Arsenal Captain Martin Odegaard is expected to miss the Tuesday visit from Shakhtar Donetsk, as the Gunners push to try and get him healthy for the HUGE clash with Liverpool on Sunday. Although even that could still be too early for him. Meanwhile there are concerns surrounding star players Bukayo Saka and Jurrien Timber, who missed Arsenal's surprise defeat to Bournemouth yesterday.

Gunners boss Mikel Arteta gave updates on all three, we'll start with Odegaard.

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Arsenal Team News "He's not gonna be fit for this game," Arteta said of Odegaard, ahead of the loss to Bournemouth. "Next week will be a different story. He needs to clear some markers doing things with the ball in that latter stage of rehab. Next week will be crucial."

Hmmm. Stay tuned.

Arteta in reference to Timber on Friday: "Today we'll have to push. We are struggling a bit with the numbers, especially on our right side." Regarding Saka, Arteta said "We tried the last few days, but he didn't have the right feelings, so there was no point pushing him."

Most likely, we won't see either Timber or Saka on Tuesday night.

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