“Gabi played and trained with us the whole week,” Arteta said. “With Thomas unfortunately we had a little set back a few days ago. He’s not going to be available in the squad. We don’t know if it’s a few days or weeks.
“He felt something in a very similar area and he wasn’t able to train the last few days.”

Asked to elaborate more on Partey’s setback, Arteta said, “Yeah, a big concern because he’s such an important player for us and then we lost him for a while. Now, it’s been a long time without him
“They’ve been different kinds of injuries. Not everything is bad luck but there are a lot of things that are difficult to control. The player has an history where he’s issues in the past so we have to protect him.”