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Published February 12, 2025 11:31am Updated February 12, 2025 11:31am
Piers Morgan has ripped into Mikel Arteta successful airy of the Arsenal manager’s transportation gamble spectacularly backfiring.
Rather than put successful their already injury-ravaged squad during the January window, the Gunners opted to support their pulverization dry until the summer erstwhile they are expected to put heavy successful their attack.
A reluctance to walk past period meant the goalscoring load was lone apt to summation connected the likes of Leandro Trossard, Raheem Sterling, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli.
Two of that quartet, however, person already suffered injuries since the model closed leaving Arsenal without a recognised striker.
Havertz is acceptable to acquisition a scan connected Wednesday having aggravated a musculus wounded during a lukewarm upwind grooming campy successful Dubai, portion Martinelli volition miss astatine slightest a period with a hamstring strain.
Reacting to the news, personage Arsenal instrumentality Morgan took the accidental to instrumentality purpose astatine Arteta whose thriftiness could yet outgo his nine the accidental of winning the Premier League oregon Champions League.
‘Great,’ said Morgan with a monumental helping of sarcasm. ‘Our lone striker injured.
Arteta connected options to screen for Havertz
‘We are going to person to beryllium flexible successful the beforehand line, the ones we person we person to marque definite they enactment acceptable and are contributing, tin play successful that position.
‘Raheem (Sterling) has played successful that position, Ethan (Nwaneri) I deliberation tin play successful that position, (Gabriel) Martinelli, truthful lets spot successful narration to however everybody is successful the moment, the opponent.
‘But astatine immoderate constituent I deliberation we volition person to effort thing different.’
‘Arteta has been truthful monumentally derelict successful failing to motion caller strikers, and present we beryllium near with nary astatine all.’
After a week off, the Gunners caput into what is apt to beryllium a decisive signifier of their season.
Arteta’s men are backmost successful enactment against Leicester City this play earlier games against West Ham, Nottingham Forest, Manchester United and Chelsea anterior to the planetary break.
Should Liverpool suffer against Everton this evening successful the last Merseyside derby to beryllium played astatine Goodison Park, Arsenal would person the accidental to chopped the spread astatine the apical to conscionable 3 points erstwhile they look the Foxes astatine the King Power connected Saturday lunchtime.
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