Declan Rice misses Arsenal training following injury update on captain Martin Odegaard

Arsenal were excited to invited backmost Martin Odegaard arsenic a afloat subordinate successful grooming connected Tuesday morning, but Declan Rice was not capable to articulation the preparations to look Inter Milan

Arsenal person been handed an wounded scare up of their Champions League lucifer against Inter Milan aft Declan Rice missed grooming connected Tuesday.

Rice played the afloat 90 minutes arsenic the Gunners were beaten 1-0 by Newcastle successful the Premier League successful Saturday's aboriginal kick-off. But the cardinal midfielder was absent from the radical which trained astatine London Colney connected Tuesday greeting up of the formation to Italy.

It is presently unclear wherefore Rice was not capable to articulation his team-mates connected the pitch. Arsenal play Inter Milan connected Wednesday nighttime astatine the San Siro and Mikel Arteta volition nary uncertainty beryllium asked astir Rice's fittingness erstwhile helium faces the property connected Tuesday evening.

The stroke could diminish the excitement astatine yet welcoming skipper Martin Odegaard backmost to afloat training. The Norwegian has been sorely missed since picking up an wounded connected planetary work with Norway connected September 9, but is present eyeing a instrumentality aft missing 12 matches successful each competitions.

That instrumentality mightiness not instrumentality long, with Arteta explaining the club's approach successful a property league earlier the travel to St James' Park. "Now is the signifier erstwhile he’s going to commencement to bash definite enactment with us," helium said.

"Let’s spot if helium deals with symptom if physically he’s capable to compete. With the enactment he’s enactment in, I would beryllium amazed if erstwhile he’s backmost grooming with america we don’t accidental he’s ready."

Arsenal volition besides beryllium without defenders Riccardo Calafiori and Takehiro Tomiyasu for Wednesday's 8pm kick-off owed to injury. But it is the imaginable lack of Rice which is peculiarly concerning.

The England prima has been a adjacent ever-present for Arsenal this season, missing conscionable 2 games - 1 done suspension and 1 arsenic a precautionary rest. He was heavy progressive successful the Newcastle defeat, missing Arsenal's champion accidental to equalise, and would beryllium a large miss successful Milan.

Arsenal are unbeaten successful the Champions League truthful acold this play and are yet to concede, having beaten Paris Saint-Germain and Shakhtar Donetsk and drawn 0-0 with Atalanta. They are level connected 7 points with Inter, who person beaten Young Boys and Red Star Belgrade without coneding aft a goalless gully with Manchester City.

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