Arsenal duo injured in League Cup defeat

“I don’t know. What I’m focused on tomorrow is to continue our run (in the Premier League)”.

If any Sheffield Wednesday players were still on a high following their sensational 3-0 victory over Arsenal on Tuesday night, then they will have been quickly brought back down to earth by head coach Carlos Carvalhal.

The Gunners’ stint at the top lasted just 24 hours but they will attempt to maintain the pressure on leaders Manchester City when they travel to the Liberty Stadium.

Walcott suffered a calf problem and Oxlade-Chamberlain picked up a hamstring injury, leaving Arsenal with eight first-team players on the sidelines.

“The injuries are two muscular injuries, how big the damage is I don’t know”, Wenger said.

“I think it’s good to remind the players that we’ve beaten them in the past”.

“We always have to answer the question of whether it is more than being unlucky when we have injuries, but we analyse every single case and every exercise”.

“Everything belongs to the players, they were fantastic”. “To lose two players is damaging to us, and two offensive players”.

“If you flip it around and we had those injuries we’d obviously be thin on the ground”.

They will miss England’s friendlies in Spain and at home to France four days later but Wenger hopes they will be back to face West Bromwich Albion after the global break. “In that respect, and they have got a lot of players in midfield, they aren’t doing too bad”.

“We lost two players. I want to play football as close to perfection as possible”, he said during his pre-match press conference on Friday. By filling the role of experienced wingers, Iwobi will look to garner important first-team play and contribute when Arsenal need young players to step up.

“I am concerned, we have a big game on Saturday (against Swansea), we have Bayern in the Champions League coming up, already now we are short”. “We have had a good start and we are going well at the moment”.