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Madueke facing lengthy spell out with the knee injury he sustained against Manchester City

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Mikel Arteta has confirmed that Noni Madueke faces weeks on the sidelines.

Madueke was forced off at half-time against Manchester City on Sunday

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Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Arteta said: “It looks like he is going to be out for a few weeks. We don’t really know yet. Probably we are going to have to scan him next week again.

“He felt something at the beginning of the match. He tried to carry on and at half-time it was too sore, so let’s see.”

Madueke also impressed for England during the recent international break, scoring in the 5-0 win over Serbia and Arteta is hopeful the winger will be sidelined for weeks rather than months.

“We hope so, we hope so. As I said, we need to scan him again to see the real extent of the injury, but it doesn’t look too bad,” Arteta added.

“He was gutted. Obviously, it was very disappointing to see him [injured] because he was in such a good state. He looked a real threat.

“He was getting some consistency, some flow now into the team and he looked like a real threat. It’s a big miss for us.”

Saka returned in the 1-1 draw with Manchester City when he replaced Madueke at half-time, but Mikel Arteta will want to ease him back into the team.

Arsenal face Port Vale in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday and they are set to be without captain Martin Odegaard, who is still out with a shoulder injury, but has avoided an operation.

Arteta said: “No, no surgery. He is totally fine. He has already been training and it will be a matter of days, I think.”

No operation: Martin Odegaard

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Arteta is set to make changes to his team for the trip to Port Vale, with teenager Max Dowman one of those that could come into the team.

Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly should also start, while there could be full debuts for summer signings Christian Norgaard and Kepa Arrizabalaga.

Fellow new arrival, Piero Hincapie, missed Sunday’s draw with City due to injury and Arteta gave an update on him on Tuesday, saying: “He picked up a little groin injury. We have to, again, assess him in the next few days, [see] how he goes.

“Obviously, it has been a change of load and he didn’t really have a pre-season after the surgery that he had. And we have to see in the next week or so how he is.

“I think that will be short term.”