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Mikel Arteta has revealed that one of his stars lost the shock of Arsenal with Girona through an injury.
Before the final game of the renewed stage of the Champions League League, the Spanish made several changes to the team that defeated Wolves on Saturday.
And despite being behind Wednesday night after Arnaut Danjuma opened the scoring for the hosts, the goals of Jorginho and Ethan Nwaneri would finally change the course of the rotated gunners.
Victory saw the club automatically described for the round of 16 in March, with attention firmly returning to the national campaign in the interim.
On Sunday, Arsenal is the host of Manchester City while they seek to maintain pressure on the leaders of the Liverpool League.
However, they can be without one of their key players in the Emirates after Arteta revealed that David Raya had lost Wednesday's European game due to injuries.
Mikel Arteta revealed that David Raya lost the arsenal victory over Girona through an injury
In the absence of line, Net Brazilian received his first start since he joined the Bournemouth loan club
The first choice archer of the Gunners is now a doubt for his clash with Man City on Sunday
Initially, Arteta was supposed to have simply chosen to rest his first -choice goalkeeper before Sunday's confrontation, but the chief of the Gunners later revealed otherwise.
He said: 'Yes, it is not fit. Apart from that, if there is a player who deserves a chance, then it is net.
Speaking after the game, Arteta added: “He could certainly not play, he is injured and that is all.”
With a line not available, in the Montilivi Arteta of Estadi Montilivi, he delivered a first appearance in the Arsenal to Neto, who joined the club with a loan of the Bournemouth season the day of the deadline last summer.
At 35, the Brazilian international of a capitalization became the oldest debutante of Arsenal for more than a century.
If Raya is not available to face the Pep Guardiola team this weekend, Neto would be the only senior goalkeeper of Arsenal, with the young Tommy Setford probably be named in the bank.
Raya has always been present for the Gunners in the Premier League last season, and the last one was lost a league game for the club in March last year after not being able to play against the then Brentford club.
