Mikel Arteta facing new Arsenal problem as chronic issues in title race laid bare

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has been forced to contend with a fig of wounded problems already this word to permission his broadside down successful the Premier League rubric race

Arsenal fertile among the highest successful the Premier League erstwhile it comes to clubs affected by injuries this term, authoritative statistic person confirmed.

The Gunners person managed to re-establish themselves arsenic rubric contenders nether the stewardship of Mikel Arteta and were largely fancied arsenic the squad astir likely to extremity Manchester City's spell of home dominance aft coming adjacent to doing truthful past year.

However, Arteta's men went into the planetary interruption immoderate 9 points down league leaders Liverpool. And injuries have been a large origin down their chequered form.

Data supplied by Premier Injuries to Sky Sports person revealed that Arsenal officially fertile 4th successful the Premier League this play for days mislaid by players to injury.

Their full fig stands astatine a staggering 297 days aft suffering a fig of setbacks during planetary breaks, with their astir caller 1 coming past week successful the signifier of an wounded to Belgium guardant Leandro Trossard.

Five players person sustained injuries portion representing their state this term, missing 22 games successful the process. Club skipper Martin Odegaard has been Arsenal's astir important absentee this term; the Norway midfielder was sidelined for 12 games aft suffering an ankle wounded successful September's planetary break.

Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Riccardo Calafiori person besides been struck down whilst connected planetary work and missed crippled time, portion the nine volition present beryllium waiting for a prognosis connected Trossard.

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Intriguingly, Arsenal's injuries are a caller occupation for Arteta to contend with. In their erstwhile rubric challenges implicit the past 2 years, the Gunners person been much fortunate.

Last play Arsenal had the seventh-best grounds successful the Premier League aft losing conscionable 898 days to wounded crossed the season. The twelvemonth anterior to that, Arteta was capable to sanction an unchanged squad connected 13 occasions - much than immoderate different squad successful the league - owed to their bully luck connected the fittingness front.

Arteta stressed the interaction injuries person had connected Arsenal earlier this month, saying to Sky Sports: “You could spot everything was flowing but again it is astir winning.

“We person a wide imaginativeness of however we tin germinate the team. What we find retired is that we person to alteration thing large due to the fact that we person occupation aft problem. My biggest fearfulness is physically to get players astatine their champion for 90 minutes. With that I'm afloat assured we volition person a bully season.”

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