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Mikel Arteta has been dealt one other harm blow forward of their blockbuster conflict with Liverpool after Riccardo Calafiori limped off towards Shakhtar Donetsk.
The Gunners scraped to a 1-0 victory over the Ukrainian facet within the Champions League because of a Dmytro Riznyk personal objective, after the rebound of Gabriel Martinelli’s shot off the put up went in off his again.
Arsenal had been once more with out Bukayo Saka, who has missed the final two video games with a hamstring harm, whereas they are going to be with out the suspended William Saliba on Sunday after he was despatched off towards Bournemouth.
This victory got here with a value as Calafiori was pressured to go away the sector within the 72nd minute, leaving Arteta not sure if the defender will probably be accessible this weekend.
“Riccy, I don’t know, he felt one thing and couldn’t proceed enjoying so [it’s a] little bit of a fear,” he advised TNT Sports activities. Whereas speaking in his post-match press convention, Arteta added: “He needed to come off as a result of he felt one thing. I don’t know the extent of that. So, in that sense, not nice information.”
“I don’t know, sorry, [Saka] wasn’t in a position to practice but, in order that’s unlikely,” he added.
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Arsenal had been removed from their greatest, with Leandro Trossard seeing a spot-kick saved 13 minutes from time, whereas David Raya was known as into motion to protect their win with an enormous save.
It was a 3rd consecutive clear sheet within the Champions League, which is their first such run since retaining 4 beneath Arsene Wenger in November 2007.
They generated simply 1.8 anticipated objectives (xG) on Tuesday, having 13 photographs, with 5 of these on course, however Arteta was pleased with the response he noticed from his crew.
“More than happy with the consequence,” he stated. “All the time tough in Champions League.
“We should always’ve scored extra within the first half and the second half, I felt a little bit of fatigue. Taking part in 60 minutes with 10 males a number of days in the past is tough. We left the sport a bit open however we dug in for 3 factors.
“I don’t know if [the penalty miss] was associated to fatigue. Credit score to Shakhtar, they’re courageous.
“Whenever you give them time on the ball, and also you lose the ball, you’ll endure. I don’t know [why Kai Havertz didn’t take the penalty]. He is likely one of the takers, however Leo took it.”
