Arsenal have an enormous concern to take care of earlier than Christmas

Arsenal have one other drawback forward that Mikel Arteta might want to take care of. Photograph by Alex Pantling/Getty Photographs

Accidents and suspensions to key gamers have already derailed the possibility for Arsenal to construct up a head of steam this season, and there are extra issues on the horizon for Mikel Arteta and his squad.

Ethan Nwaneri’s contribution to the Gunners Carabao Cup win over Preston noticed the teen achieve some plaudits from his supervisor, nevertheless it’s that win which goes to trigger points.

Extra issues forward for Arsenal and Mikel Arteta

That’s due to the fixture congestion which is able to finally outcome from Arsenal heading into the latter stage of the competitors and Arsenal Ladies’s Champions League tie towards Bayern Munich.

The latter tie will happen on Wednesday 18th December on the Emirates Stadium, with the lads’s staff enjoying the earlier weekend towards towards Everton and the next weekend towards Crystal Palace.

Additionally they meet the Eagles within the Carabao Cup quarter finals, however this recreation has been pencilled in by the EFL for Tuesday seventeenth December.

Arsenal face fixture pile-up because of Carabao Cup win. Photograph by Matt McNulty/Getty Photographs

The recognition of the ladies’s recreation usually has seen crowds swell to file numbers up to now couple of seasons, and Arsenal are understood to have already made the choice that every one of their ladies’s Champions League video games could be performed on the Emirates this yr, reasonably than their regular house of Meadow Park – which wouldn’t meet UEFA necessities in any occasion.

What’s additionally complicating the problem is that Crystal Palace’s recreation towards Brighton has been chosen for the TV on Monday sixteenth December.

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The Day by day Mail counsel that it might be moved again a day however that’s nonetheless unlikely to present the South Londoners sufficient relaxation earlier than they’d play the Gunners, probably on that Tuesday.

With no answer but arrived at, it may properly be the brand new yr earlier than the cup recreation towards Palace will get performed, and that won’t even swimsuit Arsenal both.