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Gabriel Martinelli will lose more than a month of action after suffering an lesion in the hamstrings against Newcastle, according to a report.
Martinelli fell grabbing his hamstrings in the 37th minute in the St James Park during the defeat in the second stage of the semifinal of the Carabao Cup of the Gunners on Tuesday and now faces a spell on the sidelines.
The last blow to the Mikel Arteta team occurs in the middle of a kind of injury crisis, with Arteta expressing its disappointment due to the failure of the club to sign a front player in the recent transfer window.
ARTERA immediately indicated the teenager Ethan Nwaneri to continue the blow on Tuesday, and Martinelli was seen limping the field, helped by medical staff.
Arsenal is already Sin Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesús, and the latter was discarded for the season with a LCA injury.
They will now need to find another solution to their attack struggles, with Martinelli often replacing Saka with Leandro Trossard on the right and, according to The AtléticoThe Brazilian will miss more than a month.
Arsenal striker Gabriel Martinelli faces more than a month aside with an lesion in the hamstrings, according to a report
The striker was injured during Newcastle defeat and has now treated Arsenal his last injury blow
The chief of the gunners, Mikel Arterta, expressed his frustration at his side without signing a striker during the January transfer window
Natural replacement seems to be more regular minutes for Nwaneri, although they are now extremely thin in terms of options.
In January several players were held, including Ollie Watkins and Álvaro Morata, but the Gunners could not bring reinforcements.
Arteta said: 'We had a clear intention that it is an open window to explore the opportunities to improve our team with players that can affect it.
'We have not succeeded, so we are disappointed in that sense, but we are also very aware that we only want to bring certain types of players and we must also be very disciplined with that and I think we will do it.
'When you do your best effort and do things with the right process and see the people that we all share the same intentions and wills and after not reaching it, surely there are things to learn from it, there is always, but you have to move on And that is an important piece at the time and now we have to move on.
'No one knows if it is better to have done it or not. We will probably know at the end of the season.
When he was pushed beyond the topic of signing a striker, he said: 'It was a very similar narrative at the end of last season and has been for a while, what I understand.
'But there are certain things we can do, certain things that we cannot do and that is all. When someone is demonstrating that he will win to say: “It's fine, now it's time to do it and we are willing to do it,” then you can't do it, ok, you can be disappointed, but at least you did your best. “
