Arsenal striker has labelled his time off the club’s first team as frustrating and mentally tiring. The England international had an eight-month injury lay-off that saw him miss Euro 2016 and has disrupted his time at Arsenal, where he has had a couple of niggling issues since recovering from that knee complaint.
‘I missed the last Euros and you miss however many months of the Premier League season and that’s the one thing you want to do as a footballer – you want to be playing football on the football pitch and enjoying playing the game that you love. When you get an injury, that takes it away from you but there’s things that you can do to try and take it in a positive way however hard it may be.
‘With it being an injury, it is so negative, but you try and get the positives out of it, see what you can do to learn from the game. You might not be able to play but you still learn mentally and that sort of thing, so I think you’ve just got to try and find that positive.