryllium with the team.”

Potential instrumentality date: December/January