Thomas Partey suffer muscle injury after Arsenal's loss to Aston Villa

Arsenal have been handed huge blow with the latest injury to Thomas Partey. The former Atletico Madrid star was substituted in the 1-0 loss to Aston Villa. 

Arsenal traveled to Villa Park to face Dean Smith on Saturday early kick off. The Gunners were behind after one minute when Ollie Watkins scored for Villa. 

The Villans held on with a strong defense to grind out the result as they moved two places ahead of Arsenal who are in 10th position. 

With 15 minutes left to play, Thomas Partey went down on the turf and he was attended to by the medical team. 

Partey was replaced by Willian as he couldn't continue. 

After the game, Mikel Arteta confirmed Thomas Partey has suffered a muscle injury. Although, he couldn't state the extent of the injury. 

“He had a muscular injury so we had to take him off," Arteta said. “He could not carry on playing. I don't know [how bad it is].

 "We will see the extent of the injury. He wasn't feeling well enough to continue playing so we had to take him off."

Meanwhile, Arsenal have to plan ahead of their home game against Leeds United next week.