{"id":465021,"date":"2023-10-06T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465021"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:24:23","slug":"arsenals-saka-could-play-on-sunday-vs-man-city","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arsenals-saka-could-play-on-sunday-vs-man-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal\u2019s Saka could play on Sunday vs. Man. City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal star Bukayo Saka is &#8220;in contention&#8221; to be on the pitch in Sunday\u2019s league match vs. Manchester City as he battles to overcome a muscular problem.<\/p>\n<p>The young winger was forced off 34 minutes in the Champions League clash during the week against the Lens as the French side defeated the Premier League team 2-1. After the game, Arteta claimed that the problem was &#8220;a worry&#8221; ahead of playing against the reigning Premier League champions during the weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bukayo Saka has played in each of Arsenal&#8217;s last 87 Premier League games, a club record streak of uninterrupted appearances in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s in contention to make 88 in a row. \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5TFiS5PAfh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5TFiS5PAfh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1710276372474515569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, today, the head coach shared more positive news at his Friday press conference but didn\u2019t share the exact nature of the Saka problem or whether the scan had shown additional problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s in contention,&#8221; the Gunners boss spoke of Bukayo. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see how he progresses from today to Sunday. Saka had to leave the pitch; that is never a positive sign, but let&#8217;s see how he recovers. That&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m not part of the medical staff. That&#8217;s what they shared with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal star Bukayo Saka is &#8220;in contention&#8221; to be on the pitch in Sunday\u2019s league match vs. Manchester City as he battles to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465022,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,16881,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18843,17886,366],"acf":{"announce":"The Gunners manager shared that the attacker is 'in contention' to compete against the Sky Blues.","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\/465021"}],"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=465021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465025,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465021\/revisions\/465025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465021"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465021"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}