{"id":507815,"date":"2026-02-03T13:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507815"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:59:48","slug":"saka-will-miss-crucial-arsenal-matches-as-he-recovers-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/saka-will-miss-crucial-arsenal-matches-as-he-recovers-from-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Saka will miss crucial Arsenal matches as he recovers from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal star Bukayo Saka has been set a potential return date as he is out with an injury and didn\u2019t play in the Gunners\u2019 4-0 victory against Leeds United over the past weekend. The forward was included in North London\u2019s club starting 11 but sustained his injury during the warm-up, and his place on the pitch was taken by Noni Madueke.<\/p>\n<p>Bukayo will not play today in the Gunners\u2019 \u00bd final 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg with Chelsea, but his team is optimistic that he will be able to return soon.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta revealed this about Saka\u2019s injury ahead of the match against the Blues in the Carabao Cup: \u201cWe must be patient. Saka felt better today, but we must give him more time and see how he feels, and then decide when we can return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I don\u2019t think that his injury is serious. Whether he will be on the pitch against Chelsea or during the weekend, I\u2019m not sure yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Bukayo Saka is NOT available to face Chelsea in the Carabao Cup semi-final. The injury is not serious, however, and the hope is Saka will be fit when Arsenal host rivals Tottenham later this month. \u274c\ud83e\udd15 [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sr_collings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@sr_collings<\/a>] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p937yLsGUK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/p937yLsGUK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DailyAFC (@DailyAFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyAFC\/status\/2018693853155357169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 3, 2026<\/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>Arsenal star Bukayo Saka has been set a potential return date as he is out with an injury and didn\u2019t play in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507816,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,16881],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18843,366],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Bukayo will be out for crucial games of his team despite an optimistic return date.","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\/507815"}],"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=507815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507817,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507815\/revisions\/507817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507815"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507815"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}