Arsenal news: Gunners given updates on Martin Odegaard and Riccardo Calafiori injuries

Arsenal are sweating connected the fittingness of a fig of first-team stars arsenic they hole to invited Liverpool to the Emirates Stadium for a immense Premier League clash

Arsenal person a immense lucifer against Liverpool connected the horizon, and plentifulness of wounded worries to woody with.

The Gunners beryllium 4 points adrift of Sunday's opponents, with Manchester City separating the pair. With City astatine location to winless Southampton connected Saturday, decision for Mikel Arteta's men could permission them playing catch-up to not 1 but 2 rubric rivals.

William Saliba volition miss the crippled done suspension, portion a fig of his team-mates are doubts done injury. Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard and Jurrien Timber each missed the midweek triumph implicit Shakhtar, with Riccardo Calafiori picking up an wounded against the Ukrainian side.

Arteta's pre-match property league should supply a stronger thought of who volition beryllium disposable connected Sunday, but determination person already been a fewer rumblings. Here, Mirror Football provides you with each the latest from North London.

Norway brag offers Odegaard hope

Norway manager Stale Solbakken anticipates Martin Odegaard being disposable for the November planetary break. The midfielder - who captains Arsenal and Norway - has not played since picking up an ankle injury successful enactment for his state successful September.

"Everything indicates that (Odegaard's injury) is going according to plan, past it is astir the past steps erstwhile you are going to bid with opponents and astatine squad training," Solbakken told Verdens Gang. "It depends connected however helium responds to it, but we person a justified anticipation that helium is ready.

"I've spoken to him rather regularly. Now that it's starting to progress, it's easier, but it’s not amusive to beryllium injured. At the aforesaid time, helium has been precise small injured, truthful it is astir apt a grooming substance for him."

Extent of Calafiori wounded emerges

Mirror Football understand Riccardo Calafiori is poised to miss a fig of weeks with the wounded helium sustained against Shakhtar Donetsk. The Italian was retreat 20 minutes from time, with youngster Myles Lewis-Skelly finishing the crippled astatine left-back.

There had initially been fears the summertime signing could beryllium successful enactment for an ever lengthier absence. He is understood to person lone insignificant harm to his medial genu ligament, though, and that often means weeks alternatively than months.

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While the quality could person been worse, the ex-Bologna antheral is inactive improbable to beryllium disposable against Liverpool connected Sunday. With William Saliba suspended and Jurrien Timber a doubt, Arteta could beryllium near with immoderate large decisions.

Liverpool prima makes pre-Arsenal rubric claim

Liverpool defender Kostas Tsimikas thinks it's excessively aboriginal to marque immoderate predictions astir the rubric race. This is contempt his squad having a accidental to determination 7 points wide of Arsenal with a triumph connected Sunday.

Tsimikas and his team-mates sat apical of the Premier League astatine the extremity of March past season. They fell distant successful the last fewer weeks of the campaign, though, yet finishing 9 points adrift of champions Manchester City and 7 beneath runners-up Arsenal, showing however rapidly things tin change.

“Game by crippled we person to triumph to instrumentality the 3 points and to play bully football," the Greek planetary said. "That’s important for the squad close now. It’s excessively aboriginal to talk astir [title challenges]. We acceptable our goals from the commencement of the season, we privation to spell for everything.”

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