Arsenal maintained their 100 per cent start to the new season as they beat Fulham 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday evening.
They are in fine fettle, having sealed four wins in four after seeing off Crystal Palace, Leicester City and Bournemouth. And now the Gunners can add Fulham to the list of teams they have beaten.
However, the victory against Fulham posed different challenges as for the first time this season Mikel Arteta named a changed team due to injuries suffered in the squad.
Here, football.london takes a look at the injury latest within the Arsenal squad after their 2-1 win over the Cottagers ahead of Wednesday night's game with Aston Villa.
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Oleksandr Zinchenko
Zinchenko had featured in every Premier League for the Gunners since making the transfer switch from Manchester City. However, he missed out on Arsenal's Saturday evening victory over Fulham due to injury.
football.london 's Arsenal reporter Kaya Kaynak tells us that Zinchenko suffered a slight sprain to left knee from Friday afternoon training session. As a precaution, he was left out of the matchday squad against Fulham and will continue to be assessed.
Thomas Partey
Similarly to Zinchenko, Partey had featured in every Premier League for the Gunners leading up to the game against Fulham. However, he missed the 2-1 victory over the Whites due to injury.
Kaynak also reported that the Ghanaian has a tight right thigh from Friday afternoon's training session, as he will also continue to be assessed ahead of next week.
Reiss Nelson
Young winger Nelson suffered an injury problem in training last week and is likely set for a significant time on the treatment table, as per Arteta.
The 22-year-old, whose last Arsenal outing was a year ago against Brentford, remains the only absentee for Arteta's side.
What Arteta has said : "Everybody has trained this week and everybody is fine apart from Reiss who you know has been injured for a few weeks now.
"He felt something in training, we scanned him, and the doctor came with bad news. It’s a muscular injury; hopefully, he will be back soon. [We don't know how long for] yet. They need to do another test."
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