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 a lot of key gamers all through the season and will likely 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 Below-21s in a pleasant towards Manchester United on Saturday.

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

“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 aspect 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 cope with 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 group he was at all times wanting on the causes for the accidents they endure.

“Among the gamers have performed over 150 video games in two seasons so it begins to get overloaded. You begin to ask them time and again and once more to try this [and] in some unspecified time in the future they may break down,” he stated.

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

“I am actually glad what we’re doing when it comes to the medical stuff and every little thing that we are attempting to carry collectively, however generally as nicely we’d like some issues to go on our aspect.”