Source: Liverpool_Echo
Mikel Arteta waking up from injury nightmare - Everton boss David Moyes
Mikel Arteta 60[LNB]DAVID MOYES believes Mikel Arteta is finally putting his injury nightmare behind him.[LNB]The Spanish playmaker spent the best part of a year recovering from a cruciate ligament problem before making his comeback against Birmingham in the FA Cup in January.[LNB]Since then, Arteta has played seven games in just over a month and admitted to feeling the strain after last weekend's defeat at Tottenham.[LNB]With a week off to recuperate ahead of Sunday's match against Hull, Moyes is confident Arteta will now start to feel the benefit of being back in the fold and can focus on getting back to his best.[LNB]'Mikel has been important for us,' said the Everton boss.[LNB]'In the last day or two I've seen signs that he's starting to feel a bit better. He'll now be starting to lose that feeling that he's been injured for 11 months.[LNB]'He'll now be thinking that he's back playing football and starting to forget about his injury.'[LNB]Moyes says injuries have forced his hand in Arteta's case, who otherwise may not have played so many games so soon after returning from such a lengthy lay-off.[LNB]'We do need to wrap him in cotton wool a little bit,' agreed Moyes.[LNB]'But we've had a situation where we've been a bit short of players in that role.[LNB]'Jack Rodwell's come in but we've lost Marouane Fellaini.
