Double Injury Blow For Arsenal After Cup Exit

Arsene Wenger is waiting on the extent of injuries suffered by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott following Arsenal's 3-0 Capital One Cup defeat to Sheffield Wednesday.

Oxlade-Chamberlain lasted just three minutes of the Hillsborough clash before pulling up with a tight hamstring before Walcott, who was on as a replacement for his England team-mate, suffered a calf injury 15 minutes later.

Wenger will be hoping their injuries are not serious as he bids to navigate a busy period which sees Arsenal travel to Swansea and Bayern Munich in the next eight days before facing rivals Tottenham at the Emirates next Sunday.

"We lost two important players in the first part of the game," Wenger told Sky Sports 1 following the shock defeat.

"We are short now. It was a big blow for us tonight, but even more for the other competitions which are important for us, to lose players of that stature."

"The injuries are two muscular injuries, how big the damage is I don't know. We have to make scans and we have to wait 48 hours for the scan. It's was a bad night at the office for us. We lost the two players and after that we were not good enough.

"I have to manage the workload of the players and at the end of the day I still think I maybe brought too many experienced players here.

"We lost two players and after that I had Gabriel [Paulista] and [Nacho] Monreal on the bench but I couldn't bring them on because I couldn't afford to lose any more players."