Every word Mikel Arteta said on Bukayo Saka fitness, Gabriel Martinelli injury and Timber return

How is Saka?

He’s fine. We haven’t trained, just recovered. We have a short, light session today to prepare the game and we will see if he’s in the best condition to start or not.

Is Luton an opportunity to give him more time to recover?

We’re just thinking about Luton, preparing the game in the best possible way and earn the right to beat them.

Is Martinelli ready to play 90 minutes?

He is because he was available to play against a really tough opponent three days ago. He certainly is today. We will train today and see the state of every player and make the right decision tomorrow.

Is this a time when you need all your squad to be successful?

Yes, we have discussed that and pushing for each other to be available to contribute in any way to help us win and perform consistently at the level we need. We’re going to need everyone.

Have to keep players who haven’t been playing motivated?

Yeah, that’s certainly something really important. They need to feel it and the best way to feel it is to play minutes. When they don’t have that capacity to do it, they have to show it in training and we have to convince them to keep doing it to earn the right to play.

Different way of playing for a result vs City showing the evolution of the squad?

You have to, sometimes because you want to adapt, sometimes you because you have to adapt and have that resilience. Leave your ego aside and your ideology aside and do what you have to do to win the game. I thought the team was mentally really strong and clever the way they did it.

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