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Bukayo Saka went off injured in the 2-2 draw at Bayern Munich, and Arsenal now face an anxious wait on his quadriceps. There was no tackle involved, because the pain came from an ordinary swing of his left boot, and that took the shine off a good night in Munich. As of today he's listed as out with no known return date, and a sharp pain in the quadriceps makes Everton at the Emirates tomorrow look a long shot.
Mikel Arteta's options out wide look like Eberechi Eze, Noni Madueke and Max Dowman, which is plenty of depth when his best winger is missing. Eze has the strongest case because he came on for Saka in Munich and scored the opener on 25 minutes from Martin Ødegaard's pass. Madueke won the game at Nottingham Forest with an 80th-minute goal on 18 October, so he isn't short of form either. Everton tomorrow starts a run of five games in 15 days, and Liverpool at Anfield on 1 November is the one where Saka's absence would hurt most.
Losing him took some of the gloss off a point that Declan Rice's late equaliser rescued. The draw on 21 October was Arsenal's ninth straight away game in the Champions League without defeat, the longest run in the club's history in the competition. It leaves them seventh in the league phase on seven points.
Bruno Guimarães, who shared that midfield with Rice in Munich, has admitted that leaving Newcastle cost him nights awake and plenty of tears at St James' Park. He sounds settled now, because he called Rice "an unbelievable player, unbelievable guy" who has helped him since his first day. He played more as a 6 in Munich with Rice more as an 8, and he said the manager is still working out the best version of the pair. If their positioning really was the problem in the 3-0 defeat at Brighton on 19 September, a clear split between the two roles is the obvious fix, and Munich made a decent case for it.
In the academy, substitute Emerson Nwaneri's stoppage-time equaliser earned David Horseman's U19s a 3-3 draw with Bayern Munich, which leaves them 18th in the Youth League before a trip to leaders Slavia Prague.
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