In an effort to win their fourth straight game in Group A of the Europa League, Arsenal will visit PSV Eindhoven today, but Mikel Arteta is concerned about his player’s condition.
Gabriel Martinelli was reportedly not at practice today as Arsenal prepared for their Europa League match against PSV Eindhoven at the Emirates.
The Brazil international is believed to have received a kick to his calf throughout the full 90 minutes he played against Leeds United on Sunday and won’t likely be risked tomorrow.
Given that he has played in each of Arsenal’s 13 games this season and has played the third-most minutes (1,051) of any player on Mikel Arteta’s team behind Granit Xhaka (1,078) and Gabriel Magalhaes (1,000), the 21-year-old is likely overdue for a break (1,080).
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Emile Smith Rowe’s continued absence due to groin surgery presents an opportunity for someone else, most likely Reiss Nelson, to make a claim to a spot on the left flank.
If the Gunners defeat the Eredivisie team, they will advance to the following round of the competition.
The Gunners enter the contest in the best shape in England, if not the entire world, having won nine of their first ten Premier League games in addition to all of their current European games.
Mikel Arteta will be sure that his team will be back to its free-flowing best at the Emirates despite nervous 1-0 victories against Bodo/Glimt and Leeds United in their last two games.
In actuality, Arteta did not entirely exclude Zinchenko and Martinelli from facing PSV. The latter of the two was unwell on Wednesday and skipped training. No, they haven’t been decided, he responded, adding that we’ll determine tomorrow.
center-half for Arsenal U-18 U-18 Kacurri took part in Wednesday’s training session, while Edwards missed Tuesday’s U-21 match against Northampton Town because he is anticipated to be part of the team on Thursday.
The Gunners know that a victory over PSV will put them in a great position to capture first place in Group A going into the encounter that was originally slated to take place a few weeks ago. Prior to the rematch in Holland in eight days, Arsenal will travel to Southampton on Sunday.