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Injuries. The Bane Of Mikel arsenal‘S Life. The Bane Of Arsenal‘S Very Existence Over the Last Year.
It’s not too preposterous to the suggestive That Them Last Season, The Gunners Would Have Secured The Title Over Liverpool.
Arteta Is Certainly Not One To Make Excuses When The Treatment Table But The Fact Of The Matter is, Thain Missed Gabriel, Kai Haverna and Chiefly, Major Hamstring Injuries.
Combine That With That Martin Odegaard‘S Ankle Problem a year ago and they were, if you pardon the pun, Severeless by Hamstrung’s Events That Played Out.
Fast Forward to the Current Campaign and Despite Injecting Nearly £ 300m Into The Player Squad, adding more depth to Arta’s Ranks, They Are Feeling The Effects of It Again.
Haverntz has been out of Since August, William Saliba has been missed a Few Games and saka endured Another Little Niggle of His Own Too. That’s Without mento-madueke, saka’s backup, who is injured out of the also.
So, When Odegaard Limped From The Field During Their 2-0 Win Over West Ham Last Weekend, You Could Hear The Drones Inside The Emirates Stadium.
The Latest on Martin Odegaard’s Injury
This has been a participant troubling year for the arsenal skipper. During An Early-Season International Break Last Term, He suffered Ankle Injay While Playing for Norway and He’s arguably not the Same.
That Problem Kept The Skipper Out for A Few Months and Even When He Did Return, There Was A Sense That The Arsenal Midfielder didn’t feel comfortable. He didn’t trust His ankle enough to Strike Through The Ball Cleanly When Taking Shots. It also impacted HIS PLAYMAKING Ability.
The Numbers Below Rubberstamp That Fact. From 2023/24 to 2024/25, His Base Numbers Were Down On What You Would Expect.
Odegaard’s Last Two PL Seasons | ||
|---|---|---|
Stat | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
Games | 35 | 30, 30 |
Goals | 8 | 3 |
Assists | 10 | 8 |
Conversion Rate | 17.02% | 10% |
Chances Created * | 3 | 2.4 |
Duels won * | 3.7 | 2.9 |
* = per 90-minute statistics | ||
It’s Typical, Therefore, That AS Soon As Odegaard Began to Find His Form again, He was wrruck down by Another injury.
In The Brief Glimpses We’ve Seen Of The Former Real Madrid Man This Season, There Have Been Promising Signs, No Less So Than Against Olympiacos in the Champions League.
During Arsenal’s 2-0 Win, The Norwegian Ran The Show, Supplying The Pre-Assist for Gabriel Martinelli’s Opener and Then Carving Open The Defense to Assist Saka’s Late Strike.
It was Vintage Odegaard But Was Injured Again, Sparking Fears That Could Could Be A Jack Wilsere Situation All over Again.
Indeed, Against West Ham Last Weekend, He Hobbled off The Third Successive League Match, Creating a Little Bit of History in The Process. Worryingly, He became The First Player in Premier League History to Be Sumitted in The First Half Of Three Consecutive fixtures.
So, What’s The Problem? Well, He Left The Emirates Wearing a Brace on His Knee Last Week and Subsequent Scans Showed That Suffered Medial Collateral Ligament Injury. As A Result, he pulled out of Norway’s fixtures over the ongoing break.
A receptive time of Return has not yet been reveealed, Sparking Fears That Odegaard Could Be Out for Weeks.
How Arsenal Can Solve Their Odegaard Injury Blow
The Most Likely Solution for Arsenal Will Be Set Set. Signed in The Summer, It was Widely Expected That The Mega-Money £ 67.5m Arrival Would play out on The Left-Hand Side.
After all, Arteta Required Upgrades On The Likes of Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard and He’d Signed One Here.
Yet, Ezen’s Initial Performances on The Left Lack A Bit of Sparkle. They were Solid Enough But It Was He Was Playing In A Role He Doesn’t Enjoy Quite AS Much. Against Bilbao in the Champions League, He produced Just One Key Pass, Down His 2024/25 Seasonal Average 1.7 While Playing More Centrally Crystal Palace.
It’s in That Central Role Where is featured Across Arsenal’s Last Three Games. The Difference has been noticeable.
Heighted the net Against Port Vale and Then Versus Newcastle, He desperately Unlucky Not to Score A Couple, Denied by Nick Pope fabulously on Two Occasions. Against West Ham, Supporters were Cruelly Robed Him Line Up Anguard Odegaard Very Long When The Latter Went Off.
The Scorer of 14 goals and the Provider of 11 Assists Last Season, The England International is Certainly The Most Obvious Candidate to Replace Odegaard.
Yet, in Two Hale End Gems, Arteta Has Two More Luxurious Options: Ethan Nwaneri, Who Played Regularly In The Odegaard Role During the Pre-Season and The Generational Max Dowman.
It’s unlikely that dowman is a Start But This Feels Like Ideal Opportunity to Give The 15-year-Old Game Time in a role Where the Club Envisions His Future.
To Date, The Sparkling Teenager has been on the first-team Level on the Right Flank, Starring in Pre-Season Whence HE Penalty Against Newcastle, Before Featuring 27 Minutes in Premier League action from That Role.
Dowman May Not Have Many League Minutes Just Made a big Impact, Becoming’s Second-Youngest player in The Division’s History and Win Over Leeds.
AS Mikel Merino commented Earlier this year, The Youngster is Already “unbelievable”. Fellow Midfielder Declan Rice Start Waxed Lyrical. “I’ve Never Seen a 15-year-old So Comfortable Around The First Team, It’s Insane.” Quite.
What Dowman is Doing Is Not Normal. Not Even Nwaneri Burst Onto The Scene in Such a way. He was 15 When he debuted but had to wait to wait another feed years for regular opportunities. This Kid is Already Getting Them. Do We Have Another Lamine on Yamal Hands?
Youngest Players in Pl History | |
|---|---|
Player | Age |
1. Ethan Nwaneri | 15 Years, 5 months |
2. Max Dowman | 15 Years, 7 months |
3. Jeremy as | 15 Years, 8 months |
4. Harvey Elliott | 16 Years, 1 month |
5. Matthew Briggs | 16 Years, 2 months |
Expectations must be tempered and we must be cautious here. Merino’s Next comment was to remind Everyone, “He’s Only 15, So Obviously He has Has Many Things to Learn.”
But what Makes This Young Starlet So Special? Well, He’s got the Ability to Score and Assist at Will, Netting 19 in 23 Last Season and Creating Five Goals. Meanwhile, His Ability to Glide Past Players Ease has already made Him a target defenders.
Date Analyst Ben Mattinson Outlines How The teen is allready “Foul Magnet” and That’s Something Arteta Start Picked Up.
Commenting on Dowman’s Development Earlier This Season, “He’s So’s Used to It (Being Kicked by Defende Deal With It And My Teammates Probably to Defend Me, And I Will Playing.”
So, While The Hale End Prodigy Is Unlikely to the While Odegaard is injured, Arteta Must USE an opportunity to Give Further Minutes to The Club’s Biggest Academy Talent.
