Why are Arsenal players prone to injury?
This has been a recurring theme for the Gunners over the past couple of seasons. When asked about it during this campaign, Mikel Arteta has said that a lot of injuries in one position puts a lot of pressure on the remaining players and that load increase can lead to more injuries. Arsenal have also gone deep in all competitions so they have played a lot of games this season.
[BBC] We've had a few questions sent in around why Arsenal are so prone to injuries via our club Ask Me Anything form . This has been a recurring theme for the Gunners over the past couple of seasons. When asked about it during this campaign, Mikel Arteta has said that a lot of injuries in one position puts a lot of pressure on the remaining players and that load increase can lead to more injuries.
Arsenal have also gone deep in all competitions so they have played a lot of games this season. Kai Havertz also had a long-term injury and since coming back from that knee problem has not been able to hold his fitness for a long period of time. Arteta regularly references that Havertz is not the only one to have fitness issues this season, but it has definitely been a problem throughout this campaign.
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