Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta has revealed that he is worried after star defender William Saliba twisted his ankle in the 1-0 defeat against Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday, Softfootball reports.
The French defender had earlier twisted his ankle during warm-up for the match and it wasn’t long into the first half when he felt the pain after landing awkwardly from a challenge and had to be substituted with new signing Cristhian Mosquera.
Speaking to Arsenal’s official club media after the encounter, Arteta was happy there was a ready-made replacement for the game but when asked if he was worried about Saliba’s injury. He replied:
“I am because you cannot play a game of that stature. After you tried [to], that means that there is something wrong.
“He twisted his ankle during the warm-up, and he came in and he said he believed that he could carry on and play, but straight away in the first two actions. I could see that he couldn’t cope, and we had to get him out unfortunately. But thank God we had Mosquera, which we put in for the first time in the Premier League. His debut, not expecting it at Anfield, and I think he was really, really good.”
On the game plan itself that saw Liverpool win the game only through a magical freekick by Denmark Captain Dominik Szoboszlai. Arteta said:
“We didn’t do our gameplan to frustrate them; we did it to win it. I think we elevated the game and the dominance to a point that they had to raise it. They did, especially from the 60-78th minute, when then you could see that there were no margins in the game. When that happens, the game is going to be decided in two ways. One, with an individual error, and two, with a magic moment. Szoboszlai created a moment that was incredible, that has won the game, and that was the difference, nothing else.”
Arsenal lost their unbeaten record in the 2025/26 premier league season and will return to action against Nottingham Forest on September 14 after the international break.
