Arsenal injury update as Viktor Gyokeres and Gabriel Martinelli return timeline emerges

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Arsenal are targeting the North London Derby for the return of Viktor Gyokeres and Gabriel Martinelli . The Gunners are hopeful the duo will be able to feature following the international break, which begins next week.

Gyokeres scored against Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday but failed to emerge after half-time after sustaining a muscle issue . The Swede has not travelled for Arsenal ’s Champions League clash against Slavia Praha and is not expected to feature against Sunderland this weekend, either.

Mikel Arteta conceded that he was worried over Gyokeres' prognosis when previewing Arsenal's European fixture. “I am concerned because he hasn’t had many muscular issues and he had to leave the pitch,” Arteta said

“He was feeling something and that’s obviously never a good sign. Especially for a player that is very, very explosive, so we are digging in a little bit more to understand where we are in terms of the injury and we will announce it when we know more."

It has now emerged that Arsenal are hopeful both Gyokeres and Martinelli will be in a position to return to action before the end of the month, per The Athletic .

Arteta also revealed Gyokeres was downbeat after his progress was halted. "He was very disappointed after the match with what he felt, but this is part of football," said Arteta.

"At the end of the day, if you expect a linear line, everything going up, it's not going to happen. If he's got something he's going to have to deal with, we will help him to do that.

"As you said, he was in a really good moment, in a really good form, it's very important for the team. But for tomorrow, we don't have him, so that's it."

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The forward's recovery may just be the spearhead of a whole host of stars returning to contention in time to face Tottenham . The likes of Noni Madueke, Kai Havertz and Martin Odegaard could yet be back in the squad, while Martinelli has already missed Arsenal's last three games.

"I would say weeks and some of them pretty soon hopefully if they keep evolving the way they are doing," Arteta said of that group of injured players last week. "It's difficult to put a game, you know that we have the international break, which is a two-week break there, and after that I think we'll have some back.

"I don't know if it's going to be all of them, some of them, but we'll be quite close by then."

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