Even if a player does
n't pick up an injury when played constantly, they can still see a big dip in performance when tired.
Some of this can be put down to the usual Arsenal problem
of picking up an injury at the wrong time and this has also been the case in his international career.
Hopefully none of our players will
pick up an injury while on international duty and then we will want to carry on where we left off.
One of those could easily
pick up an injury with them having to play every game and every game a must win game.
The 22 year - old has come under fire this season, having failed to impress on the pitch
between picking up injuries, and has been linked with the exit door.
At least we did
not pick up an injury and still have plenty of games to qualify but this one was a nightmare.
A Daily Star report a few days ago suggested that Giroud would miss the game after
picking up an injury in training and limping out of the training ground on crutches.
Per Mertesacker was still a first choice centre back for Arsenal last season, however this year after
picking up an injury during pre-season, it seems like Mustafi's German compatriot may be set to lose his place in the team.
Potential replacement Reece Oxford has also
picked up an injury which opens the door for the more probable replacement James Collins and his silky passing skills.
So it is not just the match fitness and fatigue of Alexis that our manager is worried about, as there is an increased risk of Alexis
picking up an injury as well and that really would be a hammer blow to our title hopes.
At the same time Arsene Wenger is having to cope without Per Mertesacker, Gabriel, Danny Welbeck and Carl Jenkinson and the report does not even mention our Welsh international Aaron Ramsey
who picked up an injury in our first game of the season and was supposed to be coming back after the international break but had his return to action put back as we reported here at Just Arsenal.
Arsenal are facing a defensive problems at the moment after Laurent Koscielny is still not fully fit despite playing against Watford on Saturday and Skhodran Mustafi being sidelined for a least a fortnight after
picking up an injury whilst in international duty with Germany.
Santi Cazorla is another one who can be fielded more advanced, and was a huge loss for us
when picking up an injury last term.
City had the good news that captain Vincent Kompany had not actually
picked up an injury last week, despite concerns that he had.
The Czech international captain's contract ran out in July, but had been training at Arsenal's London Colney while he regained fitness after
picking up an injury at the European Championships in France.
Debuchy admits that it has been very frustrating to
pick up this injury so early in his Arsenal career, but he is also confident that he will come back strongly, declaring that the quality of players in the Arsenal squad and training them was already helping to make him a better player.
Ritchie de Laet has had an extremely slow start in his career at Aston Villa after joining on August of 2016 but only being able to make 3 appearances
before picking up an injury which left him out of the pitch for around 10 months.
The right - back has been out of action since
picking up an injury on loan with West Ham in January, but returned last week in our Under - 23's match against Southampton on Friday.
The right - back joined the Gunners from Newcastle in the summer of 2014, and was enjoying a first - team role
until picking up an injury in September, which allowed Hector Bellerin to star in his place.
The Spaniard
picked up an injury back in October, which was originally only supposed to keep him out for a matter of weeks, and is now set to miss the rest of the campaign, and we have yet to find a partnership worthy of holding down a regular spot in our first - team.
Arsenal midfielder Santi
Cazorla picked up an injury during Sunday's 1 - 1 draw at Norwich City, but that didn't stop the Spaniard becoming to first player to make 1,000 Premier League passes this season.
We are also claimed to hold an interest in signing Wilfried Bony and Alexandre Lacazette as our striker search continues, although the latter is believed to have
picked up an injury recently, and his club are said to have raised his price tag in recent days.
Arsenal and Chile star attacker, Alexis Sanchez found himself as an early international break victim as the former Udinese
man picked up an injury during his training session with La Roja.
Arsene Wenger has already been hit with some bad news during the current international break, with two very important Arsenal players in Alexis Sanchez and Hector
Bellerin picking up injury problems and making us wonder whether the old injury curse is coming back to bite us on the bum once again.