We knew the game could go to extra time and we have to manage that and he looked okay.” “We decided to do that because we had to manage the subs, especially after the two windows that we had to use in the first half, but that was the plan and he was coming from an injury as well. Gabriel Jesus was replaced at half-time on Thursday - a substitution Mikel says was planned. He had some discomfort and could not carry on, so we had to take him off.” “Obviously, it’s very early and difficult to know. “Tomiyasu looks pretty serious, for his reaction straight away and what he said to me,” Mikel said in his post-Sporting press conference. Takehiro Tomiyasu and William Saliba were forced off with injury in the early stages of Thursday’s match against Sporting. The former Gunner will be replaced temporarily by Paddy McCarthy, who led first-team training ahead of the match and will manage our visitors on Sunday. Standing in our way are a Crystal Palace side who announced the departure of Patrick Vieira on Friday morning. We head into the weekend’s fixture aiming to become the first team in the capital to win nine derbies in the same season.Ī victory would take us eight points clear at the top of the Premier League, with Manchester City hosting Burnley in the FA Cup quarter-final. Our record in London derbies during 2022/23 has been nothing short of faultless. “It starts already now in the dressing room to recover well and change the focus, so that’s what we have to do.” “We have 11 finals to go and that’s it, that’s the main focus now,” Martin Odegaard told us after our penalty shoot-out defeat to Sporting CP.

After the disappointment of Thursday night’s Europa League exit, we have a quick opportunity to return to winning ways ahead of the international break when Crystal Palace visit Emirates Stadium on Sunday.

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