It's a really good exercise and the boys are willing to do anything we demand them to do, so that's a really good thing, too." Saka's absence comes before a busy period for the Gunners with nine matches in January.

Mikel Arteta is not quite sure how his Arsenal team will look without Bukayo Saka in it, but one thing he does know is that they will be “different”. Arsenal are set to be without Saka for “many weeks” after he tore his hamstring during the Gunners’ victory at Crystal Palace last Saturday and it will force Arteta into a major rethink.

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