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Mikel Arteta has nary plans to rotate his Arsenal broadside for Thursday’s Champions League clash against Atalanta with a travel to Manchester City looming ample this weekend.
The Gunners statesman their European run distant successful Italy connected Thursday night, their archetypal of 8 games successful the competition’s caller league signifier that runs until January.
Matters volition past rapidly displacement backmost to the Premier League with past season’s apical 2 gathering astatine the Etihad connected Sunday afternoon.
Arteta’s squad was stretched adjacent astatine this aboriginal signifier of the play last play against Tottenham, seeing disconnected their arch-rivals contempt missing 2 of their regular midfield stars and caller signing Mikel Merino.
Thomas Partey, the past antheral standing, has played each infinitesimal of this play on with the antiaircraft trio of Ben White, Gabriel Magalhaes and William Saliba and Kai Havertz up front.
Bukayo Saka meantime limped disconnected with cramp in the last minutes of the Tottenham win, returning to grooming this week with Arteta confirming the winger is disposable for Thursday’s crippled successful Bergamo.
Despite the packed fixture docket and that captious travel to the Etihad, Arteta insists helium is not tempted to marque large changes.
Asked if helium volition rotate the broadside with City successful mind, Arteta told a property league connected Wednesday: ‘No we are successful September truthful we person to enactment the players that we judge are the champion to triumph tomorrow.
‘That’s the astir important and lone happening for us.’
Man City meantime volition person an other days’ remainder with the champions successful enactment against Inter Milan connected Wednesday night.
Asked if that could beryllium a disadvantage, Arteta said: ‘Hopefully not. We person truthful overmuch vigor from what happened connected Sunday, it was great.
‘We person recovered a fewer players which is precise important for america arsenic well, and we’re playing successful a contention that we perfectly love, truthful we’re looking astatine the positives.’
In summation to Saka, Arsenal person Riccardo Calafiori disposable again aft his caller sound but Martin Odegaard is acceptable for a spell connected the sidelines with Arteta confirming helium has suffered a ‘significant’ ankle ligament injury.
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