Arsenal have been struck with an enormous damage blow earlier than their journey to Chelsea within the Premier League this lunchtime after supervisor Mikel Arteta revealed some “dangerous information” over one among his most dependable stars…
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Versatile defender Takehiro Tomiyasu was compelled off with an damage through the Gunners’ 1-0 win over FC Zurich within the Europa League on Thursday. The Japan full-back changed Ben White within the second half however limped off minutes earlier than full-time.
Talking by way of the membership’s official web site, the Spaniard stated:
“We don’t know [what the issue is]. He felt one thing and we didn’t need to take any dangers. With the quantity of video games that we’re taking part in, it’s a part of it. It may occur in coaching, it might probably occur in video games and sadly, it occurred to Tomi right this moment,” he later added:
“It is rather tough to get the stability and to get the proper performances and win matches, and resting some gamers and retaining them recent is all the time difficult, we’ve tried to do our greatest. At present we had dangerous information with Tomiyasu, however I believe for the remaining it has labored fairly properly.”
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Massive blow for Arteta
The 23-year-old machine was largely a bit-part participant initially of the brand new top-flight marketing campaign, having picked up an damage throughout pre-season, however in latest outings, he has began at left-back within the absence of Oleksandr Zinchenko, even with Kieran Tierney match at instances.
Certainly, Tomiyasu has began 4 straight matches within the position, during which Arsenal have remained unbeaten and that features a formidable 3-2 win over Liverpool, in addition to clear sheets towards Leeds United and Nottingham Forest.
The Japanese “warrior” – within the phrases of ex-teammate Mitchell Dijks – is a right-back by commerce and can even play centrally too, making him an integral and priceless a part of Arteta’s squad.
Even with Zinchenko again in coaching, the £16m man would have nonetheless been in line to characteristic at Stamford Bridge. Not solely might or not it’s too quickly for the Ukraine gem however Arteta might have wished to rotate Ben White, who has performed the third-most minutes of any Gunners defender.
Tomiaysu proved towards the Reds, who completed second to Manchester Metropolis final time period, that he may ship towards the perfect, having pocketed Mohamed Salah in a “Cancelo-esque” vogue, as revealed by Soccer FanCast on the time, so his presence up towards Graham Potter’s wing-backs or the likes of Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz would have definitely been welcome.
As such, his possible absence this afternoon will come as a gutting setback to Arteta and the squad as they are going to be and not using a high quality possibility in defence, even when that’s one from the bench – simply because the Gunners boss says, it’s “dangerous information” on that entrance.
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