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Mikel Arteta has confirmed that he will hold talks with Thomas Partey about his injury and the incident that influenced Tottenham’s second goal in the North London derby.
Arsenal suffered a 2-0 defeat to their rivals on Sunday, with Harry Kane and Son Heung-min combining for both goals.
The second goal was much easier when Partey left the field as the Spurs undertook a counterattack. The midfielder was stopped with an injury.
Arteta frantically tried to get him back on the pitch, but it was too late. The space was already unoccupied and Tottenham was clinically facing the goal.
Partey was making his first appearance since returning from an injury he sustained in November. It seems that you have now suffered a recurrence of that problem.
However, Arteta continues to maintain that the summer signing should have stayed in place.
He said: “I was trying to push him back onto the field because I don’t think he realized the seriousness of the situation when he left his position, but it was probably because he was in a lot of pain.
“There is nothing we can do at this time to solve that.
“It happened so fast, I think it was a four-on-three situation for us and all of a sudden they were coming towards us and Thomas was walking towards me. I wanted him to be on the field doing everything possible for the team in that situation.
“I tried to pressure him, I haven’t talked to him so I don’t know exactly how it happened and if he felt something really serious. We will look at it and then talk about it.
“It is in the same area, unfortunately. We don’t know how bad it is. They’ll do an MRI. “
Experts criticize Partey, Xhaka
Arteta was not the only one who was dismayed to see Partey leave the field. Sky sports Expert Graeme Souness was also puzzled by the situation.
Also midfielder Granit Xhaka was also questioned for not covering Partey.
“Leaders don’t allow that to happen on a soccer field,” Souness said. “If he’s injured, he yells at people ‘I’m injured’, if you look at (Granit) Xhaka, he leaves (Giovani) Lo Celso to run into the box, as a midfielder – as a central midfielder – the alarm bells are ringing.”
“We go forward, all the time you are looking over your shoulder, where we are vulnerable, but they just empty the space, Lo Celso recovers it, ready, 2-0, game over … possibly”
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