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Arsenal Team News vs Burnley – No Thomas Partey or Granit Xhaka

Where to start?

It was plainly obvious that a number of Arsenal players were sorely lacking match fitness against Liverpool. Takehiro Tomiyasu was way off the pace and Emile Smith Rowe hadn’t even had a single training session prior to the match as he recovered from injury.

Martin Odegaard returned to the team after contracting Covid, and while he too didn’t train he nonetheless sparkled on a dim night.

With numbers so thin across the board it looks like all the returning cast will have to feature again, unless, that is, if new signings arrive. Unfortunately, the window for registration is increasingly small and, quite simply, it doesn’t look like happening.

To compound the misery, Thomas Partey received a second yellow card and subsequent sending off that now rules him out of a game it seemed he’d never be back for in the first place. Over the moon with his early return, it’s back to Sambi Lokonga being the only midfielder available as Xhaka serves the final of his two-match suspension.

Elsewhere there will be checks on Bernd Leno, Calum Chambers and Cedric Soares, who all missed the Liverpool match with injury.

In the case of Burnley it’s impossible to know what to expect. They’ve now had five Premier League matches postponed, including their midweek clash with Watford, due to Sean Dyche having only ten available players for that fixture.

Fingers are crossed they can even put a team out.

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