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Team news: Partey and Vieira updates

Mikel Arteta provided updates on the fitness of Thomas Partey and Fabio Vieira ahead of Saturday’s game against Burnley.

“Thomas Partey is progressing really well,” he said in his pre-match press conference on Friday morning.

“I don’t want to say too much but he’s looking very good and he’s on the field already.

“[Fabio] is very close. He's been training already for a few days with the team, so I think it's very close. He'll be back probably faster than we expected and he's in a good place.”

Speaking more generally on the fitness of the team for Saturday, Mikel added: “Some of them have been progressing better than others.