That's all for today's live page then. We kicked it off with reaction to Sunday's Premier League games, which included an entertaining win for leaders Liverpool at Tottenham and another home defeat for Manchester United against Bournemouth.

We also had some breaking news to bring you and it was not good for Arsenal fans, with influential winger Bukayo Saka being ruled out for "many weeks" with a torn hamstring.

We'll be back tomorrow to look ahead to the rest of the festive fixtures and bring you any more football updates. Hopefully see you then.

The only Premier League game Bukayo Saka has missed this season was the 2-0 loss at Bournemouth in October, again because of a hamstring injury.

It is one of only two league defeats for the Gunners so far this campaign.

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Christian, Liverpool: I feel like the phrase "stay humble" has never been used more than it has these last few weeks. Even Nuno is at it now. Sly dig?

Bukayo Saka's importance to Arsenal and England means he has played more than 50 games for club and country in all competitions in each of the last four seasons, including appearing in two European Championships and the mid-season 2022 World Cup.

• 2020-21: 55
• 2021-22: 52
• 2022-23: 58
• 2023-24: 57

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Nuno Espirito Santo was asked about Nottingham Forest's plans in the January transfer window and, although he didn't share too much, he admitted that there are plans to be active:

"Honestly, we have two games to go [before the window opens].

"This is what we're focussed on. Of course there is work to be done but in the right moment we will do it.

"But now the focus is on Spurs and how well we compete again."

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Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo on his and his players' confidence after moving up to fourth in the Premier League:

"I'm always confident. Since the start of last season I've always been confident that good work, dedication and commitment can achieve good results.

"I'm very proud of the players with the way they're working every day and staying humble - and recognising that we have a lot of things to improve and a long way to go."

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Bukayo Saka has been an increasingly important goalscorer for Arsenal over the last few seasons, since making his debut in 2019.

He has scored 12, 15 and 20 goals in all competitions for Arsenal in the past three seasons, which represents 16%, 15% and 18% of Arsenal's total goals that campaign.

He has scored nine goals so far this season (more than 16% of Arsenal's total), missing just two of of the Gunners' 26 matches - because of a hamstring injury. They were the Gunners' 2-0 defeat at Bournemouth in the Premier League and their 1-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League.

They also score more goals and concede fewer on average when he is in the team, though the win percentage is similar - 57.2% when he plays compared to 56.2% when he doesn't.

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Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo has held his news conference and, although he didn't reveal who, he says some players have 'knocks' after Saturday's win at Brentford:

"It was a very tough game. We came in today, with players doing recovery with knocks.

"We are still assessing. I think we still have time to make some decisions."

A reminder that Nottingham Forest have longer-term absentees with Ibrahim Sangare and Danilo out until next year.

Arsenal fans will obviously be concerned about the length of Bukayo Saka's injury absence, but they can take heart from another Premier League player who suffered a similar injury.

In January, Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders said Mohamed Salah had suffered a "proper tear in his hamstring" playing for Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations.

He sustained the injury on 18 January, but was back playing for Liverpool just a month later on 17 February.

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Bukayo Saka had already suffered two minor hamstring injuries this season, yet has only missed two games for Arsenal.

They both came after the winger's first hamstring injury while playing for England in October.

The 23-year-old also went off injured against Chelsea in November, ruling him out for England during the last international break, but was able to start in the Gunners' next game against Nottingham Forest on 23 November.

Since the international break, Saka has started eight of Arsenal's game, playing 90 minutes in five of them.

Apart from his early withdrawal at Palace, he has also been taken off on 74 and 83 minutes, and came on for 20 minutes in the Carabao Cup win at Preston.

Arsenal

Finally, from Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta, on how Saka responded to the news: "He was gutted.

"You can tell he's not been injured [seriously before] because he was really emotional, he was really down. We need to lift him up because he's part of what we do. It's part of his job, and he will be fine, but he's going to need a few days.

"He's going to immediately realise that he's so important in that dressing room. His energy level, his body language, the way he communicates with the rest of the team, because it's the only way at the moment that he can help, so he better do that well."

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Mikel Arteta on whether Gabriel Martinelli can fill Saka's void, as he moved over to the right wing after Saka was injured at Crystal Palace: "Yeah, that's the first one we went through, especially because he's played there before.

"He played the last match there against Everton and the last match of the season. He did really well. He did really well the other day, he scored a goal and created an assist and is a good option to have."

On other players who could play on the right wing: "Gabby [Jesus] has played there. Ethan [Nwaneri] has played there, Leo [Trossard] can play there in relation to how that unit moves. Kai [Havertz] can play there, asking him different things.

"We will see, try different things and ask how they feel about it."

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There's no-one more important to Arsenal than Bukayo Saka, right?

He's got 15 goal involvements in the Premier League already - that's from five goals and 10 assists.

Kai Havertz is the closest player to Saka with eight goal involvements from his six goals and two assists. But that's the potential problem for Arsenal, Saka is key in creating goal-scoring chances.

With Saka on 10 assists, Declan Rice is the next player on Arsenal's assist list with three, then Havertz and three other players with two.

Remarkably, 40% of Arsenal's Premier League assists this season have come from Saka.

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Mikel Arteta was asked whether Saka has torn his muscle, rather than strained it. Arteta responded with a simple, "yes".

Have to say, it did look worrying when Saka left Selhurst Park using crutches.

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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on whether Saka's injury is a result of playing too much:

"It's probably an accumulation of a number of seasons. Bukayo and Declan [Rice], they've played over 130 games in two seasons so what's going to happen in the second one, the third one, the fourth one? If that continues the same way, it's probably unsustainable.

"And we have to find ways to physically turn them into monsters. That they can cope with anything. The fact that you play and recover is not a good pattern because you don't train. And the body needs to train. You start to lose a lot of factors in the physical aspect that's key to performance.

"That's a challenge which, OK, we're trying to find ways to do it."

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