{"id":673294,"date":"2026-05-30T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T02:09:11","slug":"arsenal-uefa-champions-league-final-press-conference-mikel-arteta-martin-odegaard-bukayo-saka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673294\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Uefa Champions League final press conference: Mikel Arteta, Martin Odegaard &#038; Bukayo Saka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arteta&#8217;s right-back dilemmapublished at 18:28 BST 29 May<\/p>\n<p>18:28 BST 29 May<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Paris St-Germain v Arsenal (Sat, 17:00 BST)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8ab2f1bc-6fbe-4e5c-b6f3-65179ba49879.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Alex Howell<br \/>BBC Sport Arsenal reporter in Budapest<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the big things that Mikel Arteta has to make a decision about before the game is what to do at right-back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In this team picture at the Champions Festival in Budapest, Ben White is in the starting XI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, White is ruled out with a knee ligament injury, and Cristhian Mosquera has been playing there in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That is because first-choice full-back Jurrien Timber has had a long-term injury and has not played for Arsenal since the middle of March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arteta also played Martin Zubimendi at right-back in the final league game at Crystal Palace as he attempts to find a solution before the final with PSG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Timber is here with the squad, but it is not clear if he will be fit enough to start, even if he is available for Arteta to pick after being out for so long.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"N\/A\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/838d8729-9df8-41b0-b634-15b87c2c7c3d.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arteta&#8217;s right-back dilemmapublished at 18:28 BST 29 May 18:28 BST 29 May Paris St-Germain v Arsenal (Sat, 17:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-673294","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\/673294","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=673294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}