Arsenal: Eberechi Eze reveals injury update after scare before Carabao Cup final | OneFootball

Gunners star went off after receiving treatment in Champions League win over Bayer Leverkusen

Eberechi Eze has allayed injury fears ahead of the Carabao Cup final after his Champions League heroics for Arsenal.

The England midfielder was in sparkling form on Tuesday night as Mikel Arteta’s side beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 in the second leg of their last-16 tie, securing a 3-1 victory on aggregate.

The former QPR and Crystal Palace star delivered a fantastic overall display full of clever flicks and tricks, but there were concerns when he went down and received treatment for a possible ankle issue with just over 20 minutes to play in north London.

Arteta took no risks with Eze, who was replaced by Kai Havertz - who saw a third goal for Arsenal against his former club disallowed for handball - as part of a rare quadruple substitution, with one eye firmly fixed on Sunday’s Carabao Cup final against title rivals Manchester City at Wembley.

But asked about an injury after the game, Eze told TNT Sports: “Yeah, I’m alright. I’ll be okay.”

On his thunderous strike against Leverkusen, he said: “I don’t know if I could dream of scoring a goal like that to be fair.

“It was a good goal, I just saw an opportunity to shoot and I’m thankful to God that it’s worked today.

“It was a special goal for sure, I’m going to remember it for a long time. Hopefully it’s the first of many in the Champions League for me. I’m going to be watching this one for a long time.

“It’s a difficult team to play against, we saw that when we went there. We knew that it would take moments like this to put the game in our favour. As a team, we did that today.”