10 Arsenal matches Bukayo Saka could miss as Mikel Arteta confirms injury hammer blow
10 Arsenal matches Bukayo Saka could miss as Mikel Arteta confirms injury hammer blow
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Arsenal are due to be without Bukayo Saka for a number of weeks, with manager Mikel Arteta working out a plan to keep winning without the England star. Saka was forced off during the first half of Arsenal's win at Crystal Palace on Saturday, where Gabriel Jesus scored two of the team's five goals. "It's not looking good, he's going to be out for many weeks," Arteta told reporters ahead of the team's next match against Ipswich.
"I’m putting some ideas together [to deal with the absence]," he added. "I haven’t got there yet but I have a few. I want to speak with them as well and take it in a positive way. "It means we’re going to be different. We went through the period with Martin [Odegaard] and the period with five, six defenders missing. We’re looking at it with positive energy.".
An absence of a few weeks can mean different times at different stages of the season, but this just so happens to be one of the busiest periods for Arsenal. If Saka is absent until the end of January, that will mean he misses 10 games in all competitions.
The first three of those all fall within the space of eight days around the turn of the year. Ipswich visit the Emirates Stadium on December 27, with Arsenal kicking off 2025 with trips to Brentford on New Year's Day and Brighton three days after that.
