{"id":483408,"date":"2026-02-16T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:40:08","slug":"i-wanted-to-try-it-mikel-arteta-hints-at-new-role-for-bukayo-saka-at-arsenal-after-fa-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483408\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I wanted to try it&#8217; &#8211; Mikel Arteta hints at new role for Bukayo Saka at Arsenal after FA Cup win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arteta also had praise for summer signing Eberechi Eze who bagged two assists and shone for the Gunners after a tough time recently. He added: &#8220;Yes, some superb balls and his intentions, I think the risk that he took in the final third, the amount of shots that he tried to take as well, I think that&#8217;s really positive. That&#8217;s what we want from him. That&#8217;s what those players need, those moments and especially when we talk about the creative players, they need to feel that they are producing those moments and I&#8217;m very happy with that, very happy with Gabi as well, the run that he made, the timing of that and then the finish in action, really, really positive. So it&#8217;s good for the mood, for the confidence, it&#8217;s a really good thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arteta also had praise for summer signing Eberechi Eze who bagged two assists and shone for the Gunners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[3361,244988,64,63,244987,98551,596,6189,85,153955],"class_list":{"0":"post-483408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-arsenal-vs-wigan","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-b-saka","13":"tag-fa-cup","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-m-arteta","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-wigan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}