{"id":368015,"date":"2025-08-23T20:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368015\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:01:13","slug":"arsenal-reeling-from-new-double-injury-scare-as-liverpool-nightmare-scenario-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368015\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal reeling from new double injury scare as Liverpool nightmare scenario emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool news as Arsenal duo Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka suffer injuries before a trip to Anfield next weekend<\/p>\n

19:38, 23 Aug 2025Updated 20:18, 23 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

\"BukayoBukayo Saka has handed Arsenal an injury scare ahead of the game against Liverpool(Image: Crystal Pix\/MB Media\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Arsenal are reeling from a double injury worry ahead of the game against Liverpool next weekend.<\/p>\n

The Gunners have been dealt a significant scare as they appear to have lost captain Martin Odegaard and winger Bukayo Saka to injury eight days before the big fixture.<\/p>\n

Last season Arne Slot’s Reds cruised to the Premier League<\/a> title with Arsenal following closest behind as runners-up. Due to this fact, the early-season meeting between the pair at Anfield<\/a> is being tipped as one that could have a long-term impact on the new title race.<\/p>\n

But today Liverpool’s rivals have been handed a new problem as they face making the trip to Anfield without their captain and one of their most influential attackers.<\/p>\n

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First, Odegaard was removed from the action with 38 minutes played of Arsenal’s second match of the season against newly-promoted Leeds United on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

The Norwegian midfielder had gone down earlier in the first half under challenge from a Leeds player and looked to be in discomfort with his shoulder, though he indicated to Arteta he would be okay to continue.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the problem became too much and he was replaced by 18-year-old Ethan Nwaneri.<\/p>\n

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After the injury, Saka had doubled his side’s lead with his first goal of the new season. That joy was curtailed when he was substituted with what appears to be a left hamstring issue in the 53rd minute.<\/p>\n

Saka was making a run toward the Leeds penalty area under pressure and decided to pass to a teammate. He instantly pulled up, went to ground with discomfort and had to be replaced by Leandro Trossard.<\/p>\n

“That’s the negative. Martin felt something in his shoulder; we will have to scan that tomorrow. Bukayo felt something in his hamstring when he was running with the ball,” Arteta told reporters in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

“We will have to speak tomorrow with the doctors. So just wait.”<\/p>\n

Last season the Gunners’ captain scored six and created 12 goals in all competitions whilst Saka registered 12 goals and 14 assists of his own. Arteta is staring at a nightmare scenario being without the duo for Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Adding to the problem is the fact Kai Havertz suffered a knee injury on the opening weekend of the season, meanwhile Gabriel Jesus came into the campaign still in recovery from surgery.<\/p>\n

To soften the blow, Arsenal did announce the \u00a367.5 million signing of Eberechi Eze from Crystal Palace before kick-off against Leeds. Arteta will have to make the call if he plays 90 minutes against on debut against the Reds or not.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Slot himself has a crisis of sorts brewing after Jeremie Frimpong was ruled out until after the September international break<\/a> with a hamstring injury. He therefore misses matches against Newcastle United and Arsenal.<\/p>\n

Fellow right-back Conor Bradley has only just returned to training meanwhile Joe Gomez is battling his way to full fitness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool news as Arsenal duo Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka suffer injuries before a trip to Anfield next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[6167,10234,748,393,4884,179,763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-arsenal-fc","9":"tag-barclays-premier-league","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-liverpool-fc","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115079864960412360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}