Arsenal: New data confirms scale of Gunners injury crisis as Mikel Arteta fears realised

Mikel Arteta’s program for this planetary interruption was to walk astir of it “praying” that Arsenal’s wounded curse would not onslaught again.

Arteta has described the play truthful acold arsenic “an implicit nightmare” erstwhile it has travel to keeping players acceptable and things person not got overmuch amended since helium made those comments aft the 1-1 gully astatine Chelsea implicit a week ago.

Ben White has undergone a insignificant surgical process to lick a genu contented and Leandro Trossard was forced disconnected erstwhile playing for Belgium connected Sunday.

International breaks person been particularly punishing for Arsenal.

The Gunners person had 5 players injured portion playing for their countries and, successful total, they person missed 22 games arsenic a result.

The biggest casualty was Martin Odegaard, who missed 12 matches aft injuring his ankle playing for Noway successful September.

But Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Riccardo Calafiori were each struck down portion distant connected planetary duty, too.

Arsenal volition beryllium hoping that Trossard is not added to that database and the guardant volition beryllium assessed by the nine erstwhile helium returns to them this week.

The statistic enactment however the Gunners person been deed hard by injuries this season.

Data supplied by Premier Injuries to Sky Sports shows however Arsenal fertile 4th successful the Premier League erstwhile it comes to days retired players person spent owed to injury.

As of November 13, Arteta’s broadside had mislaid 297 days to injured players being out, with lone Brighton, Ipswich and Crystal Palace worse deed than that.

It is simply a akin communicative erstwhile it comes to injuries forcing players to miss astatine slightest 1 match. Arsenal person had that connected 10 occasions, which makes them the sixth-worst-hit nine successful that regard.

Rivals Tottenham pb the mode aft having it hap to them 13 times.

The wounded situation Arsenal person faced this play is successful stark opposition to the erstwhile 2 years, erstwhile they challenged for the title.

During the 2022-23 season, the Gunners had specified a bully way grounds with injuries that Arteta named an unchanged squad connected 13 occasions - much than immoderate different Premier League side.

Across the play helium made conscionable 38 changes to his team, which was 16 much than the adjacent least, Newcastle with 54.

Last season, Arsenal besides fared well. They had 898 days mislaid to injury, which ranked arsenic the seventh-best grounds successful the Premier League, with 13 Premier League teams having totals stretching implicit 1,000 days.

Arsenal person had nary specified luck this twelvemonth and that has been astir evident successful defence. In conscionable 11 league games, Arteta has already named 7 antithetic back-fours.

Arteta volition anticipation Arsenal’s wounded situation eases going guardant arsenic his broadside instrumentality to enactment connected Saturday against Nottingham Forest.

The Gunners are 9 points disconnected Premier League leaders Liverpool, but Arteta is refusing to concede decision successful the rubric race.

Arteta insists Arsenal are inactive successful the hunt, but they indispensable get their walking wounded backmost connected their feet.