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Arsenal receive a triple injury boost before they face Crystal Palace: Will all of them get starts?

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Arsenal take on Crystal Palace in the first match of the 22/23 Premier League season and Mikel Arteta could have an almost fully fit squad to choose from.

So far, as many as four players were out injured but speaking to the press, the manager has admitted that most of them will be back in training and there’s a big chance they will be available for selection on Friday night.

The Arsenal manager told the press(h/t the club’s official website): “Three out of four of those players [Tomiyasu, Smith Rowe, Tierney, Vieira] are going to be training this afternoon and if everything goes well, they will be available for selection and in the squad.

“Hopefully, we can start to recover because they’ve been missing a lot of minutes and time in pre-season and they are really important players for us.”

Tomiyasu and Kieran Tierney are two players who had picked multiple injuries last season and the manager has also talked about this, claiming that these constant setbacks were due to the lack of squad depth.

He added: “The reason they got those persistent injuries are for different reasons, probably because the squad didn’t enable them to recover, and [we] don’t play them when it was necessary and it was too tired when they weren’t fully recovered so sometimes we had to rush them.

“It was a combination of things with those two players, they’re so pushy and willing to contribute with the team. We know that with those two fit and performing at their best, we are much stronger as a team.”

We expect Tierney, Tomiyasu and Vieira to go through late fitness tests on Friday meaning Emile Smith Rowe is the one who is not going to be fit in time.

He sustained a groin injury just a few days ago so there’s no way he is going to be risked against Palace. Even all the other players won’t be rushed into action and if required, they will only get a watching brief from the bench.

Thankfully, the manager has backup for each and every injured player so, unlike last season, he does not need to take any unnecessary risks, not at least in gameweek one.

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