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Mikel Arteta is thinking about using an Arsenal defender as a striker after Kai Havertz’s injury
Mikel Arteta might turn to a defender to help in the wake of Kai Havertz’s season ending hamstring injury, TBR Football exclusively understands
Havertz suffered a hamstring injury during Arsenal’s w🌳arm weather trip to Dubai, an injury the Gunners sim🌼ply couldn’t afford.
Arsenal were offered three strikers in January, but the club ultimately chose to hold firm giv𝐆en that none of their main targets were available 🎶in an accelerated deal.
Arsenal want Benjamin Sesko or Alexander Isak in the summer, but neither were going to leave their 🥀clubs mid-season.
That being said, H🍌avertz has now joined Gabriel Jesu🧸s in Arsenal’s treatment room and Arteta has a problem to solve.
Arsenal could turn to defenders to help after Kai Havertz injury
Graeme Bailey – chief correspondent at TBR Football understands that Arsenal are consid♛ering the use of a defender to help out in wake of Havertz’s injury.
Beyond Jesuꦐs and Havertz, Leandro Trossard seem🅷s like the most likely candidate to play as a false nine for Arsenal.
READ MORE: Arsenal sources indicate whether theyღ could sign a free agent after🐬 Kai Havertz injury news
However, Arteta will think about using a defe༒nder in an auxiliary when appropriate until the end of the season.
Defenders like Ben White or Riccardo Calafiori could be an option for example, a situation whiꦦch is going to be very ad hoc for the Gunners.
Havertz has only been absent for two games since joining Arsenal, missing consecutive games in January owing t🔯o illness.
Mikel Arteta only just praised Kai Havertz for his ‘robustness’
Havertz’s injury comes at an incredibly unfort🥂unate time for Arsenal, who are💎 also still without Bukayo Saka as a source of goals.
And when speaking only a week or so ago, Arteta was actually haili❀ng Havertz for his ‘robustness’, a striker who had been responding well to the physical demands💟 of his minutes.
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Speaking at his press conference, Arteta said: “He’s played a lot of football but his robustne🍌ss, his availabili💫ty is unbelievable.
“You ask him, he feels better when he’s playing every three days, against Giron🥃a for example, we give him a rest and then he felt fresher, he had a very demanding game physically against City for the role that he had to do.
“Genetically, he is a powerhouse, he’s so well-built, he’s a player that anythi♏ng you can ask him, speed running, [running into] zone six, to be very robust, to make long-distance [runs], he’s happy to do.”
A far from ideal situation, but one that Arsenal will have to b꧋e creative to navigate.