{"id":245937,"date":"2025-09-22T08:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/245937\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:49:14","slug":"martin-odegaard-offers-update-on-unfortunate-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/245937\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Odegaard offers update on \u2018unfortunate\u2019 injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/08\/29\/arsenal\/1231973-mikel-arteta-issues-latest-injury-update-on-martin-odegaard-and-bukayo-saka-ahead-of-liverpool-clash.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Odegaard <\/a><\/strong>missed the match against <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/09\/19\/arsenal\/1234361-mikel-arteta-believes-without-a-doubt-that-man-city-arechallengers-for-the-premier-league.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man City <\/a><\/strong>as he is on the mend after an \u201cunfortunate\u201d series of injuries. He shared the progress on the journey to recovery in the club\u2019s matchday programme.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t<strong>\u2018It\u2019s a strange one\u2019<\/strong>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Odegaard fell awkwardly on his shoulder in a 5-0 win over <strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/08\/24\/arsenal\/1231510-we-have-to-be-very-proud-arteta-happy-with-his-teams-5-0-thumping-of-leeds-united.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>and looked back at the incident. It is a big blow, but he is doing his best to be fit for the first team as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy shoulder was very sore, but I\u2019ve just been taking it day by day this week, working hard. It\u2019s the same shoulder I hurt in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/08\/29\/arsenal\/1232018-mikel-arteta-confident-that-eberechi-eze-can-make-immediate-impact-in-liverpool-clash.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a><\/strong> game, pretty much the same injury, so just really bad luck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After another collision, a recurrence of the issue against <strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/09\/15\/arsenal\/1233818-zubimendis-statement-performance-shows-arsenal-have-more-than-one-midfield-general.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nottingham Forest<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>forced him to leave the pitch at the <strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/09\/02\/arsenal\/1232521-hincapiehighlights-the-wonderful-things-that-came-from-talks-with-a-former-arsenalplayer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emirates Stadium<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>in under 20 minutes for the second time in a mere matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first injury healed well, I was over it, but then the same thing happened again. It had never happened to me in 11 years, but it happens twice in two weeks. It\u2019s a strange one, very unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the second phase of a set-piece, Odegaard rushed after the ball, and <strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/08\/24\/arsenal\/1231500-arsenal-5-0-leeds-united-arsenal-player-ratings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jurrien Timber<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>threw himself across the floor in a sliding tackle to take care of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/09\/13\/premier-league\/1233606-angepostecoglous-nottingham-forest-key-players-who-can-flourish-under-new-manager.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Gibbs-White<\/a><\/strong>. It was, as he admitted, an innocuous moment, so he holds no hard feelings against anyone over the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge itself was fine. I think three of us went for the same ball, and I felt something connect with my foot which kind of flipped me forward, and I couldn\u2019t do anything about how I landed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had excelled for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/08\/26\/arsenal\/1231726-arsenal-handed-surprise-odegaard-boost-ahead-of-liverpool-showdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norway <\/a><\/strong>on international duty between the two tumbles, assisting <strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/09\/20\/arsenal\/1234429-pre-match-analysis-arsenal-host-manchester-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erling Haaland<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>twice and scoring once in an 11-1 thrashing of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/international-football\/2025\/06\/07\/1225068-spalletti-states-this-is-not-who-we-areafter-embarrassing-italian-defeat-in-norway.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moldova<\/a><\/strong>. It is an annoying setback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really tough to come off because I was excited to be playing at home again, feeling good after the internationals and really wanting to be out there after coming off in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vavel.com\/en\/football\/2025\/08\/24\/arsenal\/1231525-tactical-review-arsenal-vs-leeds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a><\/strong> game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Odegaard missed the match against Man City as he is on the mend after an \u201cunfortunate\u201d series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":245938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[5407,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-245937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115247091780377348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}