Arsenal supervisor, Mikel Arteta has revealed that he’s nervous after star defender William Saliba twisted his ankle within the 1-0 defeat in opposition to Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday, Softfootball studies.
The French defender had earlier twisted his ankle throughout warm-up for the match and it wasn’t lengthy into the primary half when he felt the ache after touchdown awkwardly from a problem and needed to be substituted with new signing Cristhian Mosquera.
Chatting with Arsenal’s official membership media after the encounter, Arteta was comfortable there was a ready-made substitute for the sport however when requested if he was nervous about Saliba’s harm. He replied:
“I’m since you can’t play a sport of that stature. After you tried [to], that implies that there’s something unsuitable.
“He twisted his ankle through the warm-up, and he got here in and he stated he believed that he might keep it up and play, however immediately within the first two actions. I might see that he couldn’t cope, and we needed to get him out sadly. However thank God we had Mosquera, which we put in for the primary time within the Premier League. His debut, not anticipating it at Anfield, and I feel he was actually, actually good.”
On the sport plan itself that noticed Liverpool win the sport solely by a magical freekick by Denmark Captain Dominik Szoboszlai. Arteta stated:
“We didn’t do our gameplan to frustrate them; we did it to win it. I feel we elevated the sport and the dominance to some extent that they needed to increase it. They did, particularly from the 60-78th minute, when then you may see that there have been no margins within the sport. When that occurs, the sport goes to be determined in two methods. One, with a person error, and two, with a magic second. Szoboszlai created a second that was unbelievable, that has received the sport, and that was the distinction, nothing else.”
Arsenal misplaced their unbeaten document within the 2025/26 premier league season and can return to motion in opposition to Nottingham Forest on September 14 after the worldwide break.
