Martin Odegaard has missed Arsenal’s final six video games with the damage he suffered final month.© AFP
Mikel Arteta says title-chasing Arsenal have needed to be “totally different” whereas captain Martin Odegaard is sidelined by an ankle downside. Odegaard has missed Arsenal’s final six video games with the damage he suffered taking part in for Norway final month, an absence that has pressured Arteta to vary his plans. Arteta mentioned on Friday that the midfielder was “working so laborious” to return, however the Gunners boss couldn’t pinpoint when he can be again in motion. Leandro Trossard has are available in for the top-flight video games missed by Odegaard, in addition to the Champions League win over Paris Saint-Germain this week.
In a tweak to Arsenal’s regular 4-2-3-1 formation, Kai Havertz has performed alongside the Belgian in a two-man strike partnership.
Arsenal’s potential to adapt in Odegaard’s absence has helped them stay considered one of two unbeaten sides within the Premier League, sitting in third place only one level behind leaders Liverpool.
“We needed to be totally different,” mentioned Arteta, whose aspect host winless Southampton on Saturday. “The impression Martin has in the whole lot that we do, it was too huge to attempt to replicate it with one participant.
“We’ve tried to do it otherwise, adapting a number of issues, utilizing gamers’ qualities, gamers that may play in numerous positions and with the correct chemistry round them.
“Maybe it took a recreation or two however then issues began to circulate a bit higher. We discovered a method, however we nonetheless miss him.”
He added: “We do not have Martin, there are all of the issues that we can not do. But as effectively we have now a giant menace in different areas and we have now to benefit from them.”
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