'Full recovery' - Arsenal fans handed huge injury boost ahead of Atalanta and Man City clashes

Heading into the match, Arteta was already set to be without a number of first-team stars, including club captain Martin Odegaard, and with the club’s first Champions League match of this campaign coming up this week before then heading to the Etihad on Sunday, the Gooners would desperately have been hoping that no more casualties would take place this weekend.

Fear did rise however, with Saka requesting to come off and after the match, Arteta said of his player: “Saka went down. I don’t know exactly what it is, but he said he could not continue.”

However, all is not as disastrous as it first appeared and the latest reports indicate that the Emirates club fully expect the England winger to be fit in time to take on both Atalanta and Man City. According to the Evening Standard, the 23-year-old was understood to have been suffering with cramps and is therefore likely to make a full recovery in time for Thursday.