{"id":461575,"date":"2023-10-02T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T23:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=461575"},"modified":"2023-10-02T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T23:43:08","slug":"saliba-ucl-travel-problems-wont-affect-our-team","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/saliba-ucl-travel-problems-wont-affect-our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Saliba: UCL travel problems won\u2019t affect our team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Saliba shared that Arsenal\u2019s Champions League preparations have not been extremely corrupted by the club\u2019s travel troubles in reaching Lens.<\/p>\n<p>The North London team were due to leave the English capital at 4.15 p.m. today but were almost 5 hours late leaving after bad weather in the U.K. delayed their flight to France.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners are set to play their 1<sup>st<\/sup> visit to the Champions League since 2017, but Saliba admits his teammates would get over fast with the problem with the flight.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal were forced to cancel their pre-game news conference. When asked during a phone call with journalists whether William thinks his teammates could play at the same level even without the problems, the French defender gave a positive answer.<\/p>\n<p>Saliba added that they need to arrive 1<sup>st<\/sup> in Lens today, but tomorrow is a new day, and everything will be at the usual highest level, and he expects the Gunners to give their best vs. Lens.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f| Mikel Arteta on William Saliba: \u201cWhen you look how he\u2019s developing, his role in the team, the level and consistency he\u2019s shown in the last year or so, it\u2019s remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you will find a lot of centre backs doing what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCredit to the players around\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dFHccnEtoI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dFHccnEtoI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsenal Buzz (@ArsenalBuzzCom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArsenalBuzzCom\/status\/1708939892686758279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Saliba shared that Arsenal\u2019s Champions League preparations have not been extremely corrupted by the club\u2019s travel troubles in reaching Lens. The North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":461576,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18072,21612],"news_category":[142,14235],"gn_keywords":[18073,21613,366],"acf":{"announce":"William claimed that the travel troubles won\u2019t affect Arsenal.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461590,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461575\/revisions\/461590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461575"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=461575"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=461575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}