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Arteta salutes Arsenal's survival spirit
December 29, 2025
|The Star
MIKEL Arteta praised Arsenal's refusal to let their Premier League title challenge be derailed by injuries after they survived another debilitating 24 hours to beat Brighton 2-1 on Saturday.
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Arteta’s side were rocked by an injury to Dutch defender Jurrien Timber in training on Friday.
As if that was not bad enough, Italy fullback Riccardo Calafiori joined Arsenal’s growing list of walking wounded when he picked up a knock during the pre-match warm-up ahead of the Brighton clash.
Ben White and Cristhian Mosquera were also ruled out, so Myles Lewis-Skelly came in at left-back and England midfielder Declan Rice started at right-back.
Despite their fitness problems, Arsenal ground out their third successive one-goal league victory to reclaim top spot from Manchester City, who won 2-1 at Nottingham Forest a few hours earlier. Hailing Arsenal's spirit and togetherness in adversity, Arteta said: "What I like is that we are having a lot of issues and we are dealing with it in an incredible way.
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