Mikel Arththa reiterated that Arsenal Wingsers Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli are very likely to return after an international break in March, not before.
The huge attack of Arsenal, which also lacks Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus, failed to find a network in consecutive games of the Premier League against West Ham United and Nottingham Forest.
Saka has yet to play in 2025 after being undergoing surgery in December due to a torn knee injury, and Martinelli has recently excluded a less serious problem. The expectation for a while was that the international break at the end of next month, with Arsenal to return to the game in April, was an opportunity to return the wide couple to the field.
Asked after Forest downtime on Wednesday night If there was a chance for Saka and Martinelli before the international break, Artet’s answer was clear: “I don’t think so, no.”
When it comes to discussing their availability after club football continued after the vacation, Arthtea did not offer any guarantee, but it still seems as a whole.
“Let’s see how they develop in the next few weeks to make the right steps. Then, after that … they were long, long, so we will have to integrate them, probably gradually. So they develop well, but they are still a little far away,” the boss explained.
“We have a meeting [on Thursday] Talk about where they are, especially Gabi. Probably a chance before Bukayo came in, but how fast it is, we will have to see how it goes in next week or ten days. “
Arteta They also offered updates about Ethan Nwaneri and Riccard Calafiori, both withdrawn against the forest, and a little care of the whole.
Nwaneri was “cramps from a minute 45, so we stretched it as much as we could, but we can’t lose the player and he was really tired.”
In the meantime, Calafiori did not return to the second half was tactically, not associated with injuries: “I took it [off] Because in the second minute he got yellow. Had one or two situations that had defended [Callum] Hudson-Odoi and we couldn’t play with ten men anymore. “
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