ARSENAL are sweating on the fitness of Ezri Konsa ahead of Saturday’s clash with Hull.
The defender was forced off during the second half of in the on Wednesday night.
appeared to be holding his knee early in the game, but played on before coming off just after the hour mark.
said: “Obviously he’s playing a lot. He’s played so many games in the last few weeks and he had some issues and we decided to take him off.”
will hope the injury is not serious as they are hosting in the on Saturday.
The Gunners do, at least, have back to full fitness for the first time this season.
The star has been out since the summer after at the World Cup.
Saliba was on the bench for the win at Prague, but he did not get on the pitch as replaced Konsa.
Speaking about the win, Arteta said: “Always we need to value winning away in the Champions League.
“It is extremely difficult. This was two very different halves. We should have had three or four goals in the first half but we didn’t do it.
“Right at the start of the second half we were on the back foot, very sloppy and gave balls away. Then we had to suffer. A lot to learn.
“We should have scored more in the first half and if we didn’t do that we had to go and do that in the second half.”
