Arsenal fans will no doubt be keeping an eye on Gabriel Martinelli at the moment after news that he could be out for as long as a month due to a hamstring injury.
That’s what’s been reported by the Athletic after the Brazil international had to go off in the Carabao Cup semi-final defeat to Newcastle United in midweek.
Martinelli has been a key player for Arsenal, and Mikel Arteta is already short of options in attack due to Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus also being out for a long time.
See below as Martinelli posted from Dubai, where he’s clearly been deemed fit enough to join up with the rest of the squad…
Martinelli perhaps won’t be taking part in the team’s training sessions there, but was still able to come along for any team bonding exercises or tactical sessions.
How will Arsenal cope without Gabriel Martinelli?
Martinelli may not have been at his very best this season, but it’s still a big blow to lose him, especially when Arsenal are already struggling with other injuries.
Losing Martinelli while Saka and Jesus are also out means Arteta is relying only on Kai Havertz, Leandro Trossard, Raheem Sterling and Ethan Nwaneri as options in his front three.
For Havertz in particular, this means there’s going to be very little opportunity for him to rest, which could then further his risk of injury at some point.
Arsenal fans won’t be seeing Jesus again this season, but they’ll be keeping everything crossed that Saka and Martinelli can make it back soon.
Even if the Gunners have just been dealt the blow of being knocked out of the Carabao Cup semi-finals, there’s still plenty for them to play for in the final months of the season.
It’s gonna be tough but I trust our manager
rest havertz from what? we are out of both domestic cups. If a £65m player on £285k a week cannot play 2 matches a week maximum then he should be sold.
Look the fact is we needed a new striker in the summer window. we then lost jesus and saka (our main goals/assist threat) and still didnt react. Now Martinelli is also out, but at least he is not on crutches or needing surgery. So we are down to a front 3 of Nwaneri, Havertz and Trossard at best with Sterling, NBO and Kabia as back up.
The club are not as interested in winning trophies as the supporters and Media that is now obvious. Arteta knew that he done his season budget in the summer and even if we had got Watkins for £40m we would have had to sell someone to cover it or spread the payment terms over 4 years which Villa would never have agreed to. We could not even bring in a foreign player of any quality on loan because no one wants to let a player they rate leave on loan in January. We would not even let Tierney leave on loan and we have at least 5 players that can play left back ahead of him MLS Calafiori Timber Zinchenko Tomiyasu.