Manchester City<\/a> at the top of the Premier League table, and it remains uncertain whether Rice will be fit for the trip to the Vitality Stadium. Here, Express Sport assesses Rice’s likelihood of being able to participate in Arsenal’s match against Bournemouth this weekend.<\/p>\nWhat has been said about Rice’s injury?<\/p>\n
Arteta was quizzed about whether he regretted allowing Rice to play the full 90 minutes during Arsenal’s win over Brighton. Despite appearing to indicate discomfort around the 60-minute mark, the midfielder managed to finish the match.<\/p>\n
“No, no, no. He [Rice] managed to do it. That’s normal sometimes,\u201d Arteta responded. \u201cYou get a hit, and throughout the game you are able with adrenaline, and because you are warm, you are able to sustain that.<\/p>\n
“And then the body reacts, and it reacted probably more than we expected, unfortunately. And that’s where we are.”<\/p>\n
Will Rice be ready to take on Bournemouth in Gameweek 20?<\/p>\n
Fantasy Premier League (FPL) has given Rice a 50 percent likelihood of being fit to play for Arsenal against Bournemouth. Consequently, it remains unclear whether Rice will recover in time to be included in the Gunners’ squad for their away match against the Cherries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have another session today, let\u2019s see how he comes today and how that\u2019s feeling, but [the Villa game] was too early for him,\u201d Arteta stated. In other news, Cristhian Mosquera, Riccardo Calafiori<\/a> and Max Dowman have all been declared unfit for Arsenal’s match against Bournemouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal are nervously awaiting news on whether Declan Rice will be fit to play against Bournemouth this weekend.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49537,130798,23259,130796,121882,130797,111,139,69,23262,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-216607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-arsenal-fc","10":"tag-bournemouth","11":"tag-declan-rice","12":"tag-fantasy-premier-league","13":"tag-football-section","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-premier-league","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}