Arsenal have suffered an injury scare ahead of the upcoming North London derby following a bizarre incident in Friday’s Nations League clash between Italy and France.
Luciano Spalletti’s side recorded a headline-grabbing 3-1 win over their Group A2 opponents thanks to goals from Federico Dimarco, Davide Frattesi and Giacomo Raspadori.
It was a night full of positives for the Italians, who have struggled on the international scene in recent years.

But a huge setback was an injury to centre-back Riccardo Calafiori. The defender’s evening was cut short following an unusual collision with Ousmane Dembele.
Alessandro Bastoni produced a crunching challenge on Dembele, who went flying into the air, and as he landed the winger caught Calafiori’s calf with his boot, studs first.
After the game, Italy manager Luciano Spalletti gave an update on Calafiori’s situation, saying: “We need to assess Riccardo but with our staff, we’ve a good chance to have him back with us for the next game.”
However, it has emerged that Calafiori has left the Italy camp to be assessed by the Arsenal medical staff ahead of their upcoming Premier League clash against Spurs.
The centre-back, who arrived from Bologna in the summer for a reported £42 million, gave his thoughts on the night in a social media.
Arsenal will be without Declan Rice for Sunday’s game after he was sent off in their 1-1 draw with Brighton last weekend.

Summer signing Mikel Merino is also expected to miss the game following a freak injury in training. In fact, the midfielder will miss a “few weeks” after the shoulder injury.
“Yes, very unfortunate,” Arteta said regarding Merino’s injury. “He had a collision and he has a shoulder injury. It looks like he’s going to be out for a few weeks.”

The Spaniard added: “He was really excited and everything was looking really good. He landed on the floor and Gabi landed on top of him and it looks like he has a small fracture probably.”

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The points were shared during a fiery 2-2 draw at the Emirates on Sunday in Ange Postecoglou’s first ever game against the Gunners.
Bukayo Saka’s shot, which took a big deflection off Cristian Romero, opened the scoring for Mikel Arteta’s side, before Son Heung-min got Spurs level with a well-taken finish.

Saka then converted his spot-kick shortly after the restart and mimicked James Maddison’s ‘darts’ celebration.
However, Maddison got his revenge less than a minute later, sliding in Son for his second of the afternoon after Jorginho was caught in possession.
As expected, there was plenty of back and forth between supporters, and a video of Arsenal fans blurting out a rendition of ‘sit down, if you hate Tottenham’ has since emerged on social media. You can watch the footage below.