Chelsea have receive a huge boost ahead of Fa cup final with Arsenal with the news claims that defender Shkodran Mustafi looks set to miss out through injury.
However, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has been quoted by Goal as saying he doubts Mustafi will be back to take on the Blues, which could hand a possible advantage to Frank Lampard’s side in what had looked like being a pretty even match.
“I doubt it,” Arteta said in response to a question about whether Mustafi would be fit.
“We have to see how he evolves in the next few days, but at the moment I doubt it.”
Arsenal were strong in defence to cause a bit of an upset by beating Manchester City 2-0 in the semi-final recently, with Mustafi and David Luiz proving key performers in that game.
It remains to be seen who could replace Mustafi in the Arsenal line up, but they have the likes of Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Rob Holding and Sead Kolasinac as options in that position.