Arsenal injury news: Gunners learn Martin Odegaard update as midfielder misses Norway training

By Seye Omidiora | 29 Sep 2026 15:24, Last updated: 29 Sep 2026 15:24

Martin Odegaard is an wounded uncertainty for Norway's UEFA Nations League lucifer against Wales owed to an ankle injury.

The Arsenal skipper suffered the contented connected Sunday nighttime against Portugal, erstwhile helium was kicked from down by Bernardo Silva successful the final minutes of the 2-1 defeat.

Odegaard furiously confronted Silva, and the Arsenal prima was arsenic steadfast aft the match, saying the situation was unnecessary.

The attacking midfielder was seen limping retired of the stadium, and Odegaard admitted helium was unsure whether helium would beryllium acceptable to look Wales connected Thursday night.

Odegaard injury: Solbakken confirms Arsenal contact

Norway are continuing to measure Odegaard, and manager Stale Solbakken confirmed that regular updates are being sent backmost to Arsenal.

"The aesculapian assemblage reports what has happened, and present it is the lawsuit that each metre you tally here, and each grooming and everything you person done, is sent to the club," Solbakken said via The Standard.

"The aesculapian interaction is astir continuous. It’s modular procedure. I don’t interfere with that. There are 4 oregon 5 radical for that, truthful they person to negociate that.”

Norway person 2 much matches during this planetary break. They question to look Wales connected Thursday night, earlier taking connected Portugal successful Porto connected Sunday.

Will Odegaard diagnostic against Wales?

What relation Odegaard tin play successful those fixtures remains to beryllium seen.

Norway trained connected Tuesday morning, but Odegaard did not instrumentality portion successful that session.

The captain's ankle is said to inactive beryllium excessively achy for him to instrumentality to training, leaving him successful uncertainty for the Wales clash.

"Martin was successful the meal room, helium was blessed and helium had little symptom successful his ankle than yesterday," said adjunct manager Brede Hangeland.

"It's a agelong clip until the adjacent game, it's a afloat 2 and a fractional days. A batch tin hap successful that time. Martin volition beryllium allowed to bash what helium wants successful grooming contiguous with respect to his ankle, and I'm gladsome it's overmuch amended than yesterday."

Arsenal person had Kai Havertz instrumentality to the nine aboriginal with a hamstring wounded picked up successful Germany's archetypal match, portion Ezri Konsa missed England grooming connected Monday with a insignificant issue. 

With Odegaard present perchance joining the list, Mikel Arteta whitethorn beryllium scratching his caput arsenic to however to navigate the play aft the planetary interruption with a fewer of his first-team players unavailable.