Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after a scan showed “significant” damage to his ankle.The midfielder suffered the injury on international duty with Norway and missed Sunday’s north London derby win at Tottenham.Boss Mikel Arteta gave a gloomy update on Odegaard’s condition ahead of Thursday night’s Champions League clash with Atalanta in Italy.“The scan showed some damage around the ligaments in the ankle so we are going to miss him,” said Arteta.“It’s something quite significant so we are going to lose him for a while. Hopefully not months.”
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00:00Is there an update on Martin and how long he might be out for?
00:16Yeah, after a recent scan, the scan showed there was some damage, especially one of the
00:21ligaments in the ankle, so we're going to miss him, yeah.
00:24Can you give us a rough guideline?
00:27I don't want to do that because I'm not a doctor, but it's something quite significant
00:33so we're going to lose him for a while.
00:35Months, not weeks?
00:37Hopefully not months, but we'll see.