Arsenal have been dealt a blow with a Paris Saint-Germain star returning to training ahead of their crucial Champions League semi-final second leg clash.
The Gunners are up against it in their bid to reach the final of Europe’s premier competition, trailing 1-0 and having to go away from home and try and overturn the deficit.
PSG have proven themselves to be one of the form teams in the competition, beating the likes of Liverpool and Aston Villa on their ways to the last-four, where they were drawn against another English club.
And they showed up again at the Emirates last week, with Ousmane Dembele scoring the only goal of the game – in the opening minutes – as the Gunners struggled on their own turf.
There was a slight worry for the French champions, though, when Dembele went off injured with 20 minutes left in the tie. He has not played for his team since, sitting out of their 2-1 defeat by Strasbourg at the weekend.
In a major boost for the side, though, their star man has returned to training with his team, and is expected to be fit for the second leg on Wednesday evening.
Arsenal have been dealt a blow ahead of their clash with PSG, with one of the French side’s star men returning to training
PSG were impressive in the first leg, with Ousmane Dembele scoring the only goal of the game early on
Dembele has scored 33 goals and picked up 10 assists in all competitions so far this season
Dembele has been emblematic of the transformation of Luis Enrique’s side since the turn of the year and has registered 33 goals and 10 assists in all competitions this term.
In a medical update on Friday, a statement from the French giants read: ‘Ousmane Dembele has strained his right hamstring. His condition in progressing well.
‘A further assessment will be carried out shortly.’
Enrique confirmed that Dembele would not play in PSG’s game against Strasbourg this weekend, with the league title already confirmed.
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The Frenchman gave a rather optimistic forecast of his condition after the win over the Gunners, insisting that he was ‘OK’ despite feeling ‘a little something’.
Enrique added: ‘We’re going to try to get Dembele back on the pitch. If Ousmane can play, that’s better, not if he doesn’t, we’ll still be a real team. We’ve been saying that since the start of the season.’
Enrique made 10 changes to his side for the league game at the weekend, with only Joao Neves starting the defeat.
Desire Doue and Fabian Ruiz both came off the bench, but other stars such as Vitinha, Khvicha Kvaratskheila and Willian Pacho were all unused substitutes.
