Arsenal have one other downside forward that Mikel Arteta might want to take care of. Photograph by Alex Pantling/Getty Pictures
Accidents and suspensions to key gamers have already derailed the possibility for Arsenal to construct up a head of steam this season, and there are extra issues on the horizon for Mikel Arteta and his squad.
Ethan Nwaneri’s contribution to the Gunners Carabao Cup win over Preston noticed the teen achieve some plaudits from his supervisor, but it surely’s that win which goes to trigger points.
Extra issues forward for Arsenal and Mikel Arteta
That’s due to the fixture congestion which can finally outcome from Arsenal heading into the latter stage of the competitors and Arsenal Girls’s Champions League tie in opposition to Bayern Munich.
The latter tie will happen on Wednesday 18th December on the Emirates Stadium, with the boys’s group taking part in the earlier weekend in opposition to in opposition to Everton and the next weekend in opposition to Crystal Palace.
Additionally they meet the Eagles within the Carabao Cup quarter finals, however this recreation has been pencilled in by the EFL for Tuesday seventeenth December.
The recognition of the ladies’s recreation usually has seen crowds swell to document numbers previously couple of seasons, and Arsenal are understood to have already made the choice that every one of their girls’s Champions League video games could be performed on the Emirates this 12 months, fairly than their regular residence of Meadow Park – which wouldn’t meet UEFA necessities in any occasion.
What’s additionally complicating the difficulty is that Crystal Palace’s recreation in opposition to Brighton has been chosen for the TV on Monday sixteenth December.
The Day by day Mail counsel that it might be moved again a day however that’s nonetheless unlikely to present the South Londoners sufficient relaxation earlier than they’d play the Gunners, probably on that Tuesday.
With no answer but arrived at, it may properly be the brand new 12 months earlier than the cup recreation in opposition to Palace will get performed, and that won’t even swimsuit Arsenal both.
