Arsenal trio Alexis Sanchez, Santi Cazorla & Laurent Koscielny Injured vs Norwich

Arsene Wenger is confident Arsenal are still in the mix for the Premier League title despite admitting they are going through “a bad spell”.

Mesut Ozil opened the scoring only for Lewis Grabban to equalise before half-time and Arsene Wenger’s afternoon went from bad to worse as Sanchez hobbled off with a hamstring problem.

Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck are still long-term absentees, along with midfielders Tomas Rosicky and Francis Coquelin. Arsenal need to beat Olympiakos by two goals – or 3-2, 4-3 and so on – to guarantee qualification for the knockout phase of the competition.

“Injuries do happen in a game but quite often they brew in training, when players are pushing the boundaries”, she said.

It emerged afterwards that the Chilean, who helped his country win Copa America in the summer, had a little twinge in the same area before the match and he probably shouldn’t have played.

Arsenal are likely to be without the services of Santi Cazorla and Alexis Sanchez for their crucial Champions League game against Olympiacos later this month, with both players set to be assessed for long-term injuries. “You are there to play”, Henry was quoted as saying by skysports.com on Monday.

There is no need for Arsenal to worry about absence of Alexis Sanchez, according to team-mate Hector Bellerin.

“Hopefully I can get a few more games under my belt to get my fitness levels back up”.

Norwich nearly grabbed a second-half victor but Petr Cech made a stunning one-handed save after Gabriel Paulista almost headed Martin Olsson’s cross into his own goal.

“Obviously we can do it, but also it’s not going to be easy because it is a good team and it is going to be a great atmosphere over there, but I think we have the team spirit to do it”.

Arsenal are now three without a win in the top flight, having been held at home by Tottenham before falling to defeat at West Brom last time out.

“He plays for Chile, travels 14 hours there and back, he plays every game but even when the game is won sometimes he will still go and put some pressure on teams…”

“[Regret playing alexis?] No I don’t regret it”, he said. You have plenty of players across Europe who play in every single game and at the moment we are a bit short.