Mikel Arteta has admitted he needs to assess Oleksandr Zinchenko’s fitness now ahead of the FA Cup third round tie against Liverpool.
The Ukrainian full-back was forced to miss the game against Fulham on New Year’s Eve due to a calf injury, but Takehiro Tomiyasu is working with his Japanese teammates ahead of the Asian Cup and the manager believes Alex played well.
I hope that it will be possible.
He played a necessary role against the Reds.
Mikel updated the media in his pre-match press conference: “He’s making good progress.
There’s another training session tomorrow, so I hope he’s ready to play.
” “We will assess whether or not he is fit and then start the match.
“He was ruled out of the African Cup of Nations as he has been unable to play since the start of the season due to an ongoing muscular problem.
October.
As for why Thomas was not selected by the Black Stars, he added: “It was a matter of common sense.
He had a long-term injury and was keen to progress through his rehabilitation.
He really wanted to go to the national team, but his team was still far from practicing and it didn’t make much sense for him to be there.
“Hopefully it will take a few weeks (for him to be healthy again).
How many weeks it will take depends on how long it takes for him to complete the next steps of training with the team.
It’s a little different depending on him, but he’s making good progress.
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The Ukrainian full-back was forced to miss the game against Fulham on New Year’s Eve due to a calf injury, but Takehiro Tomiyasu is working with his Japanese teammates ahead of the Asian Cup and the manager believes Alex played well.
I hope that it will be possible.
He played a necessary role against the Reds.
Mikel updated the media in his pre-match press conference: “He’s making good progress.
There’s another training session tomorrow, so I hope he’s ready to play.
” “We will assess whether or not he is fit and then start the match.
“He was ruled out of the African Cup of Nations as he has been unable to play since the start of the season due to an ongoing muscular problem.
October.
As for why Thomas was not selected by the Black Stars, he added: “It was a matter of common sense.
He had a long-term injury and was keen to progress through his rehabilitation.
He really wanted to go to the national team, but his team was still far from practicing and it didn’t make much sense for him to be there.
“Hopefully it will take a few weeks (for him to be healthy again).
How many weeks it will take depends on how long it takes him to complete the next phase of training with the team.
It depends a bit, but he’s progressing well.
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Fabio underwent groin surgery in November, but his coach revealed that the surgery went well.
He hopes to be able to select the Portuguese midfielder by the end of this month, if all goes well.
“He is recovering well again, but it was a surgery that required two different things to get results,” Mikel said.
“Early signs are good.
Obviously he’s still a bit far from where we want to be, but he needs to keep working and we hope we can get him in the next few weeks.
” Long-term injury.
He’s doing very well, but he’s far from practicing with the team or competing with the team, so we don’t expect him to come back any time soon.
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