Key Highlights
- There was better news for Gabriel Jesus after the Brazil forward was added to Arsenal’s Champions League squad in place of Max Dowman, who injured his ankle at the weekend. Xabi Alonso fights for Madrid future in latest edition of modern classicRead moreThat is expected to rule the 15-year-old – who became the youngest player in the competition’s history last month – out of action for a few weeks, with Dowman the 95th injury Arsenal have picked up since the start of last season – the second highest amount in the Premier League.
- Defenders Cristhian Mosquera and Gabriel Magalhães are not likely to return until the new year, while Arteta revealed last week that Kai Havertz “still needs time” after knee surgery. Asked whether their injury record was down to bad luck, fatigue or intensity of training, the Arsenal manager said: “Training, no because we don’t have time to train.
- But obviously the fact that you are missing players, you are loading other players more, there’s a consequence to that and it’s a really dangerous circle that one.
- Some of the players have played over 150 games in two seasons so it starts to get overloaded.
- And you start to ask them again and again and again to do that, at some point they will break down.
