{"id":177077,"date":"2025-09-23T20:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/177077\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:07:06","slug":"arsenals-madueke-sidelined-for-up-to-two-months-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/177077\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal&#8217;s Madueke sidelined for up to two months &#8211; source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 23, 2025, 01:29 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"e8393d3a-a2e5-b262-f720-eccb7252e525\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/293236\/noni-madueke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noni Madueke<\/a> is expected to be sidelined for up to two months with a knee injury, a source has told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Madueke went off at half time in Arsenal&#8217;s 1-1 draw against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> on Sunday, with the source confirming to ESPN he we underwent a scan on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The injury will come as a further blow to Mikel Arteta&#8217;s already-depleted forward line that is missing <a data-player-guid=\"b0aef523-0156-389c-809c-1048d4660717\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/203669\/martin-\u00f8degaard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin \u00d8degaard<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"d0c27eed-c6bd-932e-b348-d8c2e3449d5f\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/231182\/kai-havertz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Havertz<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"148fea58-373d-2185-8962-b431f7bf7dbc\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/217289\/gabriel-jesus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Jesus<\/a> through injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old&#8217;s replacement against Man City was <a data-player-guid=\"8bc110d8-2e41-2af9-c56e-0763870ac2f5\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/280555\/bukayo-saka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bukayo Saka<\/a>, who was making his own return from a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/46356612\/arsenal-mikel-arteta-critics-tactics-man-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arteta hits back at critics over &#8216;handbrake tactics&#8217;<\/a><br \/>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46345123\/man-city-silva-slams-arsenal-advantage-common-sense-rant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Man City&#8217;s Silva slams Arsenal advantage in &#8216;common sense&#8217; rant<\/a> <br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46343962\/arsenal-mikel-arteta-backs-viktor-gyokeres-jamie-carragher-asks-elite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arsenal&#8217;s Arteta backs Gy\u00f6keres as Carragher asks: Is he elite?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discussing Madueke&#8217;s injury at a news conference later on Tuesday, Arteta said: &#8220;He&#8217;s going to be out for a few weeks. We&#8217;re probably going to have to do a scan again next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He felt something at the beginning of the match [against City]. He tried to carry on and at half-time he was too sore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t look too bad. He was gutted, obviously. It is very disappointing to see, he was in such a good state. He looked a real threat so it&#8217;s a big miss for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Noni Madueke went off at half time against Manchester City,\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p>Madueke has impressed for Arsenal since his \u00a348 million ($64.6m) move from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c43a00b9-2826-72b3-77a0-62730abc936e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> in the summer. He has started four of Arsenal&#8217;s five <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> games this season, proving equally adept on the left and right wing.<\/p>\n<p>His form has translated onto the international stage, where he started both of <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"217dee4e-6974-a197-49a2-afda6e1788c9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=448\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a>&#8216;s World Cup qualifiers in September and scored his first goal for his country in the win over <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9cc5f6b4-580b-53d6-f27a-2f7e8ac3504e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=6757\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serbia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the forward does end up spending two months on the sidelines, he will miss Arsenal&#8217;s next two Champions League games against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and Slavia Praha.<\/p>\n<p>He could miss up to six Premier League matches and might be at risk of missing the first north London derby of the season against Tottenham in November.<\/p>\n<p>Information from PA was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 23, 2025, 01:29 PM ET Arsenal forward Noni Madueke is expected to be sidelined for up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-177077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177077","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=177077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}