Arsenal: Mikel Arteta issues fresh Martin Odegaard injury update ahead of Bayern Munich clash | OneFootball

Club captain is nearing a return to first-team action

Mikel Arteta has revealed that Martin Odegaard could feature in Arsenal’s Champions League encounter with Bayern Munich on Wednesday.

Now, however, the Spaniard has said that Odegaard could play against Bayern tomorrow, having taken part in team training on Tuesday.

“We are going to have a meeting now to decide as well on Martin,” the Arsenal boss said at his pre-match press conference.

“He was very close for the previous game. We are hopeful that tomorrow he can be in the squad as well.”

Arsenal sit second in the Champions League table behind tomorrow’s opponents, having won all of their four games on the continent so far.

A return for Odegaard will come as a huge boost for Arteta, but it will give the head coach a selection headache when considering Eberchi Eze’s recent form, with the England international hitting a hat-trick against Tottenham over the weekend.

Arteta also gave an update on Viktor Gyokeres and Kai Havertz’s fitness, with both players’ absences leaving Mikel Merino as the makeshift No9 once more for the north Londoners.

Neither will be available against Bayern, but the Arsenal boss hopes to have both the Swede and the German fit and ready to play for their game against Chelsea this weekend.

“Really good both of them,” Arteta said of the pair.

“So in the next few days, again, I think they are going to have a repeat scan to see how everything is and whether we can push them - or not - for the weekend or the following game.”