Kieran Tierney could have a second chance at nailing down a starting spot at Arsenal in the coming weeks - after it emerged that fellow left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko would be ruled out with injury until the end of the season.
Tierney joined Arsenal for £25million from Celtic in 2019, where he nailed down a starting spot under Unai Emery as the Gunners aimed to banish their Champions League exile with a top-four finish. Emery was sacked just five months into Tierney's spell at the Emirates Stadium, leaving Mikel Arteta to take the hot seat in the red half of north London.
Under Arteta, Tierney had been a key player; with 49 appearances across the previous two seasons, he was well ahead of Nuno Tavares and Sead Kolasinac and even acted as vice-captain. But the arrival of Zinchenko from Manchester City this summer has threatened to end all of that, with the Ukrainian fitting into Arteta's mantra much easier than Tierney does thanks to his ability to play as an inverted wing-back.
