Arsenal supporters are afraid that Riccardo Calafiori may have sustained an injury against Leicester after being photographed with knee support at the Emirates.
The Gunners overcame a second-half scare to defeat the newly promoted Foxes 4-2, with Gabriel Martinelli, Leandro Trossard, and Kai Havertz scoring before Wilfred Ndidi’s late own goal.
Calafiori, Arsenal’s £42 million summer transfer from Bologna, started his second English Premier League game and played the entire 90 minutes in north London.
However, Calafiori collapsed as Arsenal players celebrated Trossard’s goal on the stroke of half-time, and the Italy international subsequently fell awkwardly when vying for a header with Odsonne Edouard.
Television cameras filmed the left-back holding his left knee, which he damaged in 2018 and was out for over a year.
Arsenal face Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League in only two days, and the image of Calafiori wearing a knee compression sleeve while collecting autographs for fans may raise concerns.
Mikel Arteta is anticipated to deliver an update during his post-match news conference on Monday.
David Raya, Jurrien Timber, and Ben White’s health was called into question before of Arsenal’s victory against Leicester, with all three suffering ailments in the build-up to Saturday’s game.
Raya and Timber both began and finished the game, however White could not recover from his groin injury in time and was unable to participate.
Oleksandr Zinchenko, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Mikel Merino, and club captain Martin Odegaard are still out with injury.
While Arsenal gave up a two-goal lead, Arteta said he was ‘pleased’ with his team’s overall performance.
‘I am really delighted with our performance, the way we played, the opportunities we created, how we dominated the game, and after 2-0, the result should have been much higher,’ the Spaniard told reporters at his post-match news conference.
