{"id":477028,"date":"2026-02-15T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477028\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:09:10","slug":"arsenal-martin-odegaard-injury-update-as-he-reveals-severity-of-knee-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477028\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal: Martin Odegaard injury update as he reveals severity of knee issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has revealed an update on his knee injury after he picked up the issue during his side\u2019s 1-1 draw against Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>27-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/martin-odegaard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Odegaard <\/a>has been criticised for his disappointing form this season, though it has been a stop-start campaign for the midfielder due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Odegaard came off the bench in the 1-1 stalemate at Brentford and picked up another knee issue that means he is unlikely to feature for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/arsenal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal <\/a>against Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>But Odegaard has shed light on his current situation after he was initially \u201cworried\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI picked up a bit of an injury when they (Brentford) scored their goal, but hopefully it\u2019s not too bad,\u201d Odegaard wrote in Arsenal\u2019s programme.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/feature-ten-pl-shocks-arsenal-spurs-relegation-man-utd-sack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ten 2025\/26 PL shocks that could still happen, include Arsenal failing to win title, Spurs relegation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll see how it goes in the build-up to today\u2019s game and over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to clear the ball as it came down, but instead kicked into the player a bit, and ended up over-stretching my leg, which pinched the knee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able to carry on, but on Friday morning it was very sore, so I was worried of course, but thankfully it looks like it\u2019s not too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arteta-told-copy-title-winning-managers-arsenal-entitlement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal \u2018entitlement\u2019 bites them again as Arteta told to learn from Ranieri and Mourinho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cToday it\u2019s a change of focus in the FA Cup, which is a big target for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis group of players hasn\u2019t had a run in this competition, and it\u2019s definitely something we want to do. We know we can do better in this competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years, we\u2019ve gone out quite early, so that\u2019s something we want to make better and it\u2019s another competition we want to go all the way in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are also without Mikel Merino and Kai Havertz, so they are short of midfield options at an important stage of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Their issues would not be quite so bad if they had not loaned Ethan Nwaneri to Marseille in January, but head coach Mikel Arteta has backed the decision to let him leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s easy to say,\u201d Arteta said when asked whether he regrets letting Nwaneri leave on loan in January.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/shearer-claims-arsenal-lost-star-summer-signing-not-answer-pl-title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shearer claims Arsenal \u2018better\u2019 without \u2018lost\u2019 star as another summer signing not \u2018the answer\u2019 for PL title<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter making the decision, who could have predicted that Mikel was going to be out for five months and Kai?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate, at the end we have to make the decisions on the moment, understanding the context there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best decision for the club, for Ethan, for sure it was for him to go and experience a different environment, have minutes played, and get ready to come back to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Roberto De Zerbi leaving Brighton, he added: \u201c\u2018Well, I cannot control that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, it\u2019s a decision and that\u2019s part of playing on loan, and that\u2019s part of a journey of a football player. So you\u2019re going to have to work with different coaches, and that can happen any moment, you cannot control that, you cannot avoid that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has revealed an update on his knee injury after he picked up the issue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[498,49,48,1613,94748,44,574,561,82,4390],"class_list":["post-477028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-home-page","tag-martin-odegaard","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}