Mikel Arteta has confirmed that Bukayo Saka is going through ‘many weeks’ out after the Arsenal winger injured his hamstring at Crystal Palace.
Saka was substituted within the first half of the membership’s 5-1 win at Selhurst Park on Saturday night. Arsenal’s worst fears have been confirmed with Saka going through an prolonged spell on the sidelines. It’s an enormous blow to the membership’s title hopes, with Saka having produced 15 targets and assists in 16 league appearances this season.
“It’s not trying good. He’s going to be out for a lot of weeks,” Arteta stated at a press convention forward of Arsenal’s Boxing Day conflict with Ipswich.
Requested if he feared Saka would miss the remainder of the season, Arteta added: “No [there’s no fear]. I’m very optimistic he’ll be again earlier than the top of the season.”
Arteta spoke on how Saka would deal with his absence with the 23-year-old having been an nearly ever-present since breaking into the Arsenal facet.
“[It’s] one other a part of the event of a participant. At some stage at this stage you’re going to get injured.
“Sadly badly. It may have been a lot worse. It may have been one thing else that may take you out for a 12 months.
“It’s the way you react to that, the way you overcome that scenario and it’s a fantastic studying course of for him as nicely.
“It’s what it’s. He’s injured, we can’t change it. We’re going to make use of this time now to assist him.”
The Spaniard additionally stated that he believes accidents to Saka and Declan Rice this season are a results of an excessive amount of soccer over the past two campaigns.
“It’s in all probability an accumulation of numerous seasons. Bukayo and Declan [Rice], they’ve performed over 130 video games in two seasons so what’s going to occur in the second, the third one, the fourth one? If that continues the identical means, it’s in all probability unsustainable.
“And we now have to seek out methods to bodily flip them into monsters. That they’ll address something. The truth that you play and get better will not be sample since you don’t prepare. And the physique wants to coach. You begin to lose loads of components within the bodily facet that’s key to efficiency.
“That’s a problem which, OK, we’re looking for methods to do it.”
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