Mikel Arteta has given no assurances that Thomas Partey will play for Arsenal again this season, describing his thigh injury as “significant”.
Partey injured this thigh during Monday night’s 3-0 defeat to Crystal Palace and was forced to limp off in the second-half.
The midfielder has since undergone a scan, which revealed muscle damage, meaning he will definitely miss this weekend’s game with Brighton and next week’s trip to Southampton.
Partey is due to see a specialist and Arteta is unsure if the Ghana international will get back on the pitch this season.
“It is a little bit ambiguous but he has a significant injury and we’ll have to keep assessing him, but he will be out for some weeks,” said Arteta.
“It could be [that he plays again this season] but it could not be the case – because it is an area where he had a previous injury as well and he felt it straight away and he is not fit.
“We lost two big players (Kieran Tierney and Partey), really important plays for us in the team for sure.
“But we’re not going to have them so we cannot be crying for that because they’re not going to be available for us.
“So we have to find other solutions and we have to still be as good and as competitive as he have been.”
