Arsenal worried about Gyokeres injury

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says he is “concerned” about an injury suffered by striker Viktor Gyokeres.

The Swedish forward missed training on Monday after being substituted with the issue during Saturday’s 2-0 win over Burnley.

Arteta confirmed he will definitely miss Tuesday night’s Champions League match against Slavia Prague but indicated there was uncertainty over just how bad the problem was.

“I am concerned because he hasn’t had many muscular issues and he had to leave the pitch and he was feeling something,” Arteta said on Monday evening.

“That’s obviously never a good sign, especially for a player that is very, very explosive. So we are digging in a little bit more to understand where we are in terms of the injury and we’ll announce the moment we know.

“He’s definitely not available (to play Slavia). He hasn’t trained today. We need to do some more tests and scans in the next few days to understand the extent of the injury.”

Arsenal have had bad injury problems in attack this season.

Noni Madueke, Gabriel Jesus, Kai Havertz, Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Martinelli are all out, so Mikel Merino could have to be an option in attack once more for the Gunners.

“He [Gyokeres] was very disappointed after the match with what he felt, but this is part of football,” the Gunners boss said.

“At the end, if you expect a linear line, everything going up, it’s not going to happen. And if he’s got something, he’s going to have to deal with it. We will help him to do that.

“As you said, he was in a really good moment, in really good form. He’s very important for the team. But for tomorrow, we don’t have him. So that’s it.”