{"id":844,"date":"2026-03-13T15:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=844"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:12:50","slug":"arteta-provides-update-on-odegaard-and-trossard-press-conference-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Arteta provides update on Odegaard and Trossard | Press conference | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mikel Arteta provided another update on the fitness of our first team squad ahead of our Premier League meeting with Everton.<\/p>\n<p>The boss first confirmed that there were no fresh injury concerns after our 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Odegaard and Leandro Trossard both missed our trip to Germany, but could be in line to return before the international break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll see,\u201d Mikel said at the Sobha Realty Training Centre, \u201cwe will have to wait and see and speak to the doctors on whether they are involved or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the majority of our first-team squad available for selection over the coming days, the boss was asked whether he had a line-up in mind for the Carabao Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, because we come from five games in very short periods of time again.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"dedc2787-25b9-4496-a4df-fc196c653c48\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"125207\" about=\"\/news\/fpl-focus-how-add-value-raya-reaches-no-1\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title\" title=\"FPL Focus: How to add value as Raya reaches no. 1\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  FPL Focus: How to add value as Raya reaches no. 1 <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<p>\u201cYou just have to go game by game, understanding who can play a certain amount of minutes, who doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe for the next game you have an idea of what you can do, but two or three games away is quite difficult at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a crucial week which sees us play in the Premier League, Champions League and Carabao Cup Final, several of our players will head out on international duty.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how we\u2019ll manage our players\u2019 minutes while they\u2019re away, Mikel emphasised the positive relationships he has with the national team managers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have really good communication with most of them and we have a thorough decision just like they do on how we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>They have communication with the players themselves as well and what they expect, and that was a way to see how everybody is, have those conversations and make the right decisions.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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":"<p>Mikel Arteta provided another update on the fitness of our first team squad ahead of our Premier League meeting with Everton. The boss first confirmed that there were no fresh &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","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\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}