Mikel Arteta made revolutionary changes in his team's preparation before matches. The reason was the abnormal amount of pain that the Arsenal players take during the warm-up hour.

The last setback came in a week when Riccardo Calafiori was injured just a few minutes before the game, which became the fifth such incident this season. For the 2025/26 season, Arsenal already spent time in the starting warehouse literally before entering the field:.

Riccardo Calafiori: injured before the FA Cup game against Wigan and the Premier League match against Brighton. Bukayo Saka: picked up before the game with Leeds. William Saliba: injured his ankle before the match against Liverpool.

" This is not obvious. “It’s amazing, this has happened about twice in the six years since I’ve been here, and then four times in a short period,” Arteta admitted before the match against Wolverhampton.

Arteta admitted that the club can go to an unprecedented length of time - completely limiting the intensive warm-up before the match. There is an argument that I will take a break between the halves if the gravers rely on 15 minutes and the games will immediately begin to increase their intensity.

“I myself was a gravel and I know that singing routines help the body to understand: “it’s going to hurt”. It’s easy to change.

What will happen if we don’t bother to warm up It’s good to think about this,” - the size of the Spanish fakhivets.

The coach also recognized that this situation was more alarming. " When I’m in the office before the game and hear a knock at the door, I think: “No, be kind.”. Because if you change the game two weeks before the match, you have to change the whole plan for the game,” added Arteta.

While Arsenal prepares for the trip to Wolverhampton, the coaching staff are eager to embrace new surprises, with the Premier League leadership at stake.