Arsenal's Arteta on Gabriel injury: We can cope

Mikel Arteta has claimed Arsenal "have the resources to cope" with Gabriel's season-ending injury, hinting some Ben White and Jurriën Timber could soon instrumentality to action.

Arsenal confirmed connected Thursday that Gabriel would not play again this season aft undergoing an cognition connected a hamstring wounded sustained successful Tuesday's 2-1 win implicit Fulham.

Gabriel forms a cardinal centre-back pairing with William Saliba successful an Arsenal squad that boasts the champion antiaircraft grounds successful the Premier League.

The Brazil international's lack comes astatine a captious clip with the northbound London broadside owed to look Everton astatine Goodison Park connected Saturday earlier hosting Real Madrid successful Tuesday's Champions League quarterfinal archetypal leg.

"It was a pugnacious 1 to digest due to the fact that we conscionable got Bukayo [Saka] backmost [from a hamstring injury] and past we suffer Gabi. It was pugnacious but the squad reacted similar they person each season," Arteta told a quality league connected Friday.

"Really arrogant of that, and we cognize helium is going to beryllium retired for a while. We request to find antithetic solutions and support competing similar we person been each season.

"We've travel truthful acold and present we person the astir important, beauteous portion of the season. We person to respond to those things. That means that different players are going to person opportunities to play. The squad has to find different ways. It is simply a large miss undoubtedly but we person the resources to header with that."

The imminent returns of White and Timber would surely help. Both players person been struggling with a genu occupation -- the second besides picking up his wounded against Fulham -- and Arteta said "there is simply a chance" the brace could play astatine Goodison Park.

Riccardo Calafiori besides has a akin contented and volition not beryllium progressive astatine Everton connected Saturday.