Injury update on Thomas Vermaelen and Oxlade-Chamberlain
Arsenal have received some positive news on the injury front concerning Thomas Vermaelen and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
The duo were withdrawn before the end of Sunday’s 2-0 victory at Liverpool where Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla starred to hand the Gunners their first goals and victory of the season.
Oxlade-Chamberlain, who was only making his first start of the campaign at Anfield, made way for Aaron Ramsey after 73 minutes as he limped towards the sidelines, but Arsene Wenger has calmed any fears over the 19-year-old’s fitness.
Thomas Vermaelen, who proved an excellent presence amongst Arsenal’s back four on Sunday, suffered several injury scares during the game before finally being replaced by Laurent Koscielny as injury time approached.
The Belgian looked to have sustained a leg problem, but his boss is hopeful that he will not be spending any time out of action.
“Oxlade-Chamberlain had a kick but he is OK. Vermaelen had a kick as well, he should be alright.” Wenger said
Both Vermalen and Oxlade-Chamberlain are due for the upcoming international break. Arsenal’s skipper is set to join the Belgium squad but Oxlade-Chamberlain, who is already with the England camp, did not train with his countrymen at London Colney on Monday as England boss Roy Hodgson handed him a rest.
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With the of Sagia the difence will be ok but we ned 1 defender
Oh, give it up!
We can’t afford to lose any of our stars not now not in the future coz we don’t have a good bench who can step up n cover well like them, if we lose T.V we only have one player who can do his job perfectly and that is kocielny but Djourou is another blunder we don’t want to rely on.
You’re saying that as though we’ve lost two defenders. Verm, Mert and Kosc are all very good defenders and they’re all fit. Djourou is also very capable. At the minute its Mert and Verm if we lost one of those we’d get Kosc. The chances of us losing another is very slim plus not every team has 4 solid defenders. That’s just football.
I prayed dat every one of them stay fit before the next match against The saints .
I prayed dat every one of them stay fit before the next match against The saints . Gunners 4 life .
We should have signed vander wiel before the transfer closed to add cover in the defense but once again we acted late, now the last I heard paris st germain signed him!
Why you want him, he’s a right back. We don’t need three right backs. What team has three right backs??? :s
In AW we trust. for better for worse. Why most we sign him after we have correct RGs. The issue here is, we should hope that our players are injury free this season.
good news for arsenal fan
guners for life
Both d ox and arsenal skipper are fantastic during match against liverpool last sunday.GUNNER 4LIFE!
This what we are sayin that we need backup in all department jesus nervars yanga nbia isco mulunbu of west brom
well done arsenal.The liverpool game was exceptional wonderful.keep da spirit n lets avoid injuries.
The gunners will definitely grow in confidence after that convincing victory over liverpool corzola was a monster in the midfield! I can see him scoring a lot of goals for us! Up gunners!
Injuries are a thing of the past now that the Jonah has gone to MU. They will have their greater share of injuries now he is there, beginning with Rooney.
Anyone saying we should have signed…. X or Y etc. Please please please do give it a rest. the Window is closed, what are you expecting to achieve?
I find it unbelieveable there are still whingers on here after a fantastic win at Anfield.
Support Arsenal and what we have, it is the definition of madness to focus negatively on what we don’t have when you can’t change it (that applies for most things in life).
Rest bot of dem
I just hope the Liverpool win is not a one off. The gunners have got to beat the mid table to bottom half teams if they want to win the epl.Oh that’s not forgetting the MU/MC/Chelsea/Spurs/Everton .
Against the red face,I have always warned against the ref. You never know. This guy could contrive to help the ref to win even though he is losing 2-0/3-0 and 90% outplayed.
Simple. Give a penalty for one of the tackles bordering the gunners penalty area.believe me. It has happened before and will happen aagin.
Arsenal sent out the warning signals. Only one problem. If it was another referee, well, Mertesacker would have caused us the match! He is too slow! Why must Giraud go to defend at the back? THAT MERTESACKER!
let me pray it isnt 3months story again.
if only they c’d do a way wit injuries may be some thing can hapen.
Its nice to hear that the verminator and ox are both fine amidist fears that sustained injuries .Thx gunners for life.
I think gunners is the team 2beat! Arsenal 4life.
Id like to dispell the notion that sacker is too slow!.. with them big long strides of his? how could he be” surely he’d cover more ground and also i think most other players would have given away penno against pool, but thanks to sackers long telescopic legs it was a brilliant interception! great spot ref!! sacker running is like a giraff out running a pony or a pelican outrunning a crow!!!!………
the new arsenal can now get trophies with santi and podolski.
the team is on fire, but wenger should come up with strategies 2 hold players. players need tym 2 learn each other.