Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta and defender Riccardo Calafiori (Picture by Getty Photographs, Mike Egerton / PA Photographs / Profimedia)
Arsenal might be with out Riccardo Calafiori for his or her upcoming essential matches within the Premier League and the Champions League, after he sustained a worrying knee damage throughout Italy’s 2-1 UEFA Nations League defeat to Germany on Thursday.
Calafiori, who has been a daily starter for Arsenal in latest weeks regardless of the emergence of Myles Lewis-Skelly, was a starter for Italy within the quarter-final tie on the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, and he performed the complete 90 minutes. He had a tough night on the park, and to make issues worse, he went down within the closing phases after showing to injure his knee in a non-contact incident.
The damage will rule him out of the return leg in opposition to Germany, with Fabrizio Romano reporting that Calafiori has left the Italy coaching camp with quick impact with a view to return to North London for additional examinations with the Arsenal medical group.
Riccardo Calafiori early damage analysis revealed
Romano additionally stories that members of the Italian teaching workers have instructed that Calafiori has suffered a knee collateral damage, with the attainable injury being between a grade one or two. Nonetheless, the ultimate evaluation shall be made by Arsenal, who’re anticipated to place their defender by means of medical exams within the subsequent 24-48 hours.
It feels inevitable that Calafiori will miss a minimum of two of Arsenal’s subsequent matches, that are within the Premier League in opposition to Fulham and Everton. The next fixtures sees them host Actual Madrid within the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie, and Mikel Arteta shall be determined for the 22-year-old to be accessible for that one, though it appears to be like tough at this stage.
Arsenal shall be praying for excellent news with Calafiori, as they aim a robust run within the Champions League – and likewise an unlikely title battle in opposition to Liverpool within the Premier League.
