Mikel Arteta Backs Eberechi Eze To Make Impact On Arsenal Debut At Liverpool

Mikel Arteta has backed Eberechi Eze to make an belief connected his debut arsenic Arsenal hole to look Liverpool connected Sunday without respective key attacking players including Bukayo Saka.

The England guardant will miss nan travel to Anfield aft picking up a hamstring wounded against Leeds past Saturday, though Arteta was hopeful Saka could beryllium backmost aft nan world break. The Arsenal head besides confirmed Kai Havertz had undergone room connected a troublesome knee problem that will support him retired for respective weeks. Martin Ødegaard and Leandro Trossard are awesome doubts for nan crippled against nan champions.

Ødegaard was named successful Norway’s squad for their World Cup qualifiers but has not trained since sustaining a enarthrosis wounded successful nan 5-0 triumph complete Leeds.

Arteta said location was a chance nan Arsenal skipper could play against Liverpool but believes Eze, who scored winners for Crystal Palace astatine Anfield successful April 2024 and successful May’s FA Cup last against Manchester City, is eager to make an effect aft his presence for a fee worthy up to £67.5m past weekend.

“I deliberation he’s nan type of subordinate that loves those scenarios and those moments,” he said. “I deliberation nan infinitesimal he starts to play, we will spot really nan squad will respond and what connections will flourish from his interventions. I’m very assured that he’s played successful nan convention for truthful galore years.

“We person to put him successful nan positions and scenarios wherever he tin present those moments which are nan logic why we brought him here: to springiness america thing different, thing unexpected, and we will accommodate to much what is basal arsenic we cognize nan result of that is really big.”

Arsenal are successful precocious talks pinch Bayer Leverkusen complete an statement to motion Piero Hincapié connected an first indebtedness that includes an responsibility to make nan woody imperishable adjacent year, pinch nan Ecuador defender’s imaginable presence – nan club’s eighth of nan summertime – expected to let nan Polish defender Jakub Kiwior to subordinate Porto connected akin terms.

Ben White and Christian Nørgaard are besides struggling to beryllium disposable for nan Liverpool crippled arsenic Arsenal’s wounded concerns person continued from past season, erstwhile they were without Saka, Ødegaard and Havertz for lengthy spells.

Arteta revealed that Arsenal had been looking into why they person been dealing pinch truthful galore absences and said they were “continually monitoring and evolving nan needs of nan players and nan schedule”.

He said Saka’s repeated problems were a large concern. The guardant was retired for much than 3 months aft room connected his correct hamstring successful December and has picked up nan latest wounded successful his different leg.

“He does not request surgery,” said Arteta. “It’s not arsenic bad arsenic nan erstwhile one. He felt something, truthful he will beryllium retired for a mates of weeks. But it is evidently a concern, a large one, particularly erstwhile we talk astir a sprinter and a subordinate that gets into that area very often successful a shot match, who needs that burst, that alteration of hit of gait to beryllium arsenic threatening arsenic possible.

“But we will study again arsenic to why it happened and make him stronger. Unfortunately injuries are portion of a career. He hasn’t had that galore to beryllium adjacent pinch nan magnitude of games that he has played astatine his property but it is thing that we want to eradicate.”