Mikel Arteta says Arsenal are caught in a “actually harmful circle” with accidents – however denied they’re a results of overtraining.

Arsenal have suffered accidents to plenty of key gamers all through the season and will probably be with out midfielder Declan Rice, defender William Saliba and ahead Leandro Trossard for the match towards Membership Brugge within the league part of the Champions League on Wednesday.

Trossard, who scored within the loss to Aston Villa on the weekend, solely simply returned from harm however was introduced off earlier than the top of the sport regardless of solely being launched as a second-half substitute.

Arsenal are nonetheless with out ahead Kai Havertz and defenders Gabriel Magalhaes and Cristhian Mosquera, whereas striker Viktor Gyokeres is simply coming back from harm.

The Gunners have additionally made a change to their Champions League squad due to harm, with Gabriel Jesus, who has been out since January after cruciate ligament surgical procedure, changing 15-year-old Max Dowman – who picked up his harm taking part in for Arsenal Underneath-21s in a pleasant towards Manchester United on Saturday.

However when requested if overtraining was the reason for the issues, Arteta rejected the thought.

“No, as a result of we do not prepare.” Arteta stated referring to the quick turnaround between video games at this level within the season earlier than saying his facet skilled for “20 minutes” on Tuesday.

“We do not have time to coach. So coaching is just not there however clearly the truth that you might be lacking gamers, you might be loading different gamers extra [as] a consequence. It is a actually harmful circle that one.”

Arsenal additionally needed to take care of long-term accidents to Havertz and Bukayo Saka final season, whereas centre-back Gabriel missed an essential couple of months on the finish of the final marketing campaign.

And Arteta stated that alongside the Arsenal medical workforce he was at all times trying on the causes for the accidents they undergo.

“A number of the gamers have performed over 150 video games in two seasons so it begins to get overloaded. You begin to ask them repeatedly and once more to do this [and] sooner or later they may break down,” he stated.

“It is one thing that we’re continually taking a look at. We have now performed loads of video games with loads of gamers lacking that places loads of stress after which extra accidents however we’re on it.

“I am actually pleased what we’re doing when it comes to the medical stuff and all the pieces that we are attempting to carry collectively, however typically as effectively we’d like some issues to go on our facet.”