Injury news

Watford will be without one of their most influential and dangerous players in Gerard Deulofeu when the sides face each other after the Spaniard was ruled out for the rest of the season.

Despite Jose Mourinho saying he had doubts over Harry Kane’s fitness for the Euros this summer, the striker is expected to be fit to face Arsenal later this season as is always the case with him.

Andre Gomes looks set to make his return to football against Arsenal after having ankle dislocated by Tottenham players back at the start of November.

Newcastle’s Andy Carroll will not be lining up against Arsenal on Sunday and the Magpies have no clue what the problem is or when he will return.

Tottenham Hotspur and Jose Mourinho claim that Harry Kane may not be anywhere near full fitness when the Euros start this summer as they do not expect him to return to the pitch until Spurs’ last two games of the season.

Pep Guardiola has called on English football to scrap the League Cup after injuries to Marcus Rashford and Harry Kane in comments I can only imagine being taken completely differently had Arsene Wenger uttered them a few years ago.

Lukasz Fabianaksi will only miss two weeks of action after the injury he picked up at the weekend turned out to be less severe than first feared.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has apologised for his challenge on Max Meyer.

In Arsenal’s chase for a top four place, Harry Maguire has added to Manchester United’s woes by tearing a hip muscle that will rule him out for up to two months.

Jack Wilshere has suffered another injury setback delaying his return from this latest problem.

Arsenal are facing the very real prospect of losing their top doctor, Gary O’Driscoll, to Liverpool but are desperately trying to keep him at the club.

Wilfried Zaha should return from injury to face Arsenal on Saturday, according to Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson.

This week, Arsenal confirmed that Calum Chambers had suffered an ACL injury to his left knee and underwent surgery on Thursday to correct the problem, so what can we expect for the player over the course of the next six-to-nine months?

Arsenal could enquire over an early return from loan for William Saliba amid their current defensive injury problems, according to further reports.

Marcos Alonso should return in time to face Arsenal but Reece James won’t, according to Chelsea boss Frank Lampard in an injury update.

Arsenal may now merely dream of being as high as fourth in the Premier League but they can take some comfort knowing they occupy 4th place on the hamstring injury table.

Martin Keown doesn’t believe the reports on an injury to Mesut Özil, claiming the German just took himself out of the picture before Freddie Ljungberg could.

William Saliba is back in training with Saint-Etienne after the metatarsal injury he picked up with his loan club in November.

Paul Pogba could return from injury in time to face Arsenal, according to Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

John Stones, David Silva and Sergio Aguero are all yet to return to training after injury setbacks, as of Tuesday morning.