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Arsenal suffered a blow Wednesday, when Bukayo Saka left the match against Bayern Munich early in the first half. He felt a sharp pain in his quad/thigh area and couldn’t continue. Mikel Arteta didn’t give us any comfort with his comments after the match saying, “It does not look good at all. They [Arsenal medical team] are a bit concerned. A player who has to come off with a really sharp pain is never good news but we have to wait and see.”
There has been frustration and worry about Saka this season; I think that most of it has been misplaced and overblown but it has still been there in the fan base. Now that Saka is looking at at least a few weeks and potentially a couple of months out, the realization of what it means for Arsenal to play without him is hitting people. I guess there is nothing like an absence to get people to reevaluate a player’s true impact.
It is still very early so we don’t have a good estimate for the time that he will miss. I think optimistically it would be 3-4 weeks and a more worse case might be more like 8-12 weeks. Here is what the next 2 months look like for Arsenal for what they will face over this time.