According to Football London, Lucas Perez missed Arsenal’s 3-1 defeat to Chelsea with an ankle injury.

The Spaniard picked apparently picked up what’s described as a ‘minor’ problem during training and wasn’t risked.

His absence had fans wondering if he was ‘the new Joel Campbell’, easily jettisoned by the manager when he has plenty to choose from, but the presence of youngster Jeff Reine-Adelaide in the squad in his place makes more sense if he did have a knock.

The former Deportivo la Coruña man has already missed a chunk of the campaign with an ankle problem, and it remains to be seen whether not he’ll be fit for the game against Hull this weekend.

Arsenal will be assessing the fitness of Mohamed Elneny who played in the AFCON final on Sunday night, but despite scoring the opening goal saw his Egypt side lose 2-1 to Cameroon.

He went into that game with a calf injury, so let’s hope he was 100% for that one.

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