Arsenal Manager Mikel Areta has confirmed that he is ready to become creative to help Arsenal losing injured The central defender Gabriel Magalhaes offers the hope that Ben White and Jurrien Timber will be on the better.
Gabriel was excluded for the rest of the season after a thigh problem, in which William Saliba desperately tries to pursue Liverpool in the Premier League title race without his almost permanent central defender as an arsenal.
“It was difficult to digest because we just got Bukayo [Saka] Back, and then we lost Gabi, “Areteta reflected.” It was hard.
“The team reacted as if it had reacted all the season. So proud of it, and we know that it will look for a while, so we have to find different solutions and continue to compete as we were all season.
“We have come so far, and now we have the most important, most beautiful part of the season, and we have to react to these things. This means that other players have the opportunity to play and the team has to find different ways, and it is undoubtedly a big mistake, but we have the resources to deal with it.”
At short notice and with Real Madrid in the quarter -finals of the Champions League in the next week, Arsenal will meet options because Riccardo Calafiori is traveling with a knee injury. Fortunately, both Ben White and Jurrien Timber have recovered from their fitness problems and have a “chance” to present Everton this weekend.
“Ric is also not fit because we have lost four players in the past week or so, and that is obviously a big task, but let’s see how Ben and Jurria are tomorrow and that’s it,” he said. “Continue to play and keep competing like us.”
After the defensive midfielder Mikel Merino was filled with striker, Areteta was asked if he could change the position of another player. Thomas Party has filled out in the right-back and Declan Rice began his senior career in Center-Back, but Arteteta wants to avoid deviating too far from his preferred team leaf.
“Well, there are a couple [options] On the table, “he said.” How far we have to go down this path, hopefully not so deep, but there are obviously options. “