Arteta on Rice fitness and other injuries pre Chelsea

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Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta on the fitness of Declan Rice and other injury concerns ahead of their Premier League clash with Chelsea Sobha Realty Training Centre, London Colney, London, UK

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00:00Could I just ask you first of all if you can clarify the position with regard to Declan

00:04Wright and the issue he has and if he's going to be available for the game?

00:08I have to be very vague on that one because there's no clarity whether he's going to be

00:11fit or not for the weekend.

00:13There's been reports maybe that there might be a broken toe, can you elaborate on that?

00:18That's for the doctor, what I can say is that he hasn't trained yet and it's not clear whether

00:24he's going to be available or not to play.

00:26Is he in a position where he can start this game?

00:31Yeah, everybody that is in the squad is going to be fit and available to start the game,

00:35so then it will be a decision whether it's too early or it's the right moment for him to

00:40make that step again.

00:42I guess that would mean the same for Kai Havertz and Mika Mourinho,

00:45they've come through okay and available?

00:47Yes, we'll have to wait until tomorrow to see how they react.

00:50Kai was quite a nasty cut and he could not continue, we have to take him off.

00:55With Mikel, since the day before, to be fair, he wasn't feeling great

00:58and we decided to stop him at half-time.

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