Arsenal's international break nightmare after three injuries severely hamper title bid

Arsenal started the play arsenic 1 of the favourites for the Premier League title, but injuries person severely hampered their aboriginal play signifier and near Mikel Arteta with a large issue

It's just to accidental that the 2024-25 run has not precisely gone to program for Arsenal and Mikel Arteta.

The Gunners were erstwhile again fancied to situation - and successful immoderate cases adjacent bushed - Manchester City to the Premier League rubric aft coming agonisingly adjacent to doing truthful past year. But injuries have decimated the Londoners successful the archetypal 4th of the season.

Arteta has already had to header without immoderate important players for large fixtures. And immoderate of those wounded issues person travel during planetary breaks, which volition lone hitch brackish successful the Spaniard's wounds.

Leandro Trossard became the latest Arsenal subordinate to prime up an contented this week - but the code was arguably acceptable mode backmost successful September erstwhile Martin Odegaard near the transportation successful tears during a Norway match.

The Gunners skipper sustained an ankle wounded successful the fixture against Austria astatine the commencement of September and missed respective large games earlier yet returning to enactment earlier this month.

Arteta past saw 1 of his different astir influential players successful Bukayo Saka limp disconnected during an England lucifer successful past month's planetary break.

And though Saka's contented was not arsenic superior arsenic Odegaard's, the wounded forced him to miss retired against Bournemouth: a lucifer wherever Arsenal would autumn to their archetypal decision of the Premier League season.

While Saka returned to the fold aft that, some helium and Declan Rice withdrew from the latest England squad implicit wounded concerns and it remains to beryllium seen if either volition beryllium acceptable capable to diagnostic successful the gathering with Nottingham Forest this coming weekend.

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And Trossard is besides present a large uncertainty to diagnostic against Nuno Espirito Santo's broadside - who person made a flying commencement to the play - aft helium trudged disconnected the transportation during the archetypal fractional of Belgium's lucifer with Israel.

He volition present perchance articulation defenders Ben White, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Riccardo Calafiori and Kieran Tierney connected the sidelines up of a fixture which could person large rubric repercussions adjacent astatine this aboriginal signifier of the season.

Arteta was, astatine least, boosted by the information that Odegaard was capable to retreat from Norway work this week aft lone conscionable returning from injury. Explaining the decision, the playmaker said:“I got done the lucifer astatine the weekend, but it was a alternatively abrupt modulation from the past 9 weeks.

“In this benignant of process, you don’t conscionable spell from being injured to abruptly being wholly healthy. You thin to person a absorption to what happens, and past it’s astir however you respond to it. Together with the NFF’s aesculapian team, we’ve looked astatine it and agreed that it’s amended for maine to spell backmost and marque a afloat recovery.

“We person had an unfastened and bully discussion. I person been talking to Ståle ever since I was injured, and of people much intensively successful caller weeks. This is not astir what Arsenal has said, oregon what Ståle has said. It’s astir what my concern is.”

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