The dust is still settling from Arsenal pulsating win over Luton Town, and thoughts would be on Takehiro Tomiyasu, that missed the game through injury.
In all three seasons at Arsenal, Tomiyasu has suffered injuries that has kept him out at key moments of each campaign. He had maintained a stronghold of the right back slot in his maiden campaign before a calf injury saw him miss two months of game time. This was at a critical time when the Gunners were vying for a Champions League finish, and his absence, alongside Thomas Partey and Kieran Tierney saw Arsenal struggle at the back, leading to missing out on Champions League football entirely.
Last season saw Arsenal challenge for the Premier League title and the emergence of Ben White as right back, after losing his place in the middle to William Saliba saw Tomiyasu earn reduced minutes, but he still featured a lot in the division, and played pretty much all the domestic cup and Europa League games. It was in the Europa League Round of 32 clash with Sporting CP that Arsenal lost Tomiyasu to what can only be classified as a freak injury. Tomiyasu twisted his knee awkwardly and required surgery to mitigate the issue ending his campaign abruptly.
After his rehabilitation, Tomiyasu returned this season and struggled to get into the team but Jurrien Timber’s season ending knee injury, coupled with Oleksandr Zinchenko out of action, Tomiyasu played on the left hand side of the defense for an extended run of games but lost his place after an unfortunate red card at Selhurst Park in the narrow win over Crystal Palace.
With White having injury issues, Tomiyasu got a good run of games and showed good form, kept White out of the side until this latest news Mikel Arteta shared – Tomiyasu is out for four to six weeks, which will see him miss the critical festive fixtures for Arsenal.
This is sad news, but Arsenal has to soldier on without Tomiyasu for the next couple of weeks.
Sayonara.
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