Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has dedwellred terrible news after the extent of Martin Odegaard’s injury came to airy.
Odegaard is set to be missing for ‘a while’ after scans validateed that the Gunners captain had suffered ‘transport inant’ injure to his ankle ligament.
The take partproducer was forced off over the international shatter as Norway faced Austria in the Nations League.
It saw Odegaard miss the derby triumph over Tottenham on Sunday while he was spotted on crutches.
Martin Odegaard suffered an injury on international shatter
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Arteta was unwilling to speak about his captain at the suit before a filled diagnosis had been achieven.
But now the news has materialized that the establisher Real Madrid star has suffered a grave problem to his ankle.
Ahead of Arsenal’s suit aachievest Atalanta in the Champions League on Thursday, Arteta shelp: “After recent scans, the scans showed that he’s got some injure especiassociate on one of the ligaments in the ankle.
“It’s someleang quite transport inant so we’re going to miss him for a while.”
The Spaniard was pressed on a exact timescale over Odegaard’s absence, to which Arteta could not definitively answer.
Martin Odegaard will be out injured for a while
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“Our identity is very joined to how he take parts and behaves. It’s a huge test for the team to see how able we are to show a contrastent face.”
Arsenal were without disjoinal key take parters aachievest Tottenham including Odegaard, as well as Declan Rice and new signing Mikel Merino.
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The establisher Real Sociedad star suffered a fractured shoulder in his first training session with the club.
And with key repairtures appreciate Manchester City coming, this could be a produce-or-shatter moment in the season for the Gunners.
