{"id":1307,"date":"2026-04-03T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:25:54","slug":"mikel-arteta-defends-11-arsenal-players-who-have-given-up-on-joining-their-national-team-as-gunners-treble-race-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta defends 11 Arsenal players who have given up on joining their national team as Gunners&#8217; treble race intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"A\">\n<div>\n<p><span>The injury list grew significantly following Arsenal&#8217;s defeat to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final. William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes were among the first to withdraw, with ankle and knee problems respectively, followed by Martin Odegaard, Jurrien Timber and Eberechi Eze. The situation worsened when the players returned to their training centers, with Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka and Martin Zubimendi among the five other players who returned to London Colney prematurely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The roster includes a wide range of talent at different positions, including Leandro Trossard, Noni Madueke and Piero Hincapie. Arteta remains evasive on exactly how many of these stars will be available for the upcoming FA Cup quarter-final against Southampton, preferring to keep his cards close to his chest ahead of the trip to St Mary&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The injury list grew significantly following Arsenal&#8217;s defeat to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final. William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes were among the first to withdraw, with ankle and knee problems respectively, followed by Martin Odegaard, Jurrien Timber and Eberechi Eze. The situation worsened when the players returned to their training centers, with Declan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}