{"id":173492,"date":"2025-09-22T07:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173492\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:37:06","slug":"martin-odegaard-offers-update-on-unfortunate-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173492\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Odegaard offers update on \u2018unfortunate\u2019 injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Odegaard <\/a>missed the match against Man City <\/a>as he is on the mend after an \u201cunfortunate\u201d series of injuries. He shared the progress on the journey to recovery in the club\u2019s matchday programme.<\/p>\n

\t\u2018It\u2019s a strange one\u2019<\/p>\n

Odegaard fell awkwardly on his shoulder in a 5-0 win over Leeds United<\/a> and looked back at the incident. It is a big blow, but he is doing his best to be fit for the first team as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy shoulder was very sore, but I\u2019ve just been taking it day by day this week, working hard. It\u2019s the same shoulder I hurt in the Leeds United<\/a> game, pretty much the same injury, so just really bad luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

After another collision, a recurrence of the issue against Nottingham Forest<\/a> forced him to leave the pitch at the Emirates Stadium<\/a> in under 20 minutes for the second time in a mere matter of weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first injury healed well, I was over it, but then the same thing happened again. It had never happened to me in 11 years, but it happens twice in two weeks. It\u2019s a strange one, very unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the second phase of a set-piece, Odegaard rushed after the ball, and Jurrien Timber<\/a> threw himself across the floor in a sliding tackle to take care of Morgan Gibbs-White<\/a>. It was, as he admitted, an innocuous moment, so he holds no hard feelings against anyone over the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge itself was fine. I think three of us went for the same ball, and I felt something connect with my foot which kind of flipped me forward, and I couldn\u2019t do anything about how I landed.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had excelled for Norway <\/a>on international duty between the two tumbles, assisting Erling Haaland<\/a> twice and scoring once in an 11-1 thrashing of Moldova<\/a>. It is an annoying setback.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really tough to come off because I was excited to be playing at home again, feeling good after the internationals and really wanting to be out there after coming off in the Leeds United<\/a> game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Odegaard missed the match against Man City as he is on the mend after an \u201cunfortunate\u201d series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[463,403,99],"class_list":["post-173492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}