Mikel Arteta says he’s hopeful of getting defensive trio Gabriel, Riccardo Calafiori and Oleksandr Zinchenko again for Wednesday’s Champions League conflict with Monaco.
All three missed the 1-1 Premier League draw with Fulham, as William Saliba’s equaliser secured a degree for the Gunners following Raul Jimenez’s early opener.
Arsenal have been disrupted by defensive accidents this season however Arteta is hopeful he’ll quickly have his injured defenders again.
“I hope, however it’s extra a query for the medical doctors and physios to grasp the place we’re,” he mentioned.
“We’re lacking loads of gamers within the backline. The great factor is that no matter we put there they reply. They reply with a very good perspective and efficiency.”
Arteta fielded his ninth completely different again 4 mixture towards Fulham however Arteta was happy with how his facet tailored, together with central defender Jakub Kiwior, although admits not having consistency in his group choice is having a detrimental impression.
“We all know that when now we have consistency there how a lot it’s giving us,” he mentioned. “That’s a distinct season. It’s bringing completely different challenges. We’re attempting to face them and we’re going to proceed in that course.
And requested if his group missed Gabriel specifically, he continued: “Yeah however I’m actually happy with the efficiency of Jakub as nicely. We needed to change the entire unit.
“Jakub there and Jurrien on the left, they’ve by no means performed collectively and Thomas as a full-back. Okay, he got here in and he does it.
“Jorginho is available in and he was wonderful. That’s it, they aren’t obtainable. We’ve to reply to that and I’m very proud of the way in which they did it.”
