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Saka, Merino injury UPDATES | Mikel Arteta | Arsenal v Chelsea

Football

السنة2026

المدة14m

شاهد الآن

7.5

Mikel Arteta speaks to the media on the fitness of Bukayo Saka, Mikel Merino's foot injury and transfer deadline day ahead of Arsenal's Carabao Cup semi-final against Chelsea. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro. 00:04 - injuries: nothing new 00:26 - Bukayo: hip issue. We’ll see. 00:55 - Merino: He needs to go to a procedure. A big blow. 01:24 -Return this season?: A rare injury. We’ll see how he reacts to surgery. He’ll do everything to get back. 01:56 - pain for you?: Very important plants won’t have for the rest of the season. 02:10 - Change your feelings for deadline day?: Of course. 02:39 - Someone special to come in?: You have to bring in someone to improve the team and that isn’t easy. 03:03 - Less panic now?: Yes but we had less depth the last six months. 03:30 - Big weekend: we can only control what we can control. Last week we lost. Big congratulations to our women’s team as well. 04:00 - Paul merson comments: we need another 14 of those. We are very conscious of what we need to do. 04:40 - Treble: we go day by day. We have a tough competition against Chelsea to earn the right. 05:00 - players dreaming?: what we can control is the level. 05:29 - Deadline day life: We are always active in every window. We had Nwaneri to Marseille for the right reasons, now merino is out. My day will be busier. We’ll try to find a solution. 06:15 - Not replacing merino: We have to consider. 06:45 - Exploit Chelsea defence: Liam’s doing an incredible job. We need to make the home advantage concrete. 07:32 - First trophy in six years to come?: the next one is the most important. 08:16 - Eze: you have to impact the game consistently for 96 minutes. 08:49 - Central for Eze?: we had injuries on the left, centre and right. Just trying understand those relationships. 09:24 - Gyokeres: his all round performances have been more consistent. Understanding his runs has been better and he’s been more prolific. 09:54 - Missing ugly goals: Goals are goals. I know we’d prefer the beautiful ones on YouTube but they’re still the same. 10:24 - MLS in