Every word from Arteta's pre-Aston Villa presser

Play video Watch Arsenal video online Days after beating Brentford, Mikel Arteta was back facing the press ahead of our trip to Aston Villa on Saturday, December 6.

Mikel provided an injury update and assessed our opponents, who we face at Villa Park at 12.30.

Here's everything the boss had to say at the Sobha Realty Training Centre, or press play on the video above to watch the press conference now:

on Declan Rice’s availability:

Let’s see. I think with all the questions I'm going to get, the answer, unfortunately, is going to be the same. We have another training session in the afternoon. Every hour is going to be very important to see the availability of the players. After that, we'll decide…