Arsenal’s injury troubles deepened on Sunday after Noni Madueke (23) was compelled off through the 1-1 draw with Manchester City on the Emirates. The winger, who has impressed since his £52m transfer from Chelsea, was withdrawn at half-time and is now present process evaluation on a knee drawback, in accordance to Sky Sports.
Madueke had been one in all Arsenal’s liveliest performers within the opening 45 minutes, testing Gianluigi Donnarumma with a pointy effort on the close to publish and stretching City’s again line along with his direct working. But he signalled discomfort early within the sport, and by the interval was seen pointing to his proper knee earlier than making his approach down the tunnel with a membership physio.
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“He had an issue very early in the match and he wasn’t well enough to continue,” defined Mikel Arteta afterwards. His substitute, Bukayo Saka, marked his return from a hamstring layoff by slotting in on the correct flank, although the England worldwide remains to be constructing health.
The setback extends a worrying development for Arsenal, who’ve now misplaced at the very least one participant to injury in every of their Premier League fixtures this season. Kai Havertz, Martin Ødegaard, and William Saliba have all hung out sidelined, whereas Saka himself has solely simply re-emerged from his personal spell out.
Arteta is anticipated to present additional readability in Tuesday’s press convention forward of the Carabao Cup tie towards Port Vale. Arsenal resume league motion away to Newcastle subsequent weekend.
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