With many stars playing, three of our squad have withdrawn from international duty.<\/p>\n
After going off in the first half against Uruguay, Noni Madueke will not participate in England’s second international friendly against Japan at Wembley.<\/p>\n
Noni will be returning to the Sobha Realty Training Centre alongside Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka, who didn’t feature against the South Americans on Friday.<\/p>\n
The trio make up eight withdrawals from Thomas Tuchel’s squad, including former Gunner Aaron Ramsdale, Fikayo Tomori, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, John Stones and Adam Wharton.<\/p>\n
Martin Zubimendi has withdrawn from the Spain squad following their win over Serbia, with Ecuador’s Piero Hincapie also returning to London after their draw with Morocco.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elsewhere, Viktor Gyokeres, Riccardo Calafiori and Christian Norgaard are hoping to get their nations to the World Cup in Mexico, USA and Canada.<\/p>\n Fresh from his fine hat-trick, Viktor’s Sweden will host Poland in a rematch of the 2022 World Cup playoffs. <\/p>\n Christian was also in the goals, heading home for Denmark in a 4-0 win over North Macedonia. The Danes will now head to Prague to take on Czechia after they downed Ireland.<\/p>\n Lastly, Riccardo is in action in Bosnia and Herzegovina after Italy dispatched Northern Ireland 2-0 in Bergamo. <\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fresh from his first England goal, Ben White will be hoping to be involved once more as the Three Lions face Japan at Wembley.<\/p>\n Ben prodded home from close range in the draw against Uruguay in his first appearance for his country since 2022.<\/p>\n Kai Havertz also made a return to his national team, starting for Germany for the first time since 2024 in a 4-3 win over Switzerland. Germany now face Ghana in Stuttgart on Monday.<\/p>\n Cristhain Mosquera will be hoping to add to his debut for Spain when La Roja face Egypt. The defender came off the bench late on in the 3-0 win over Serbia for his maiden cap.<\/p>\n Gabriel Martinelli and Brazil will round off the internationals for our Gunners when they face Croatia in Egypt in the early hours of Wednesday, April 1.<\/p>\n Our first match back from international duty will be the Emirates FA Cup quarter-final against Southampton at St Mary’s on Saturday, April 4 at 8pm.<\/p>\n *all times UK<\/em><\/p>\n England U19 0-2 Serbia U19<\/strong> Denmark 4-0 North Macedonia<\/strong> Italy 2-0 Northern Ireland<\/strong> Ukraine 1-3 Sweden<\/strong> Brazil 1-2 France<\/strong> Andorra U21 1-1 England U21<\/strong> England 1-1 Uruguay<\/strong> Switzerland 3-4 Germany<\/strong> Spain 3-0 Serbia<\/strong> Morocco 1-1 Ecuador<\/strong> Germany (Havertz) v Ghana<\/strong> Portugal U19s v England U19s (Dowman)<\/strong> England U21s (Lewis-Skelly, Setford) v Moldova U21s<\/strong> Bosnia and Herzegovina v Italy (Calafiori)<\/strong> Czech Republic v Denmark (Norgaard)<\/strong> Sweden (Gyokeres) v Poland <\/strong> England (White) v Japan<\/strong> Spain (Mosquera, Raya) v Egypt<\/strong> Brazil (Martinelli) v Croatia<\/strong> Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World Cup qualifiers and preparations for this summer’s finals are in store this week for a host of our Gunners as the international break comes to an end. A trio … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Superb Gyokeres hat-trick fires Sweden to win <\/span>
\n <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nshowdowns in Europe<\/h2>\n
What our Gunners need to reach the World Cup <\/span>
\n <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nMore Gunner goals?<\/h2>\n
FULL LIST OF CONFIRMED INTERNATIONAL GAMES<\/h2>\n
Wednesday, March 25<\/h3>\n
Max Dowman started, played 88 minutes<\/p>\nThursday, March 26<\/h3>\n
Christian Norgaard netted late on in the victory<\/p>\n
Riccardo Calafiori played the full 90 minutes, kept a clean sheet<\/p>\n
Viktor Gyokeres netted a hat-trick<\/p>\n
Gabriel Martinelli played 62 minutes<\/p>\nFriday, March 27<\/h3>\n
Lewis-Skelly played the full 90 minutes<\/p>\n
Madueke started, White scored off the bench<\/p>\n
Havertz started, played 62 minutes<\/p>\n
Mosquera made debut, Zubimendi played 13 minutes, Raya unused sub<\/p>\n
Hincapie started, played 72 minutes<\/p>\nMonday, March 30<\/h3>\n
Friendly | Stuttgart | 7.45pm<\/p>\nTuesday, March 31<\/h3>\n
Euro U19 Qualifier | Guimaraes, Portugal | 4pm<\/p>\n
Euro U21 qualifier | Norwich | 7pm<\/p>\n
World Cup qualifier | Zenica | 7.45pm<\/p>\n
World Cup qualifier | Prague | 7.45pm<\/p>\n
World Cup qualifier | Solna | 7.45pm<\/p>\n
Friendly | London | 7.45pm<\/p>\n
Friendly | Cornella | 8 p.m<\/p>\nWednesday, April 1<\/h3>\n
Friendly | Orlando USA | 1am<\/p>\n<\/div>\n