Ødegaard Is Disappointed With His Latest Injury – Arteta

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has urged Martin Ødegaard to keep driving the standards from the sidelines. This comes after he confirmed that the club captain will be out for several weeks with a knee injury.

According to him, Ødegaard has been very unlucky with injuries this season, and it is too early to give a definite date for his return.

Arteta added that Martin is disappointed with his fitness this term because he does everything to prevent injuries.

His words, “It will be weeks [out], no definite date for his return but he is evolving well.

Very unlucky what is happening with him and his injuries this season but I think he will be back in a few weeks. It could be but we will have to see how he progresses, how the knee is healing. It is too early to give an answer.

I think he is in a really good place. Obviously he is disappointed how it happened. The good thing is he does everything he possibly can to prevent injuries.

The injuries that he had, they are very, very difficult to prevent so that is something you [take the] weight off yourself. And that’s it. And then, he cannot afford to be in a different mindset.

He is the captain, he needs to drive the standards, he needs to be the example, he needs to bring the energy next to that. That’s it. When you don’t have an option, if you are a Dad, you have to look after your kids, that’s it. You are good, you are tired, you have to be there. That’s his responsibility in the team.”

WOW.

Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.

After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.

In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season. Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.