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Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta and defender Riccardo Calafiori (Picture by Getty Photos, Mike Egerton / PA Photos / Profimedia)
Arsenal could possibly 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 current 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 troublesome 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 towards Germany, with Fabrizio Romano reporting that Calafiori has left the Italy coaching camp with instant impact to be able to return to North London for additional examinations with the Arsenal medical workforce.
Riccardo Calafiori early damage analysis revealed
Riccardo Calafiori is comforted by Antonio Rudiger (Picture by Alex Grimm/Getty Photos)
Romano additionally reviews that members of the Italian teaching employees have urged that Calafiori has suffered a knee collateral damage, with the attainable injury being between a grade one or two. Nonetheless, the ultimate evaluation will probably be made by Arsenal, who’re anticipated to place their defender via medical exams within the subsequent 24-48 hours.
It feels inevitable that Calafiori will miss no less than two of Arsenal’s subsequent matches, that are within the Premier League towards 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 will probably be determined for the 22-year-old to be accessible for that one, though it appears to be like troublesome at this stage.
Arsenal will probably be praying for excellent news with Calafiori, as they aim a robust run within the Champions League – and in addition an unlikely title battle towards Liverpool within the Premier League.
