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Arsenal are getting ready for the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City.
The Gunners are viewed as slight favourites going into the game because of the form they are in, but anything can happen at Wembley.
Mikel Arteta would love to have all his players available for the game on Sunday, but there are a few doubts ahead of the game.
One of them is Eberechi Eze, if training pictures are to be believed.
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Credit: GRV Media’s TalkingPoints Eberechi Eze not spotted in Arsenal training session ahead of Manchester City clash
Eze has been one of Arsenal’s best players recently.
The Englishman added two more goals to his tally against Tottenham Hotspur in the North London Derby in February. Most recently, he scored a screamer against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League.
At that point, Eze was nailed on to start in the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City, but the attacker pulled up with what looked like an injury late in the game.
Eze was replaced at that point, and on Friday, he was nowhere to be seen in training.
Arsenal released 40 pictures on their website from a session at the Sobha Realty Training Centre, and the Gunners’ number 10 was not spotted in any of those images.
That has raised some concern ahead of the final, especially since Martin Odegaard’s availability is in doubt as well because of his knee injury.
If both Eze and Odegaard are ruled out for the game, Arsenal will be in big trouble.
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Credit: Getty Images/Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA Mikel Arteta could be playing mind games ahead of the Carabao Cup final
Eze not being spotted in training is definitely a concern, but on the flip side, it could well be Arteta playing some mind games ahead of the game.
After the win over Bayer Leverkusen, Eze confirmed that his injury is not serious and that he would be fine for the cup final on Sunday.
“Yeah, I’m alright, I’ll be ok,” he said right after the game.
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If that is indeed the case, Arteta and his coaching staff could well have instructed Arsenal’s media team not to release any photos of the Englishman in training, just to give Pep Guardiola something to think about.
We’ll have to wait until the team news is out on Sunday to find out what the status actually is on Eze. We really hope he is fit to start.
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