Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has sounded the alarm over player workload, saying his team’s injury crisis is “a consequence” of increasing demands on footballers. Arteta said he was training his squad “less than ever” in a bid to balance a schedule that can require European football’s top stars to play 60-70 games a season.

Kai Havertz's season-ending injury is a "big blow" to Arsenal and it will test their mettle once again after the club navigated through several injuries this season to sit second in the Premier League,

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says he loves the challenge of losing his main forward options to injury but thinks losing Kai Havertz was “an accident waiting to happen” because of the load on players at the top of the Premier League.