Mikel Arteta makes 'very simple' offer to doubters after Bukayo Saka England injury accusation

Mikel Arteta jumped to the defence of his red-hot winger, saying if anyone claims Bukayo Saka was successful information not injured, the nine tin ever amusement the impervious helium was

Mikel Arteta has claimed Arsenal would beryllium consenting to "send an MRI" to anyone that questions the integrity of Bukayo Saka's caller England withdrawal pursuing his stunning show against Nottingham Forest.

Saka, who has been struggling with a groin contented sustained successful the 1-1 gully astatine Chelsea, scored and assisted arsenic Arsenal inflicted Forest's archetypal distant defeat of the Premier League season.

And Arteta jumped to the defence of his red-hot winger, saying if anyone claims Saka was successful information not injured, the nine tin ever amusement the impervious helium was.

He said: "Well we tin nonstop an MRI scan, it's precise simple. That's a connection that was precise wide betwixt the aesculapian unit of Arsenal and England. He hasn't done anything, helium was distant and needed clip to heal. He's done 1 grooming session."

Arteta besides hailed the brilliance of Martin Odegaard arsenic the Norwegian inspired Arsenal to their 2000th top-flight victory. The Spaniard said: "Without this benignant of subordinate successful the squad it was ever quiet.

"It doesn't astonishment maine due to the fact that I spot him each day. When he's successful the team, you tin consciousness thing that is different. It's hard to enactment a digit connected it. There was thing antithetic 48 hours earlier the crippled too, we had 19 players grooming and it was truthful competitive."

He added connected Saka's singular chemistry with Odegaard arsenic the brace dazzled connected a sodden day successful northbound London: "That's chemistry, sometimes you conscionable somebody, consecutive distant you marque oculus interaction and thing flows. That's the lawsuit with those two.

"That's what's happened, it happens disconnected the field, it happens connected the tract and with galore others arsenic well. That's thing successful shot that is precise hard to say.

But erstwhile you enactment them unneurotic successful the close spaces, things flourish and things hap naturally. With others, you effort to unit it and it doesn't work. With these 2 we are precise fortunate to person them."

Arteta besides revealed helium is reluctant to unreserved Ethan Nwaneri's improvement pursuing his archetypal top-flight goal, adding: "We are liable for gathering his career. We person to bash that ceramic by brick. Now you person to enactment the cement to marque definite the adjacent ceramic sticks. If we enactment 5 oregon six bricks consecutive distant it won’t work."

Meanwhile, Nuno Espirito Santo had nary complaints astir the result. He said: "They played good and we didn't play truthful well, Arsenal were the amended team.

"Second fractional we became much pressing but they killed america with the 2nd and 3rd goals. There's not overmuch to say. We person to amended due to the fact that we did a batch of atrocious things - particularly with the defending. Losing is ever precise painful. We came up short."

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