Mikel Arteta hopes to have Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli back after the next international break.
They could even return to Fulham on Tuesday 1 April, to give Arsenal's Run-in a huge boost after their devastating injuries.
It means that Arsenal will be without Saka and Martinell for the next six games, but the hope is that they will train in that period and then be ready for the business end of the campaign.
Gunners-wing player Martinelli sustained a hamstring injury at the Semi Final defeat of Carabao Cup in Newcastle and his resignation is uncertain. But Martinelli, who went to Dubai last week in the warm weather break of the club, is making steady progress and hopes to be back to give Arsenal's injury hit a big lift.
Saka underwent an operation on his Hamstring -Torms in December and was depicted in the gym last week because his rehabilitation and recovery is going well. The first prognosis was that he pushed at the end of February to train and then be fit to play in March.
That now looks a realistic target to remove the fear that he could be out longer in the midst of suggestions that he can be put aside for two months. But Saka will now perform his rehabilitation in the course of the coming weeks, return to the training and then go up with his teammates.
England has back-to-back World Cup qualifications with Albania and Latvia on 21 and 24 March respectively and Saka will miss the first matches of Thomas Tuchel. But it now looks realistic for him to play soon afterwards is a huge help because Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz have been excluded all the rest of the season.
It should mean that Arsenal will have their wing players back for the title run and also a potential final of the Champions League quarter. It is after suggestions that Saka had had a small setback in his comeback, something that Arteta refused to confirm prior to the weekend profit against Leicester.
Asked if those reports were true, Arteta simply replied “no” before he added: “We have a long -lasting injury, what is faster? In a ten -day injury, three days is a lot. But it is too early, he is in himself in An early stage of rehabilitation.
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