Mikel Arteta offers worrying injury update after Carabao Cup exit


Mikel Areta has confirmed that Gabriel Martinelli is sent on an apparent thigh for a scan Injury Cocked 2-0 against Newcastle United on Wednesday against Arsenals.

The Gunners were beaten from the same goal line in both legs of their semi -finals of their Carabao Cup, but suffered the additional blow to lose Martinelli late in the first half after the wing player had driven up and had to leave the field.

With Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus, both in the middle of extensive injuries, Arsenal can poorly enrich another significant loss and expect the results of scans to Martelelli’s question.

“He felt something, I think it was his knee tendon and he wasn’t comfortable to continue,” said Areta after the game. “So tomorrow we have to have an MRI scan to see the extent of the injury.”

Gabriel Martinelli

Martinelli went with his head in his hands / Stu Forster / Gettyimages

Areta has already expressed his disappointment with arsenals lack of incomes during the transfer window in January after he had lost both Saka and Jesus. Every magic on the edge for Martinelli would leave Kai Havertz, Raheem Sterling, Leandro Trossard and Ethan Nwaneri as only available options for Areta.

In order to support recovery in recovery, Arsenal will be divided into warm weather training camp in Dubia on Thursday.

“We have to swallow this, it’s a difficult one,” continued Areta. “We had a lot of expectations, we knew the difficulty of the task because we were brought from London, but we can’t do anything now.

“What we could do is, we were on the field a few minutes ago, now we have to be happy. First of all, I think that this will be painful and while we are in Dubai, invite it and then go back because we still have a lot to play.

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