Arsenal injury record: Danny Welbeck to add to 1,931 games missed by Gunners players in last eight seasons
Another week, another Arsenal player injured.
Absences of first team players have become such a common occurrence for the Arsenal fans to endure that scarcely an eyebrow was raised when striker Danny Welbeck was yesterday ruled out until the end of the year following knee surgery.
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Welbeck's latest injury is the 234th to hit an Arsenal player in the last eight seasons – an average of 29.3 per Premier League campaign. No other top club has had more.
In total, a cumulative 1,931 games have been missed by crocked Arsenal players since the beginning of the 2008/2009 season – more than London rivals Chelsea (571) and Tottenham (1,004) put together.
Despite only being at Arsenal for a year, Welbeck had already missed 18 games for Arsene Wenger's side before his the length of his latest lay-off was confirmed.
Yet he is far from the most frequent visitor to the Arsenal physio room. The now-departed Abou Diaby tops the most-injured list in the period monitored, with 212 games missed. Jack Wilshere (122 games missed) is one of five current squad players in the top 10 alongside Kieran Gibbs (95 games missed), Theo Walcott (94 games), Aaron Ramsey (73 games) and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (64 games).
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