Arsenal appear to be facing #yetanotherinjurycrisis ahead of tomorrow’s Champions League clash with Monaco, with Jurrien Timber and Thomas Partey both absent from this afternoon’s open training session at London Colney.
There’s been no official update on why the duo were missing – it could be precautionary given their injury records – but their absence is far from ideal, especially as they’ve been covering full-back roles amid a growing injury list.
Ben White and Takehiro Tomiyasu remain sidelined with knee problems, Oleksandr Zinchenko picked up an issue after playing an hour against Manchester United last Wednesday, and neither Riccardo Calafiori nor Gabriel Magalhães has been seen since the 5-2 win over West Ham on 30 November.
While Calafiori and Big Gabi are thought to be nearing returns, they, like Zinchenko, missed training today.
If none are available tomorrow, Mikel Arteta faces a serious selection headache. Myles Lewis-Skelly and Kieran Tierney – who hasn’t played for Arsenal since the 2022/23 season -are options at left-back, while youngster Josh Nicholls could step up on the right after gaining Carabao Cup experience.
Arsenal currently sit seventh out of 36 sides in the Champions League group phase and are seeking a win that consolidates their chances of avoiding a knockout stage play-off in the new year.
FFS!
Fractured Fullback Syndrome
I just have this weird feeling that we”re going to make it to the final
….then it’s 50/50
80/20 if we have a fully fit squad, maybe an Arshavin prime type of signing in January
Hmmm, that would be tasty
Me too, it looks like a year we are frustrated in the league but go far in CL winning difficult games one after another.
This is rather shit.
Dearly hoping our defence all come back in time for the crazy Christmas run. Or at least half of them, please.
While our style has changed, it feels very similar to the latter wenger years where we can only imagine the outcome of a fully fit squad.
fullback is a curse right now as we have almost no injuries for players who haven’t played fb at all… is just gabriel and all the fullbacks injured?
The fact that even player who plays left back and right back us and gets injured is not a coincidence anymore. There must be a link to our fitness, tactics, and training requirements. To have Party, Ben White, Zinchenko, Califiori, Timber, Tomi, Tierney all injured at some point is just not a coincidence anymore. We must look into this
Did Tierny got injured playing for the Arsenal?
Did you make such comment last season when we had a stable defence?
Get a grip. It is just pure bad luck.
This post shows you would make a good pundit. Squeezing a narrative out of mere coincidences seems to be your forte.
WE MUST LOOK INTO THIS.
> looks into this.
Oh.
What’s Juan Maldondo Duarte up to?
I’m not so sure about the need anymore to bring in a striker* in January as we might actually need to get a couple of full-backs instead….
(*And a striker of course….)
And when all the injured full-backs are back to fitness, what do you do with them?
Everyone should calm down and stop overreacting.
TP5 and Timber almost inevitable they would run into trouble. I think we need to start making use of Tierney, and if he breaks he breaks.
I suspect they picked their new injuries because MA played them out of position.
Their turns, movement and other biomechanical actions are going to go against their natural position if they played out of position.
That was exactly what caused Timber’s ACL last season.
MA should start playing players in the right positions. The worst that can happen is we lose or tie a game (which the odds is less if players play in their natural position), but our injuries will be less.
Is there any evidence that playing out of position increases injury? By evidence, I mean either some statistical data showing it happens or an explanation by experts in sport medicine of why it could be true. I’m not asking for definitive proof that you are correct–just something that takes it out of the realm of bullshit.
i am not aware but it never makes sense having players out of position. on the fulham goal, I could tell you they were going to score. ESR’s pass cut 7 of our players out of the game. JT looked like a fish out of water, caught in no man’s land, in a central position. He was way ahead of Kiwior, Kiwior who was goal sided to Jimenez, was running back sideways, rather than in a straight line, perhaps hopelessly trying to intercept the pass rather than making sure he showed Jimenez out. Saliba reached the area and refused to… Read more »
and to top it up, JT was by then jogging back to our goal.
Is that how JT and TP got injured?
Yeah, I was talking about injuries.
WTF! A professional athlete trains to be flexible and able to turn, jump, run and walk in any direction and at any speed. Will y’all please stop with these conspiracy theories? Injuries happen in elite sports, and they’re unfortunate and by bad luck. Wish them quick recovery.
Apparently Lee Dixon is filling in at RB.
Well that is a red card waiting to happen.
FFS lets play KT and if he breaks he breaks, otherwise the injured players will not have enough time to recover properly;
It’s unfortunate to say the least our continuous injury problems in defence but we should have enough players to cope, I wouldn’t say we gave away the goal conceded v Fulham, we gave away the chance of conceding, a great finish as it was the ball did take a deflection that kept it low enough for Raya to have no chance, after that we defended well, lets face it we controlled the game, it’s up front we had problems, Miki usually gets it right but in this game his selection of Tross over Martinelli, Merano starting over Jorginho, bringing on… Read more »
How can there be so many injuries in our defense? Obviously we have injury riddled players like Zinchenko and Tomiyasu on the roster still and Timber is playing a lot of minutes after being out almost all of last year, but Calafiori in and out of the lineup hurts and missing Gabriel is always a big issue since he has such a strong partnership with Saliba and we don’t have anyone in reserve that is near the level of those two. Saliba is the one of all of our defenders that have played regularly that hasn’t been injured (Kiwior is… Read more »
This injury of a thing is getting serious.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I think Big Gabi had concussion, he was staggering after that punch and couldn’t stand up. He also had another injury, so not surprised he’s out. All these injuries are becoming a nightmare now. Most of these players have been playing non-stop for club and country and are at breaking point. Arsenal aren’t in the stupid Club World Cup so I hope the club gives these guys a proper summer off without a massive international tour. Keep it nearer home, bring back the Emirates Cup and let the players rest.