{"id":326065,"date":"2026-04-29T01:43:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=326065"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:13:51","slug":"mikel-arteta-issues-jurrien-timber-injury-update-ahead-of-arsenal-vs-atletico-madrid-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/mikel-arteta-issues-jurrien-timber-injury-update-ahead-of-arsenal-vs-atletico-madrid-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta issues Jurrien Timber injury update ahead of Arsenal vs Atletico Madrid | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption>Jurrien Timber has missed Arsenal\u2019s last eight matches (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta stays uncertain over a return date for Jurrien Timber attributable to a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>Timber has missed Arsenal\u2019s last eight matches and was not training with the squad on Tuesday ahead of the primary leg of their Champions League semi-final against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Within the Premier League, Arsenal currently sit three points clear of Manchester City with just 4 games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>But Arteta is unsure whether Timber will play an element in Arsenal\u2019s title run-in against City.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he knows a return date for Timber, Arteta said on Tuesday evening: \u2018We don\u2019t know yet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_287451902-b4ee.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28156210\" alt=\"LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 01: Jurrien Timber of Arsenal during the Premier League match between Arsenal and Chelsea at Emirates Stadium on March 01, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Marc Atkins\/Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Jurrien Timber has been sidelined with a groin injury (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018He&#8217;s doing a little stuff on the pitch in the meanwhile. But we want to get the gears up and have the option to do more things before he can compete with us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Arteta also confirmed that Kai Havertz will miss the sport against Atletico, while Eberechi Eze is on the market after each were forced off within the win against Newcastle United last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his side\u2019s semi-final against Atletico, Arteta added: \u2018After that win, a large win for us against Newcastle, you can sense immediately the energy, the arrogance coming into this game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s a large privilege to be here again, two years in a row within the semi-final of the Champions League, representing our club, what a chance we\u2019re going to grab with each hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019re going to see a team that desires to be dominant, that desires to win it, and that desires to start out to make a decision the tie tomorrow.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow Metro Sport for the newest news on <meta charset=\"utf-8\"><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sportmetro\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_Sport\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/metrosportuk\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Gary Lineker says \u00a360m star should \u2018take Arsenal team talks\u2019 as an alternative of Mikel Arteta<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Rio Ferdinand names player who can \u2018drag Arsenal over the road\u2019 in title race<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Sergio Aguero names his favourite to win the Champions League ahead of Arsenal<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurrien Timber has missed Arsenal\u2019s last eight matches (Getty) Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta stays uncertain over a return date for Jurrien Timber attributable to a groin injury. Timber has missed Arsenal\u2019s last eight matches and was not training with the squad on Tuesday ahead of the primary leg of their Champions League semi-final against Atletico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[1127,2605,2604,15249,5479,667,3457,28660,3166,2603,28661,581],"class_list":["post-326065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ahead","tag-arsenal","tag-arteta","tag-atletico","tag-football","tag-injury","tag-issues","tag-jurrien","tag-madrid","tag-mikel","tag-timber","tag-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326065","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=326065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326068,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326065\/revisions\/326068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}