{"id":226919,"date":"2025-10-26T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226919\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:42:08","slug":"mikel-arteta-provides-injury-update-on-saliba-and-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226919\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta provides injury update on Saliba and Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arsenal-v-crystal-palace-premier-league-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has shared that the club are still waiting for a full medical assessment on William Saliba and Declan Rice after they picked up injuries during the 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners secured a hard-fought win at the Emirates Stadium in a tense encounter. <\/p>\n<p>The London derby was decided by a superb strike from Eberechi Eze, which helped Arsenal maintain their lead at the top of the Premier League table with 22 points from nine matches.<\/p>\n<p>Saliba and Rice forced off in Palace win<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arsenal-v-crystal-palace-premier-league-2-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353678 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/683;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saliba was taken off at half-time and replaced by summer signing <a href=\"https:\/\/arsenalnews.co.uk\/2025\/07\/24\/arsenal-sign-cristhian-mosquera-from-valencia-in-13m-deal\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cristhian Mosquera<\/a>, while Rice was substituted in the 82nd minute for Mikel Merino after appearing to struggle with a knock.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/live-blog\/11670\/13025486\/arsenal-transfer-news-rumours-and-gossip-live-updates-and-latest-on-deals-signings-loans-and-contracts\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports<\/a> after the game, Arteta admitted that the club are still uncertain about the severity of both injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first one was Willy [Saliba] that obviously had to be out after the first half, Declan as well was struggling from the first half with a knock that he took. Ricky as well, so let\u2019s see how that will go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The manager went on to add that it is too early to determine the exact nature of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not want to tell you because I do not really know. On Willy there are two things related to his substitution and with Declan I do not really know because it was a knock, but I do not know if it was the calf or the Achilles or what exactly it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by saying the club would have more clarity after further tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will know more tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Focus shifts to EFL Cup<\/p>\n<p>Following their narrow win, Arsenal will turn their attention to the EFL Cup fourth round, where they face Brighton and Hove Albion at the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners sit top of the league and will be keen to keep their momentum going despite the injury worries surrounding two of their key players.<\/p>\n<p>Arteta will be hoping for positive news on both Saliba and Rice as the club enters a busy stretch of fixtures across multiple competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ArsenalNewsLogoedit250x50.png\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/50;\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has shared that the club are still waiting for a full medical assessment on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-226919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}