Arsenal travel to Inter Milan in the Champions League on Wednesday without key midfielder Declan Rice. Rice will not travel with the Gunners for the trip to the Giuseppe Meazza for the Champions League quarter-finals. With the England international missing open training ahead of the trip and local paper Football London reporting he has not travelled to Italy.
It is not yet known the extent of Rice’s injury. With the midfielder playing the full 90 minutes of Arsenal’s Premier League defeat to Newcastle on Saturday.UFABET
However, Spanish manager Mikel Arteta also had some good news with the return of captain and midfielder Martin Ødegaard. With the Norwegian seen training fully with the first-team on Tuesday and Ødegaard having travelled to Italy.
Odegaard has not played since August with an ankle injury and has not been named in the Norway squad for the upcoming break.
Arteta has previously stated that he hopes his captain will be back in action. Before the next international break and it looks like that is true. With Arsenal set to host Chelsea in a London derby on Sunday.
We wanted to know how you’re feeling going into this weekend’s north London derby. As Mikel Arteta prepares to possibly face Tottenham without his first-choice midfield partnership of Declan Rice (suspended) and Martin Odegaard (injured).