Leeds: Arteta drops Jesus injury update

Leeds United have been handed a probably enormous enhance forward of their Premier League assembly towards Arsenal on Sunday.

What’s the speak?

In current feedback cited by Arsenal.com, Mikel Arteta revealed that, regardless of preliminary reports suggesting that Gabriel Jesus had been unnoticed from the Gunners’ squad towards Bodo/Glimt on Thursday night as a precaution, the centre-forward nonetheless stays a doubt for the present Premier League chief’s journey to Elland Street this weekend.

When requested whether or not the 25-year-old can be out there for choice towards Leeds, the Spaniard stated: “I don’t know, clearly he has some discomfort after the sport towards Liverpool. That’s why we determined to not carry him in [to Norway], so let’s see how he’s [on Friday] and Saturday.”

Enormous enhance

Contemplating simply how spectacular Jesus has been since his £45m transfer to the Emirates Stadium this summer season, it will undoubtedly come as an enormous enhance to Jesse Marsch and Leeds’ possibilities of choosing up a constructive consequence towards the Gunners if the Brazilian is unavailable for his group’s journey to Elland Street on Sunday afternoon.

Certainly, over his nine Premier League appearances thus far this season, the £105m-rated expertise has been in sensational kind. Jesus has scored 5 objectives, registered three assists and created three massive possibilities for his team-mates, along with taking 3.3 photographs (1.7 of which have hit the goal), making 1.6 key passes and finishing 2.4 dribbles per recreation.

These returns have seen the £265k-per-week ahead common a fairly astonishing SofaScore match score of 7.31, not solely rating him as Arteta’s third-best performer within the league but additionally because the 24th-best participant within the prime flight as an entire.

As such, with Jesus evidently being one of the crucial harmful strikers within the Premier League at current, it’s clear to see that the 25-year-old’s potential absence towards Leeds is nice information for Marsch and his facet.

The Brazil worldwide’s absence would undoubtedly present the Whites’ possibilities of securing some extent, or maybe even all three, towards the Gunners with an enormous enhance.