Santi Cazorla OUT For Six Month With Ligament Damage

Thierry Henry has spoken out against Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s choice to play Alexis Sanchez against Norwich City given that the Chilean maestro aggravated an existing hamstring concern in the Sunday afternoon fixture.

Arsenal eventually broke the deadlock in the 29th minute, as Alexis Sanchez played in Mesut Ozil, who showed great composure to slot into the far corner.

Arsenal missed the chance to heighten the congestion at the top of the Premier League and suffered fresh injury blows when a frustrating 1-1 draw at Norwich City failed to take them alongside leaders Manchester City and Leicester City on Sunday.

“Santi Cazorla finished on one leg, he has a knee problem, Alexis Sanchez has a thigh problem and Laurent Koscielny has a hip problem”.

“Every player wants to stay in the team and scoring gives me a bigger chance to do that”, Grabban said.

“They are ready to step up so obviously every single player on the bench can do the same job as every single player in the starting XI”.

Our injury situation just seems to get worse but on this occasion we really only have ourselves to blame – particularly in the case of Sanchez as Arsene admitted before the game he was carrying a hamstring problem.

The coach told Sky Sports after the game that he would have rested Sanchez had the forward not insisted he was fit to play, saying: “Of course we are concerned but you go through spells like this in the season. We will have to assess the injuries tomorrow”.

Former club Bournemouth had bids rejected as they looked to lure him back to the south coast and, although he ultimately remained a Norwich player, he was rarely given the opportunity to feature. “It looks to me like a fair result”, he said. The worrying thing is it got worse during the game.

“I thought Arsenal died, physically, at one point”, he added. We just will have to up our game in our next match. “It is about trying to make sure we curtail them as much as we possibly can, but also to try and expose the weaknesses that they have got”. And with Coquelin not there to shield the defenders, that back four could be badly exposed in the coming weeks.

“Every game is important at the moment, it is so tight so we don’t want to drop any points”.