Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta will be absent for his side’s Premier League clash with Manchester City after testing positive for coronavirus.
The Spaniard is who now isolating is however expected expected to do press duties before the Premier League game on Thursday.
This is the second time, Arteta is testing positive for Covid, in March 2020, days before the shutdown of English football at the start of the pandemic, he contracted the virus.
His assistants, Albert Stuivenberg and Steve Round, will be in charge on matchday against City.
The Gunners were without a number of players during their 5-0 win against bottom placed Norwich on Boxing Day due to coronavirus, with the club confirming that Calum Chambers, Cédric Soares, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Ainsley Maitland-Niles have contracted the virus.
Their game with Wolves on Tuesday was called off due to an outbreak in Molineux stadium.
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