Surely Arsenal won’t allow Ødegaard to join Norway for the next international break?

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·25 Oktober 2024

Surely Arsenal won’t allow Ødegaard to join Norway for the next international break?

Surely Arsenal won’t allow Ødegaard to be available for the November internationals, right?

The Norwegian international has been missing for nearly six weeks worth of action so far, because of his unfortunate injury sustained for Norway in early September. In this period of time, he has missed nine games for us, but we’ve faired pretty good in his absence, winning 6 out of those 9, with the dropped points coming from the opening UCL game of the season and the two Premier League games that we were down to ten men.

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We’ve only started to feel his absence the more recently in the last two game,s where we’ve struggled to find a cutting edge without him and Saka in the side. Arteta and the club have revealed recently that he is on track to make a return to the side before the November international break which will be a big boost to our season.

The Norwegian national team’s head coach has further hinted to an early November return for Ødegaard after recently admitting that he might be called up for the next set of international fixtures if he’s ready, the Norwegian told VG: “Everything indicates that things are going according to plan, so it’s about the last steps when you have to train with opponents and in team training. It depends on how he responds to that, but we have a legitimate hope that he is ready.”

This is good news indeed given how long we’ve been without our skipper, however I really do hope that the Gunners will do the sensible thing of making him unavailable for selection in the next break. He’ll probably just be back right before the international break in November so it would be a risk to let him be involved in the set of fixtures that got him injured in the first place. He would be better off staying back with the team and participating in further training to boost his fitness.

The player will have a say though and I’m sure he won’t pass up the opportunity to represent his country under any circumstances, but I hope the club does it’s best to stop his involvement if he’s fit at that time.

KENNETH BENJAMIN.

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