{"id":326909,"date":"2026-04-30T16:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=326909"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:37:18","slug":"injury-fears-for-arsenal-star-after-early-change-against-atletico-something-not-right-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/injury-fears-for-arsenal-star-after-early-change-against-atletico-something-not-right-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury fears for Arsenal star after early change against Atletico: ‘Something not right’ | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arteta could have one other injury issue to contend with (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Martin Odegaard was hauled off before the hour mark during Arsenal\u2019s Champions League semi-final showdown with Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n

The Gunners captain has endured a difficult season where he has struggled for form and fitness, limited to only 10 starting appearances because the turn of the yr.<\/p>\n

The Norway international returned from his latest issue earlier this month, playing the total 90 minutes against Manchester City and Newcastle United before starting again against Atletico on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

But in a decent contest within the Spanish capital, Arteta opted to interchange his skipper on 57 minutes with Eberechi Eze onto replace him.<\/p>\n

Arteta can have had one eye on Saturday\u2019s Premier League clash with Fulham, one other must-win game of their bid to win their first title for 22 years, before Atletico come to the capital for the second leg next Tuesday.<\/p>\n

But some observers were left convinced Odegaard continues to be scuffling with injury.<\/p>\n

The previous Real Madrid midfielder appeared to receive treatment from the club\u2019s medical staff at the top of the first-half with TV2<\/a>, Norway\u2019s broadcaster for the match, also speculating there could also be a difficulty.<\/p>\n

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Odegaard was replaced before the hour mark (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TV2\u2019s football expert Erik Thorstvedt speculated a recent knee continues to be causing Odegaard problems.<\/p>\n

\u2018It is totally unnatural that he needs to be replaced so early,\u2019 he said after Odegaard was replaced.<\/p>\n

\u2018He has something that shouldn’t be quite right. There’s something in his left knee that shouldn’t be right. It’s an awesome shame.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Odegaard has had various injury issues this season (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arteta didn’t disclose any details behind Odegaard\u2019s withdrawal after the sport.<\/p>\n

The midfielder missed three months of last season with an ankle injury, scuffling with various issues this season.<\/p>\n

The skipper was briefly sidelined with a shoulder injury in September with a knee problem sidelining him for eight games from October to November.<\/p>\n

Knee issues resurfaced this yr, missing a run of games in February and March.<\/p>\n

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Arteta could have one other injury issue to contend with (Picture: Getty) Martin Odegaard was hauled off before the hour mark during Arsenal\u2019s Champions League semi-final showdown with Atletico Madrid. The Gunners captain has endured a difficult season where he has struggled for form and fitness, limited to only 10 starting appearances because the turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[2605,15249,891,2591,1854,5479,667,795],"class_list":["post-326909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-atletico","tag-change","tag-early","tag-fears","tag-football","tag-injury","tag-star"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326909","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=326909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326912,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326909\/revisions\/326912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}