Arsenal duo Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are set to miss the next three matches through injury, as per reports on ESPN.
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Wenger, however, admitted using “too many experienced players” in the League Cup game.
Both are out for Saturday’s game and until at least after the global break so they are out as well for England.
Oxlade-Chamberlain picked up a hamstring injury after he appeared to roll over the ball awkwardly and was forced off inside five minutes.
It was far from an inexperienced side that Wenger fielded, with Petr Cech, Per Mertesacker, Mathieu Debuchy, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Olivier Giroud all named in the starting XI and the boss was left to rue his selection.
The Gunners are without eight key players and Verheijen believes that Wenger’s inability to assess fatigue among players leads to an accumulation of injuries.
Ross Wallace admits he is targeting success with Sheffield Wednesday this season after inspiring the Owls to a memorable 3-0 thrashing over Arsenal. “They are not ready to play at this level”, Wenger told reporters.
“I can only invite you one day to see what work is done behind and we have a few players who are more injury prone than others, but we are very well organised on that front”. Once I lost two players, I had Gabriel and Monreal and I did not bring them on as we could not afford to lose any more players.
Wenger’s options are being stretched following a raft of injuries and his decision not to sign a single outfield player throughout the summer transfer window. “We know they are nine times better than us as a minimum, On the pitch we were better than Arsenal tonight, but we are not better than them”.
“We have to make scans and we have to wait 48 hours for the scan. We looked very naive”.
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“I want to continue to develop our results and the way we play football and the club as well”.
