Arsenal’s Oxlade-Chamberlain and Walcott to miss three games

What will irk Arsene more is the fact that he lost the two England internationals in one game, that too in the League cup and both players were actually in form when they picked up their injuries. “How big the damage is, I don’t know as we need to wait 48 hours to have them scanned”. Once I lost two players, I had Gabriel and Monreal and I did not bring them on as we could not afford to lose any more players.

Walcott will also be absent for his team’s trip to White Hart Lane for the north London derby next month, with Wenger hoping he will return to action after the worldwide break.

Wednesday were well worth their victory at Hillsborough, as they gained revenge for the 1993 League Cup final defeat to the Gunners at Wembley.

Second-choice goalkeeper David Ospina, club captain Mikel Arteta, midfielders Jack Wilshere and Tomas Rosicky and forward Danny Welbeck are also now sidelined.

Arsenal have been dealt a major injury blow with the news that Theo Walcott is set to miss at least six games due to a calf injury, according to the Telegraph.

However, Wenger stood up for himself ahead of Saturday’s Premier League match against Swansea City.

This lead to Verheijen posting a series of tweets detailing why Arsenal have struggled with persistent injuries in the past number of years and claiming that Wenger’s players always pick up knocks because the club’s planning is not up to scratch. “We have a very big squad”.

Bannan said: “It’s brilliant, to beat a Premier League side of that quality is going to add to the confidence we’ve already got. Sometimes, you know ideally you have to rest a player because he has given a lot, but if he has played extremely well in the game before and you have won and the player says he feels perfectly all right, it is hard to say: ‘You don’t play'”.

According to the Metro, 23-year-old is angling to start for Arsenal against Swansea City this weekend and Arsene Wenger has declared that the Costa Rican star is very much in the mix.