{"id":508570,"date":"2026-02-15T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508570"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:05:39","slug":"arteta-shares-why-odegaard-missed-the-gunners-fa-cup-victory","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arteta-shares-why-odegaard-missed-the-gunners-fa-cup-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta shares why Odegaard missed the Gunners\u2019 FA Cup victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta has explained why Martin Odegaard was not on the pitch today in Arsenal\u2019s FA Cup triumph against Wigan. The North London team didn\u2019t have any problems eliminating their opponent and advancing to the next phase of the competition, but Martin missed the match.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian was also on the bench in Arsenal\u2019s 1-1 draw against Brentford a few days ago, but replaced Eberechi Eze in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half. During the match vs. the Bees, Odegaard sustained a knock.<\/p>\n<p>And now the Gunners manager has shared that the Norwegian didn\u2019t play today because of the knock he suffered during the Bees\u2019 goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know yet how long Odegaard will be out. Martin sustained a knock when the Bees scored against us, and he wasn\u2019t ready to play today,\u201d explained Arteta.<\/p>\n<p>However, two more Arsenal players are not fit, as Mikel shared that Riccardo Calafiori and Ben White are the other two players in doubt at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Havertz is out with a muscle problem, while Mikel Merino will miss significant time after a foot procedure and is yet to see if he will play again in the current campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\uddde Squad cohesion<br \/>\ud83d\uddde Eze&#39;s performance<br \/>\ud83d\uddde Adapting to late changes<\/p>\n<p>Read every word from Mikel&#39;s post-Wigan presser \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arsenal (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/2023125159528509885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 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>Mikel Arteta has explained why Martin Odegaard was not on the pitch today in Arsenal\u2019s FA Cup triumph against Wigan. The North London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508571,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18106],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[366,1076],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Mikel revealed why the midfielder didn\u2019t play today.","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\/508570"}],"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=508570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508572,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508570\/revisions\/508572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508570"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508570"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}