Mikel Arteta is worried about Martin Ødegaard's knee harm after the captain limped out of Arsenal's 2-0 win over West Ham as they stored up the stress on Liverpool on the prime of the Premier League.
The Norwegian left the Emirates Stadium along with his left knee in a brace after being taken off following a conflict with Crysencio Summerville earlier than the break. Declan Rice additionally needed to be withdrawn within the second half with a again harm after he opened the scoring towards his former membership, with the England midfielder a doubt for the video games towards Wales on Thursday and Latvia every week on Tuesday.
Nevertheless it was the situation of Ødegaard – who grew to become the primary participant in Premier League historical past to be substituted in three successive matches earlier than half-time, having beforehand been withdrawn towards Leeds and Nottingham Forest due to a shoulder harm – that's worrying the Arsenal supervisor essentially the most.
“He had a conflict knee-to-knee, and instantly he was uncomfortable,” stated Arteta, who marked his three hundredth sport in cost with a snug victory. “I simply spoke to him, he's not constructive about it, he's obtained a brace on. We'll have to attend and see from the medical doctors.
“We haven't had him because the begin of the season for one purpose or the opposite, the shoulder twice after which this harm. We'll discover options, however clearly he's our captain and is a participant that offers us a very completely different dimension with the issues that he can do, particularly in attacking. Let's wait, and hopefully it's not that dangerous.”
On Rice, he added: “He's not all proper as a result of he requested me to come back off, in order that's a disgrace. He had ache in his again and he couldn't stick with it, which is one thing very uncommon for Declan, so we'll should assess him and see how he's.”
Arsenal had misplaced their two earlier conferences with West Ham on the Emirates however Bukayo Saka, who scored a penalty within the second half to make the factors secure on his 2 hundredth Premier League look, stated they had been decided to make up for that. “It confirmed the progress we have now made,” he stated. “The final two seasons we slipped up at residence towards West Ham and we needed to place that proper at this time. We all know the standard we have now on the prime finish of the pitch and we all know if we maintain a clear sheet it's greater than probably we'll win the sport.”
Nuno Espírito Santo was taking cost of his second match for West Ham since succeeding Graham Potter and the east London membership stay within the relegation zone after this defeat. The previous Forest supervisor acknowledged that there's loads of work to do over the worldwide break.
“This week has been numerous new challenges, new issues, numerous modifications,” he stated. “I believe the worldwide break goes to be very helpful when it comes to settling down the thoughts and focus, however all of the features of the sport we have now to handle.”
