Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta will be hoping Martin Odegaard and Ben White can return from injury over the coming weeks. Both players have missed the last few weeks with Odegaard’s absence dating back to the September international break where he suffered ankle ligament damage.
“After recent scans, they’ve showed that he’s got some damage especially on one of the ligaments in the ankle,” the Gunners head coach revealed in mid-September. “We’re going to miss him. It’s quite significant, so we’re going to lose him for a while.”
Arteta also suggested he would not feature for Norway during the October international break with national team head coach Stale Solbakken seeming to confirm as such. “He is far from being in the squad,” he said of Odegaard. “We will have to see how far he gets during this international break.
