Arteta faces fresh injury blow, but will Gabriel return?

Mikel Arteta admits he's been getting headaches over Arsenal's ever-growing injury woes

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00:00Yeah, he's out. He's evolving well. He's not a major injury, but it will keep him out for a few games, I think.

00:07He's pushing hard, as he always does every time he's out, and he's evolving really well.

00:13He's doing pitch sessions, so he's not too far. We have to see in the last stages of that rehab how he progresses,

00:20but we are quite positive about it.

00:22So far, in December, my headaches have come with having no options in the front line and no options in the back line.

00:30That's the headaches. I haven't had headaches.

00:33The other way around, I hope that I do. It won't be headaches.

00:37It will be difficult decisions, but they're going to make the team better.

00:41The headaches are when you have to make decisions that you're making the team weaker,

00:45or you cannot make decisions because you're going to expose other players or players that,

00:51if you give them too much game time, probably they're going to get injured as well.

00:55So that's the headaches.