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A proof for the respective absences of Arsenal pair Kieran Tierney and Nicolas Pepe from the membership’s matchday squad to face Crystal Palace on Monday night has been offered.
Mikel Arteta’s troops, after all, are set to mark their post-international break return to motion in lower than an hour’s time.
A visit throughout London to tackle capital rivals Palace and membership icon Patrick Vieira lies in retailer, within the first of what’s set to show a season-defining 10-game stretch to shut 2021/22, amid the Gunners’ pursuit of an extended overdue top-4 end.
In flip, it got here as a significant shock when, upon Arteta’s newest matchday squad being unveiled a short while in the past, a pair of key choices had been nowhere to be seen.
The gamers in query? Kieran Tierney and Nicolas Pepe:
📋 Crew information from Selhurst Park…
🧤 Ramsdale returns!
💪 Cedric x Tavares each begin
🚀 Laca leads the road#CRYARS— Arsenal (@Arsenal) April 4, 2022
A proof, nevertheless, has since been offered for the absence of each the Scot, and Ivorian.
As per an additional publish throughout Arsenal’s social media platforms, Tierney has picked up a knee harm, while wide-man Pepe is struggling with an unspecified sickness:
🚨 Kieran Tierney (knee) and Nico Pepe (sickness) miss out on immediately’s matchday squad.
Again stronger, lads 👊
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) April 4, 2022
*Replace* – Mikel Arteta has since offered an perception into the extent of Tierney’s knee downside.
Chatting with the media forward in his pre-match media duties at Selhurst Park, the Arsenal boss confirmed {that a} scan has revealed ‘injury’, with the defender’s state of affairs ‘not wanting good’ forward of an appointment with a specialist on Tuesday.
Mikel Arteta on Kieran Tierney’s harm:
“He felt one thing in coaching, had a scan and there’s injury. He’s seeing a specialist on Tuesday but it surely isn’t wanting good.”
— now.arsenal (@now_arsenaI) April 4, 2022
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