{"id":76859,"date":"2025-10-18T04:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76859"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:13:20","slug":"odegaard-injury-blow-as-arsenal-captain-faces-weeks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/18\/odegaard-injury-blow-as-arsenal-captain-faces-weeks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Odegaard Injury Blow as Arsenal Captain Faces Weeks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal captain Martin \u00d8degaard has suffered a knee injury that will keep him out for several weeks, dealing a major blow to the Gunners\u2019 title push.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8degaard sustained a medial collateral ligament issue in his left knee during Arsenal\u2019s 2-0 win over West Ham before the international break.<\/p>\n<p>He also missed Norway\u2019s recent fixtures, and manager Mikel Arteta has confirmed that no return date has been set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be weeks. There\u2019s no fixed timeline, but he\u2019s making good progress,\u201d Arteta said at his pre-match press conference ahead of Saturday\u2019s trip to Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>The Arsenal boss praised \u00d8degaard\u2019s professionalism, describing the 26-year-old as \u201cvery unlucky\u201d and \u201cmeticulous\u201d in his fitness routine.<\/p>\n<p>With \u00d8degaard sidelined, Arsenal may reshuffle their attack, with Eberechi Eze likely to fill the creative midfield role.<\/p>\n<p>In better news, Piero Hincapie has returned to full training and could make the squad, while Noni Madueke and Kai Havertz are also nearing recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Arteta urged focus as Arsenal look to maintain top spot in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve raised the level; now the challenge is to sustain it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Arsenal captain Martin \u00d8degaard has suffered a knee injury that will keep him out for several weeks, dealing a major blow to the Gunners\u2019 title push. \u00d8degaard sustained a medial collateral ligament issue in his left knee during Arsenal\u2019s 2-0 win over West Ham before the international break. He also missed Norway\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76861,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76859\/revisions\/76861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}