Mikel Arteta provides injury updates on four key Arsenal stars

Mikel Arteta confessed helium could lone beryllium ‘vague’ astir the fittingness of Declan Rice up of Sunday’s Premier League showdown against Chelsea.

Arsenal’s club-record signing missed the midweek decision against Inter successful the Champions League with consequent reports claiming helium is nursing a breached toe.

Rice is said to beryllium acceptable to play done the symptom obstruction successful an effort to assistance his broadside extremity a miserable tally of signifier which has seen them suffer interaction with league leaders Liverpool and surrender an unbeaten commencement to their European campaign.

;I person to beryllium precise vague connected that 1 due to the fact that determination is nary clarity, if helium is going to beryllium acceptable oregon not for the weekend,’ said Arteta.

‘He hasn’t trained yet and it is not wide yet whether helium is going to beryllium available.’

Arteta did look a small much hopeful connected the imaginable of Kai Havertz and Mikel Merino being capable to diagnostic against Chelsea aft some failed to implicit 90 minutes successful midweek.

He added: ‘[We person to] hold to spot however they react. Kai’s was rather a nasty cut. Mikel wasn’t feeling large and we decided to substitute him astatine half-time.’

Arsenal were astatine slightest boosted connected Wednesday by the show of Martin Odegaard making a instrumentality arsenic a precocious substitute.

The nine skipper had missed 12 games since helium damaged ankle ligaments playing for his state successful September but Arteta volition anticipation Odegaard’s comeback tin coincide with an upturn successful results.

‘Everybody that is successful the squad volition beryllium acceptable and disposable to commencement the game,’ said Arteta erstwhile asked if Odegaard was acceptable to start. ‘Then it is simply a determination to spot if it is excessively early.’

‘It’s astir the corporate and everybody taking ownership,’ helium added. ‘Certainly having a subordinate similar Martin helps due to the fact that helium has shown what an interaction helium has implicit the past four, 5 years.

‘Let’s spot however helium goes, however helium trains tomorrow. He’s available, he’s fit, past we marque the decision.

‘He’s ever precise adjacent and progressive with the team. He knows his relation and responsibility. It is antithetic but the squad had nary issues astatine all.

‘We person to accommodate a batch this play due to the fact that we person a batch of injuries.

‘That is thing the squad is learning and adapting to. A batch of the times it has worked and a batch of times thing is missing. The squad has the capableness to adjust.’

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