Mikel Arteta says Arsenal are caught in a “actually harmful circle” with accidents – however denied they’re a results of overtraining.
Arsenal have suffered accidents to a lot of key gamers all through the season and shall be with out midfielder Declan Rice, defender William Saliba and ahead Leandro Trossard for the match in opposition to Membership Brugge within the league section of the Champions League on Wednesday.
Trossard, who scored within the loss to Aston Villa on the weekend, solely simply returned from damage however was introduced off earlier than the top of the sport regardless of solely being launched as a second-half substitute.
Arsenal are nonetheless with out ahead Kai Havertz and defenders Gabriel Magalhaes and Cristhian Mosquera, whereas striker Viktor Gyokeres is simply coming back from damage.
The Gunners have additionally made a change to their Champions League squad due to damage, with Gabriel Jesus, who has been out since January after cruciate ligament surgical procedure, changing 15-year-old Max Dowman – who picked up his damage taking part in for Arsenal Below-21s in a pleasant in opposition to Manchester United on Saturday.
However when requested if overtraining was the reason for the issues, Arteta rejected the thought.
“No, as a result of we do not practice.” Arteta mentioned referring to the brief turnaround between video games at this level within the season earlier than saying his aspect skilled for “20 minutes” on Tuesday.
“We do not have time to coach. So coaching is just not there however clearly the truth that you’re lacking gamers, you’re loading different gamers extra [as] a consequence. It is a actually harmful circle that one.”
Arsenal additionally needed to take care of long-term accidents to Havertz and Bukayo Saka final season, whereas centre-back Gabriel missed an essential couple of months on the finish of the final marketing campaign.
And Arteta mentioned that alongside the Arsenal medical staff he was at all times wanting on the causes for the accidents they endure.
“A few of the gamers have performed over 150 video games in two seasons so it begins to get overloaded. You begin to ask them repeatedly and once more to try this [and] in some unspecified time in the future they may break down,” he mentioned.
“It is one thing that we’re always taking a look at. We now have performed loads of video games with loads of gamers lacking that places loads of stress after which extra accidents however we’re on it.
“I am actually blissful what we’re doing by way of the medical stuff and every part that we are attempting to convey collectively, however typically as properly we’d like some issues to go on our aspect.”
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