{"id":329321,"date":"2026-05-05T01:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=329321"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:09:21","slug":"mikel-arteta-confirms-double-injury-boost-ahead-of-arsenal-vs-atletico-madrid-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/mikel-arteta-confirms-double-injury-boost-ahead-of-arsenal-vs-atletico-madrid-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta confirms double injury boost 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>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mikel Arteta has confirmed that Kai Havertz and Martin Odegaard are each available for Arsenal\u2019s Champions League semi-final second leg against Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Odegaard began the primary leg but was withdrawn early within the second half before missing Saturday\u2019s 3-0 win over Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>Havertz, meanwhile, has missed the Gunners\u2019 last two games after picking up an injury during their 1-0 win over Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>However the pair might be in line to return to the starting lineup on the Emirates on Tuesday as Arsenal bid to achieve their first Champions League final since 2006<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They\u2019re available, within the squad each of them,\u2019 Arteta confirmed in his pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s great. We want options, we want the capability to play different games tomorrow, whether it\u2019s from the beginning or after.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s really, really excellent news for us to have them each back.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2272465322.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=594\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28233731\" alt=\"Arsenal v Newcastle United - Premier League\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Kai Havertz is poised to return to Arsenal\u2019s matchday squad (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arsenal, though, will still be without Jurrien Timber as his frustrating end to the season continues.<\/p>\n<p>Havertz\u2019s return to fitness could leave Arteta with a variety conundrum at the highest of the pitch given Viktor Gyokeres\u2019 impressive performances within the last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Swede scored Arsenal\u2019s goal in the primary leg from the spot and notched a brace on the weekend against Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>Bukayo Saka also impressed against Fulham and appears poisedto start again on Tuesday, having been brought off at half-time on Saturday to administer his comeback from an injury.<\/p>\n<p>On Saka\u2019s return to fitness, Arteta added: \u2018Great, that\u2019s what we want after we arrive on this stage of the competition \u2013 the players not only to be available, but to be in top condition to perform and make the difference, and Bukayo will definitely give us that.\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: Atletico Madrid drop Julian Alvarez injury hint ahead of Arsenal showdown<\/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: Jamie Carragher makes Arsenal vs Atletico Madrid prediction for Champions League semi-final<\/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: Gary Neville names \u2018horrible\u2019 game that might cost Arsenal the Premier League title<\/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>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta (Picture: Getty) Mikel Arteta has confirmed that Kai Havertz and Martin Odegaard are each available for Arsenal\u2019s Champions League semi-final second leg against Atletico Madrid. Odegaard began the primary leg but was withdrawn early within the second half before missing Saturday\u2019s 3-0 win over Fulham. Havertz, meanwhile, has missed the Gunners\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[1127,2605,2604,15249,474,1524,1662,5479,667,3166,2603],"class_list":["post-329321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ahead","tag-arsenal","tag-arteta","tag-atletico","tag-boost","tag-confirms","tag-double","tag-football","tag-injury","tag-madrid","tag-mikel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329321","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=329321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329324,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329321\/revisions\/329324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}