Arsenal suffer injury blow in Mansfield clash but Mikel Arteta change immediately pays off

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Arsenal had the banana skin tie against Mansfield Town but they didn't come through it unscathed, picking up an injury inside the first-half.

Arsenal have been handed a fresh injury worry after Leandro Trossard was forced off after 37 minutes. The Belgian attacker went down inside the Mansfield half unchallenged and looked frustrated as he trudged off, being replaced by Piero Hincapie.

Mikel Arteta fielded an attacking side against the League One side with a place in the quarter-final, alongside Liverpool, at stake. But the injury to Trossard forced the Spaniard into an early change which forced him to alter his 11, which featured teenagers Max Dowman and Marli Salmon.

Concerns were raised shortly before half-time when Trossard was left on his haunches with no players around him. The Belgian has been forced to battle recurring injury problems throughout the Gunners' campaign with the North London club competing on all four fronts.

Arteta moved Norgaard, who deputised in the backline, into midfield allowing for Hincapie to return to the back four alongside Riccardo Calafiori and Cristhian Mosquera and just three minutes later, it paid off.

Arsenal broke the deadlock as Noni Madueke curled into the far corner with a superb effort. Liam Roberts could only parry a stinging long-range effort as far as Gabriel Martinelli who teed up the England international and he unleashed a superb effort which nestled into the back of the net.

It was a potential banana skin for the Premier League leaders against the side sitting 16th in the League One table.

Nigel Clough's side made a positive start in unfamiliar circumstances for the top-flight club. Rhys Oats was a threat for Mansfield and came close with a swirling effort while he proved a problem for Calafiori with the 31-year-old getting in behind on numerous occasions but the hosts were unable to apply the finish.

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