{"id":529982,"date":"2026-03-18T02:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529982\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:58:11","slug":"declan-rice-how-england-midfielder-epitomises-relentless-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529982\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Rice: How England midfielder epitomises relentless Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rice and Zubimendi are one of the key partnerships in the Arsenal<\/a> team. <\/p>\n

The pair run the midfield and their importance has risen with captain Martin Odegaard’s injury issues this season. <\/p>\n

Both midfielders were given a rare rest in the win over Mansfield Town in the FA Cup fifth round but with crunch games coming thick and fast, their availability is going to be key. <\/p>\n

They provide a solid base in front of the Arsenal<\/a> back four and Rice’s running power and ability to be effective at both ends of the pitch were on show again during the win over Leverkusen. <\/p>\n

“He was immense,” Arteta said. “Him and the whole team. I just mentioned that, the soul of the team.<\/p>\n

“The manner that they go for every ball, the passion that they show in every action is remarkable. And doing it every three days at that level is so difficult.”<\/p>\n

That sentiment was matched by former Arsenal<\/a> defender Matt Upson speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live. <\/p>\n

“I don’t think Declan Rice gets much of a break, he features in nearly every game and keeps churning out the performance. It’s pretty remarkable stuff, physically, he’s an absolute machine,” said Upson. <\/p>\n

Arteta’s side are nine points clear at the top of the Premier League table, into the quarter-finals of the Champions League and through to the same stage of the FA Cup. <\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> have not won a trophy for six years and have a chance to end that drought against Manchester City<\/a> on Sunday in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley. <\/p>\n

“We need to be up for it. We have the momentum at the minute,” added Rice.<\/p>\n

“Every time we play, we have the momentum and feel like we can win. When we go to Wembley, everyone will be behind us and we’ll be ready.<\/p>\n

“There’s no time to think about what’s going on, we just keep playing matches. The more you keep winning, the more the energy stays high and you enjoy it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rice and Zubimendi are one of the key partnerships in the Arsenal team. The pair run the midfield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-529982","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\/529982","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=529982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}