'I feel ready': Arsenal star offers injury boost in new update

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·08 de setembro de 2025

'I feel ready': Arsenal star offers injury boost in new update

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Martin Odegaard insists he is over the shoulder injury he picked up last month and has cooled any suggestion of a club vs country row between Arsenal and Norway.

Odegaard injured his right shoulder during Arsenal’s 5-0 home win over Leeds in the Premier League on August 23.

The midfielder landed heavily during the first half of the game and, after trying to initially carry on, was forced to come off before half-time.

Odegaard underwent a scan the following day and was deemed fit enough to make the bench for Arsenal’s 1-0 defeat by Liverpool at Anfield a week later.

The 26-year-old came on for the final 20 minutes of that match and has since joined up with Norway on international duty.

He started their friendly against Finland on Thursday before being taken off as one of four changes made at half-time.

Odegaard has explained how he is now over the shoulder problem and that there was never any conflict about him coming on international duty, with Norway due to host Moldova in a World Cup qualifier in Oslo on Tuesday night.

“It hurt a lot, but now I got it under control and I feel ready,” Odegaard said. “It was never an issue [between Norway and Arsenal].

“I talk a lot with (Norway manager) Stale Solbakken. The club obviously wanted me for Liverpool, and my only job was to get ready.”