{"id":795226,"date":"2026-07-31T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795226\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:40:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-the-premier-league-clubs-fighting-a-world-cup-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795226\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: The Premier League clubs fighting a World Cup hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a> and Arsenal<\/a>, meanwhile, had the greatest concentration of players making deep runs into the competition.<\/p>\n

City’s World Cup contingent featured for several of the tournament’s leading nations.<\/p>\n

Rodri helped Spain win their second men’s World Cup after playing 726 minutes, while Marc Guehi and Elliot Anderson helped England reach the final weekend. <\/p>\n

Nico O’Reilly featured in England’s semi-final run, while Erling Haaland and Jeremy Doku both reached the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a>‘s numbers were similarly striking.<\/p>\n

Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka remained involved until England’s 6-4 victory over France in the third-place play-off, while Martin Zubimendi and Mikel Merino reached the final with Spain. <\/p>\n

William Saliba helped France reach the third-place play-off, although he was subsequently injured and did not feature again. Noni Madueke was part of England’s run to the final weekend but did not play beyond the quarter-finals, while Martin Odegaard captained Norway to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

The workload concerns are already being felt. City’s Rodri recently had back surgery and is expected to miss a “short period” at the start of the season, while Saliba avoided surgery, but Arsenal<\/a> have confirmed he will be sidelined for an “extended period” because of a back issue.<\/p>\n

Even though neither setback can be attributed solely to the World Cup, both underline the physical demands being placed on players in an increasingly crowded football calendar.<\/p>\n

Those clubs are likely to begin the campaign without having enjoyed a full pre-season with several key players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City and Arsenal, meanwhile, had the greatest concentration of players making deep runs into the competition. City’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-795226","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\/795226","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=795226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}