There were minutes this weekend for Arsenal’s more experienced players out on-loan but a few youngsters also featured across Europe as the top leagues returned to action after a winter break.
Wojciech Szczesny made a string of important saves, including a stop to deny M’Baye Niang’s first-half penalty, keeping a hard-fought clean sheet as Roma prevailed over AC Milan on Monday evening.
A few of Arsenal’s loanees featured this weekend, with Wojciech Szczesny earning a clean sheet for Roma and Takuma Asano creating an assist during a routine VfB Stuttgart win the highlights.
Joel Campbell, currently on his fifth loan spell away from the Emirates, has impressed in patches of good form for Sporting.
A roundup of all the Arsenal players on loan who have been involved so far this weekend
A number of Arsenal players got rare starts this weekend while Jack Wilshere excelled once again for Bournemouth.
Alexis Sanchez proved that hamstrings are just something mortals have to worry about by netting a brace against Uruguay as Joel Campbell also grabbed a couple of goals for Costa Rica.
With the international break in full swing, we take a look at the first-team players (including those out on-loan) who were called up to their respective countries in recent days.
We’re now into the third international break of a season that isn’t even three months old, so who will be going where and for what?
Joel Campbell helped himself to a goal and an assist as Sporting CP beat Arouca 3-0 on Sunday evening.
There were more minutes for Arsenal’s crop of talent, both senior and youth, players currently out on-loan across Europe.
According to reports coming from Portugal, Joel Campbell is struggling while on loan at Sporting because he can’t seem to gel with manager, Jorge Jesus’, plans.
It was a better week for Arsenal’s crop of players out on-loan, especially Dan Crowley, who followed up his goal against Coventry with another well-taken finish against Port Vale in one of Saturday’s 3pm kick-off’s.
Joel Campbell won and scored an injury-time penalty to give Costa Rica a dramatic 4-3 win over Russia in a friendly that took place on Sunday.
There were mixed feelings for two of Arsenal’s loanee players over this past week, with Joel Campbell’s poor performance against Rio Ave meaning he was left on the substitutes’ bench for Sporting’s 4-2 win against Estoril Friday evening.
Joel Campbell (Sporting) and Wojciech Szczesny (Roma) both started for their respective loan sides, but neither were on the winning team this past Sunday.
After Sporting lost 2-1 to Real Madrid in the Champions League, Joel Campbell made it clear that although it’s not the best result, he wants to keep working.
Joel Campbell’s loan club, Sporting, lost against Real Madrid 2-1 in the Champions League.
Joel Campbell was Arsenal’s only loanee to start and complete the full 90 minutes on Saturday – and he netted a goal in Sporting’s 3-0 victory over Moreirense.
Luis Boa Morte has said that Joel Campbell will be ‘better for Arsenal’ after his loan spell with Sporting CP this season.