{"id":493040,"date":"2026-03-24T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:19:09","slug":"eberechi-eze-arsenal-attacking-midfielder-could-miss-four-to-six-weeks-with-calf-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493040\/","title":{"rendered":"Eberechi Eze: Arsenal attacking midfielder could miss four to six weeks with calf injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the impending return of captain Martin Odegaard will help ease the impact of Eze&#8217;s loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Odegaard has a knee injury and has been unavailable for a month, but there is hope he will be fit to play after the international break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The midfielder will miss Norway&#8217;s games against Holland and Switzerland to focus on ensuring he is available as early as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While losing Eze comes as a blow, the fact the injury comes as the international break starts will help minimise the impact created by his absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>&#8216;s next game is the FA Cup quarter-final at Southampton on Saturday, 4 April &#8211; a competition in which Arteta has looked to rotate members of his squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, the impending return of captain Martin Odegaard will help ease the impact of Eze&#8217;s loss. Odegaard has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-493040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493040","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=493040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}