Ethan Nwaneri could miss 10 Arsenal matches as Mikel Arteta delivers injury update

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has confirmed that Ethan Nwaneri volition beryllium missing for a fewer weeks with the muscular wounded helium sustained successful Saturday's 1-1 Premier League draw with Brighton & Hove Albion.

The 17-year-old became the archetypal Gunners subordinate to people much than 1 Premier League extremity earlier turning 18 astatine the Amex Stadium - and conscionable the sixth overall - but helium was past withdrawn astatine fractional clip for Gabriel Martinelli.

Nwaneri had picked up a yellowish paper for time-wasting successful first-half wounded time, and the archetypal presumption was that Arteta substituted him to debar the hazard of a imaginable sending-off successful the 2nd half.

However, the Gunners brag confirmed aft the stalemate that Nwaneri had sustained a muscular problem, and the afloat grade of the contented has present been revealed up of Tuesday's EFL Cup semi-final archetypal limb with Newcastle United.

Speaking to reporters successful his pre-game property conference, Arteta said: "Unfortunately helium has picked up an wounded and is going to beryllium retired for a fewer weeks. It's a muscular injury."

Which Arsenal matches volition Ethan Nwaneri miss?

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Arteta unsurprisingly did not enactment an estimated comeback day connected Nwaneri's recovery, but his "few weeks" admittance denotes that the winger volition astir apt beryllium missing for astatine slightest a period and perchance longer.

If the teen does not marque his instrumentality until aboriginal February arsenic expected, determination is simply a accidental that helium could miss arsenic galore arsenic 10 Arsenal games, starting with Tuesday's sojourn of Newcastle and the FA Cup third-round gathering with Manchester United connected January 12.

The Gunners volition besides person to header without Nwaneri for the North London derby astatine location to Tottenham Hotspur connected January 15, arsenic good arsenic clashes with Aston Villa, Dinamo Zagreb, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Girona aboriginal successful the month.

The sojourn of Manchester City to the Emirates connected February 2 mightiness besides travel excessively soon for Nwaneri, who is besides astatine hazard of missing the 2nd limb of the EFL Cup semi-final with Newcastle 3 days aft that.

The England younker planetary would besides beryllium a uncertainty for immoderate imaginable FA Cup fourth-round crippled connected February 8, though determination is seemingly a bully accidental that helium volition beryllium acceptable to instrumentality distant to Leicester City connected February 15.

Could Arsenal person immoderate wounded boosts for Newcastle clash?

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Nwaneri joins Bukayo Saka (hamstring), Raheem Sterling (knee), Ben White (knee) and Takehiro Tomiyasu (knee) connected the sidelines, portion Kai Havertz's information is besides up successful the aerial owed to illness.

The German attacker has sat retired Arsenal's past 2 games with a bug, and aft expressing anticipation that Havertz would beryllium acceptable to look Brighton lone for him to miss out, Arteta offered a much cautious update connected his fittingness connected Monday.

"I anticipation so, but I don't privation to accidental yes due to the fact that past clip I said helium would beryllium acceptable and helium wasn't fit," the Spaniard added, earlier confirming that Sterling should beryllium backmost successful contention "very soon".

The Gunners are guaranteed to person 1 boost for Tuesday's archetypal leg, arsenic right-back Jurrien Timber is disposable again aft serving a Premier League suspension successful the clash with Brighton.

On the different hand, Newcastle cannot telephone upon Bruno Guimaraes oregon Fabian Schar, some of whom are banned for the archetypal limb connected relationship of picking up their 2nd bookings of the 2024-25 EFL Cup successful the quarter-finals.

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