Arteta reveals injury worry for Nwaneri after youngster was forced off against Brighton | OneFootball

Mikel Arteta says youngster Ethan Nwaneri could be set for a spell out with injury after being forced off against Brighton.

Nwaneri opened the scoring for the Gunners in their 1-1 draw with Brighton, before having to be replaced at half-time.

“Unfortunately I think we’ve lost him as well, so it’s another one, but we carry on,” Arteta said after the game.

“I don’t know (what the injury is), it was a muscular thing, so we had to take him out.”

Kai Havertz again missed out having suffered with illness lately, while Martin Odegaard was only well enough to make the bench against Brighton.

“Kai tried but he was very honest and said he cannot even travel, he wasn’t feeling good at all,” Arteta said.

“We tried yesterday to see if he could train. He tried his best and he wasn’t able to do that.

“Martin didn’t train. He said let me not train and I’ll see how I feel tomorrow and he did his best to be here because we know the numbers that we had.”