Bukayo Saka will be out for \"many weeks\" with the hamstring injury he suffered in the first half of Arsenal\'s 5-1 win at Crystal Palace. Saka tore his hamstring.
Gabriel Martinelli will likely play on the right of Arsenal\'s attack with Leandro Trossard taking his place on the left.
“I’m putting some ideas together. I haven’t got there yet but I have a few,” Mikel Arteta said. “I want to speak with them as well to understand how we are going to generate that and take it in a positive way. It means we’re going to be different.
“We went through the period with Martin [Ødegaard] and the period with five, six defenders missing. We’re looking at it with positive energy.”
Saka has previously had two other hamstring injuries this season. Arteta believes Saka\'s workload has contributed to the injury as he\'s only missed seven Premier League matches in the last three-and-a-half seasons.
“It’s probably the accumulation of all the seasons,” he admitted. “For example, Bukayo and Declan [Rice] played over 130 games in the past two seasons, so what’s going to happen in the third one and the fourth one if that continues in that way? Probably it’s unsustainable. Unless we find ways to physically turn them into monsters who can cope with anything.
“The fact that you train and recover, that’s not a good pattern because the body needs to train, the muscle needs to train. If you just play and recover you start to lose a lot of factors in your body that are key to physical performance. Not just to play not to get injured, but to become a better athlete which is very different and keep evolving as an athlete. That’s a challenge, but OK we’re going to do it.”