“We have players who have been injured and who have played 130 games in the last two seasons, so in the end it’s an accident waiting to happen if you continue to load and load,” said Arteta.
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says Kai Havertz’s hamstring injury was an “accident waiting to happen” given the workload players are under.
The schedule of two games a week took its toll on the players, with Arteta revealing it limited the amount of time they can train.
Havertz is the third Arsenal forward to suffer a hamstring injury in the last three months, with Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli also struck down.
“That’s the problem, so the muscle is undertrained and when you expose the muscle and the tendon to an exposure that they cannot absorb, because the tendon needs 72 hours to recover, so a lot of people talk about what are we doing outside?.
