Ben White wasn’t involved in the matchday squad against Burnley.
Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has featured only once in the last five games and scored a consolation goal in their 3-1 loss to West Ham United.
Since then he has missed three successive meetings with Newcastle United, Sevilla and Burnley due to his hip injury but Mikel Arteta admits the Norwegian will be back after the international break.
“I don’t know. I’m going to have a meeting now with the medical department to understand everybody’s situation and I think he is going to be back after the international break but I don’t know exactly what the decision is.
Fellow teammate Ben White has been a mainstay at Arsenal this campaign but Arteta did not provide a reason for his absence last night.
“Yesterday in training he wasn’t comfortable, he didn’t look right, but Ben won’t give you much, he always wants to be on the pitch and always wants to hide anything that is in there, but we highlighted it, we noticed in the last few weeks as well something in there, and we wanted to protect him today,” Arteta added.
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