The way things are, we’re ready to fear the worst. News that Wojciech Szczesny has pulled out of the Polish squad for the international break sounded like another big blow.
Szczesny has been one of the few dependable rocks in the squad. So how badly injured is he? The Arsenal website is fairly low key on the story, describing the problem as a mild back strain.
They say: “Wojciech’s withdrawal due to this mild injury is precautionary and the Polish keeper will stay in England and work at London Colney during the international break.”
Of course, official pronouncements on injuries are now greeted with a big dose of scepticism after various predictions regarding returns to fitness have been well wide of the mark.
The Independent opened their piece by talking about the ‘injury curse that has blighted Arsenal’. But at the end of the article they point out that Arsenal expect him to be playing in the next game, against Sunderland, and that Poland are only playing two friendlies.
Sounds to me like the international break has come at the right time for Szczesny. He can spend a fortnight on the massage table knowing that he hasn’t let anyone at Arsenal or in Poland down.
Maybe Arsenal fans can just go back to worrying about Vermaelen, Wilshere, Sagna, the increasingly mythical Diaby …….
Actually there seems to be some better news on Vermaelen, that the reported setback has been overblown. Hmm we’ll see. Maybe I’ll balance my optimism over Szczesny with not getting excited yet over Vermaelen.
No hanging around on Sagna’s treatment it seems, the he has apparently had surgery on his ankle already to ‘stabilise the fracture’. Now he can just sit back and watch Arsenal like the rest of us, through the gaps in the fingers over his eyes.
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