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Mikel Arteta hinted during his news conference that one of his players may be out with a serious injury picked up against Manchester City, saying he prefers to deal in "facts" in response to criticisms about 'dark arts'. Here's the exchange between him and the reporter:

Reporter: How many of those are struggling with injuries?

Arteta: "I always prefer the facts than words or supposing things. Let's see who's available tomorrow and then we can talk about dark arts, or these things."

Reporter: Is there anyone not available tomorrow?

Arteta: "Unfortunately, yes, there will be a few players not available. Tomorrow you will find out."

Reporter: No serious injuries picked up on Sunday?

Arteta: "We have to wait. One of them."

Against Manchester City four players [Riccardo Calafiori, David Raya, Jurrien Timber and Gabriel Martinelli] went down during the game to receive physio treatment.

The Monday Night Club's Mark Chapman, Rory Smith, Chris Sutton and Andros Townsend discuss whether Man City's Erling Haaland was lucky to escape punishment for throwing the ball at the back of Gabriel's head after their late equaliser against Arsenal in the Premier League.

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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on Martin Odegaard's return from injury: "It will be a matter of weeks, but how long exactly I cannot tell you."

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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on advising his players to not kick the ball away: "Leave the ball, don't touch the ball. We will play without the ball!"

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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on Carabao Cup aims: "We want to win the game. We have to start with the first game - we have to understand what is the best team we can put out."

On youngsters playing tomorrow: "Great opportunity for any player to show what they are doing in the games. To transform what they are doing in training and perform on the pitch."

On Gabriel and Saliba's partnership: "Obviously we believed that they could become really good together and the chemistry is unique. It is something they have built, and it is something which happened organically."

On Raheem Sterling: "Very good, he had a few minutes already. He played in a few games and Wednesday he has another opportunity.

"He [Sterling] is hungry to have more minutes and to impact the team in the way he can."

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Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

Erik ten Hag wanted to hold his press conference much later this afternoon.

But it would have clashed with FC Twente's media access at Old Trafford, so UEFA asked for a switch.

Manchester United relented, so we are here much earlier than anticipated - and a long time before their training session at 1430 BST.

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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on his side's development: "The team has a desire to compete in any context to win and to adapt. Different competitions and different ways of playing - it is superb.

"Happy? No. Because we wanted to win the three games, but I understand how tough that context is and how difficult it is.

"The things we have to deal with and our own issues with the amount of players we have out. It is a significant improvement and we have to be happy with that."

Mikel Arteta kept very quiet regarding which players may have sustained an injury against Manchester City.

In total four players [Riccardo Calafiori, David Raya, Jurrien Timber and Gabriel Martinelli] went down with cramp. Arteta said: "I always prefer the facts than words or supposing things. Let's see who's available tomorrow and then we can talk about dark arts, or these things.

"Unfortunately, yes, there will be a few players not available. Tomorrow you will find out."

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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on his team after facing Man City: "Yes, fully recovered.

"I take it like a normal game - it was an emotional game, but they all are.

"I am looking forward to Wednesday. We have already moved on and are ready to battle again.

"We learnt from the past as well and unfortunately we have been in that time three times [before], once with Granit Xhaka [sent off against Man City in a 5-0 defeat by Man City]."

On Leandro Trossard's red card: "I reflected post match and it is the same reflection today."

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Mikel Arteta is clearly not in the mood to reflect on the action-packed draw against Manchester City.

Most of the questions about what happened and what was said in and after that match have been batted away.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

Not only have UEFA expanded their club competitions this season, they have already created additional 'exclusive' weeks for all three, so the eight match days are being played over 10 weeks.

This is the exclusive Europa League week, which is why Manchester United take on Dutch side FC Twente - Erik ten Hag's childhood club - having played Barnsley in the EFL Cup last week.

Ten Hag and full-back Noussair Mazraoui, who has excelled since his summer move from Bayern Munich, will be facing the media at 11:00 BST.

Andros Townsend
Luton Town midfielder on the Monday Night Club

Manchester City are also masters of the dark arts. If you have a counter attack, they will pull you down and take the yellow. Manchester City are complaining this time but they are also guilty of being involved in the dark arts.

I've been in many dressing rooms where Man City and Liverpool have brought it. We're told to watch them and look how smart they are, they don't let teams counter, they stop it at source and don't concede goals on the counter.

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After a feisty game on Sunday against Manchester City, Mikel Arteta will be speaking to the media shortly ahead of Arsenal's Carabao Cup game against Bolton on Wednesday.

There's a number of things he could be quizzed on:

• Fresh footage of David Raya's time wasting tactics
• Erling Haaland's 'stay humble' comments made towards Arteta

We will bring you all the key lines.

Surely it isn't that easy to imagine him leaving, Liverpool fans?!

Chris Sutton
Former Premier League striker on the Monday Night Club

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The gamesmanship and time wasting towards the end of the game. As an ex-player, I'm a massive hypocrite because I would have done exactly the same, but watching on the television I can imagine how the Man City players were completely rattled. Arsenal were brilliant at it.

David Raya, 20 seconds at least every time he got the ball. He had a marvellous game but he was a master at it. I don't know how they came up with seven minutes at the end, it could have been 15 or 20 minutes with the nature of their time wasting. They were brilliant at it.

It has always been around. You don't have to be a winning team. Teams have been time wasting since the year dot, that's the way it has been. I think it was far worse if you went back to my era. The issue now is that there are cameras everywhere, so you can't get away with everything as we did back in the day - holding from corners, stepping on toes and things going on in the tunnel before the game.

Andros Townsend
Luton Town midfielder on the Monday Night Club

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It's definitely a rivalry, but it's not a legendary rivalry. To be an iconic rivalry it needs to be City win the league then Arsenal the next year and back to City.

I remember the battle of the Bridge with Spurs against Chelsea. That carried over for a couple of years, so there will definitely be a carry over from this game.

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Chris Sutton
Former Premier League striker on the Monday Night Club

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That's what we want from two teams going head-to-head. We want an edge and an element of dislike. In terms of a rivalry, Arsenal have to win something to make it a rivalry. We can't call it a rivalry if Manchester City are cleaning up and winning everything.

I like it when you see something with Haaland at the end of the game and the 'humble' stuff to Arteta. I think it shows authenticity. That's what we want to watch.

Everyone will be wanting to watch everything when they meet again. You'll want a camera in the tunnel to see what happens in there.

Andros Townsend
Luton Town midfielder on the Monday Night Club

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On Trent Alexander-Arnold possibly leaving Liverpool...

I don't think he wants to leave Liverpool, or is searching to leave. If there is interest from Real Madrid, I don't think you can turn it down. He's won the Champions League and Premier League at Liverpool - he's won the lot.

I don't think you can turn Real Madrid down.

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Liverpool manager Arne Slot on Liverpool's defensive record: "The defence has been really good, although I think in the last game we used our goalkeeper too many times to keep the clean sheet.

"And I looked at the league table, at the positions of the teams that we have faced so far and I think most of them are in the bottom half of the table. There are a lot of difficult teams that we still have to face, so let's see where we are after facing those teams. Maybe the fixture list has been nice to us when you look at the league table."