Mikel Arteta and his medical team will use this weekend to determine the availability of Thomas Partey, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Gabriel Jesus ahead of Monday’s trip to Sheffield United.
It’s an 8pm kick-off in the Premier League at Bramall Lane and all four players could be in contention, depending on their progress this weekend.
“Thomas had a session before the last game and now he’s done two consecutive sessions so he should be part of the squad on Monday,” Mikel explained in his pre-match press conference at Sobha Realty Training Centre on Thursday afternoon.
As for Zinchenko and Tomiyasu, “those ones are possible but we have to wait and see, especially with the last two sessions that we have on Saturday and Sunday,” Mikel added.