{"id":319106,"date":"2026-04-15T17:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=319106"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:58:27","slug":"sporting-suffer-injury-blow-with-star-mikel-arteta-wanted-at-arsenal-ruled-out-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/sporting-suffer-injury-blow-with-star-mikel-arteta-wanted-at-arsenal-ruled-out-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting suffer injury blow with star Mikel Arteta wanted at Arsenal ruled out | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arsenal can have one less threat to fret about tonight (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sporting CP can be without one among their first-team stars after they tackle Arsenal within the Champions League tonight.<\/p>\n

The Gunners have a slender 1-0 lead after their quarter-final first leg victory in Lisbon last week with Kai Havertz\u2019s late goal leaving them in a commanding position ahead of the return leg within the capital.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta\u2019s side are reeling from a dismal defeat to Bournemouth on the weekend with plenty of injury concerns to contend with.<\/p>\n

Sporting may even be without the services of 1 key man with Ivan Fresneda not making the trip to London.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old was forced off at half-time on Saturday as a precautionary measure. <\/p>\n

While he was given the possibility to prove his fitness this week, Sporing boss Rui Borges has opted to go away him back in Lisbon to avoid the chance of further aggravating the muscle issue. <\/p>\n

\u2018Iv\u00e1n has been a very important player, he\u2019s had an awesome season,\u2019 Borges said. <\/p>\n

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Arsenal once agreed a fee to sign Fresneda (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Because of physical management, he\u2019s not at 100%. We opted to go away him in Lisbon; he wasn\u2019t in full condition to contribute, and tomorrow\u2019s game demands everyone at 100%.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fresneda has made 39 appearances for Sporting this season and has began all but one among their Champions matches at right-back.<\/p>\n

The Spain Under-21 international was a transfer goal for the Gunners three years ago. Arsenal explored a move for the then-18-year-old within the January transfer window that 12 months during his breakout season with Real Valladolid in Spain.<\/p>\n

Arsenal even agreed a \u00a313m fee with the La Liga side, seeing off interest from Borussia Dortmund who were also within the race for his signature.<\/p>\n

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Borges can be without his regular right-back this evening (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fresneda eventually turned down Arsenal\u2019s offer with first-team opportunities key to his decision. He Later that 12 months, he signed for Sporting despite interest from Chelsea that summer.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere for Sporting, Belgian defender Zeno Debast and Joao Simoes, who began the first-leg in midfield,\u00a0have travelled with the squad but are doubts \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Arrow<\/title>\n<\/use><\/svg>MORE: Germany international reveals he’s \u2018aware\u2019 of transfer interest from Arsenal<\/span><\/p>\n

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Arsenal can have one less threat to fret about tonight (Picture: Getty) Sporting CP can be without one among their first-team stars after they tackle Arsenal within the Champions League tonight. The Gunners have a slender 1-0 lead after their quarter-final first leg victory in Lisbon last week with Kai Havertz\u2019s late goal leaving them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[2605,2604,5251,5479,667,2603,5254,839,795,14884,831],"class_list":["post-319106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-arteta","tag-blow","tag-football","tag-injury","tag-mikel","tag-ruled","tag-sporting","tag-star","tag-suffer","tag-wanted"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319109,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319106\/revisions\/319109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}