{"id":1399,"date":"2026-05-14T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:04:32","slug":"arteta-hopes-to-have-his-antidote-to-kvaratskhelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Arteta hopes to have his &#8216;antidote&#8217; to Kvaratskhelia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">The<strong> countdown for the ball to start rolling in the Puskas Arena<\/strong> of Budapest, in the <strong>Champions League final that will face Arsenal and PSG<\/strong>it has already started. At this point in the season, <strong>Both teams will try to arrive with the maximum guarantees<\/strong> to the last game of the season. And so <strong>involves having the maximum possible number of troops available<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Las <strong>injuries have affected Arsenal<\/strong> in this final stretch of the course. Mikel Arteta has had to deal with several obstacles in the physical section in the middle of the fight for the Premier League and the Champions League. <strong>Odegaard, Merino, Calafiori, Saka, etc<\/strong>. There have been many injuries suffered by the team <em>Gunner<\/em> throughout the season, However, in this crucial part of the year, the<strong> Arsenal is left without right backs<\/strong>. To the<strong> Timber&#8217;s injury from last March was added, last weekend, to Ben White&#8217;s physical problems<\/strong>. In this way, Arsenal has been left without its two right-backs to face this crucial stretch of the season&#8230; <strong>although there is still hope<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Timber Progression<\/h2>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>Jurr\u00efen Timber<\/strong>starting right-back in Arteta&#8217;s scheme, <strong>It seems that he is gradually progressing from his ankle injury<\/strong>as confirmed by the Spanish coach in the press conference prior to this weekend&#8217;s match against Burnley: &#8220;<strong>He&#8217;s made some progress in the last few days. We&#8217;re going to try to get him fit and available as soon as possible, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/strong>&#8220;The Basque is confident that the Dutchman can be available for the Champions League final on May 30, although the timeline for his recovery is still unknown.&#8221;<strong>There&#8217;s a chance (that he plays this season), but I can&#8217;t tell you how big that chance is.<\/strong>. &#8220;He will do everything possible to make that possibility as great as possible, and that is the challenge ahead of him,&#8221; Arteta said.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">In the absence of a pure right-back, <strong>Arteta has tried other emergency solutions in recent weeks<\/strong>how to place players like<strong> Rice or Mosquera<\/strong>which aims to be the solution most used by the Spanish coach until Timber returns. &#8220;<strong>The good thing is that we have experienced it all over the field this season, because when we have had problems, it has usually also been in the same position, and we have still managed to find the right level of performance and consistency, so I am sure we will<\/strong>&#8220;said Arteta. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown for the ball to start rolling in the Puskas Arena of Budapest, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}