{"id":1207,"date":"2026-04-01T05:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:07:01","slug":"updates-on-martin-zubimendi-piero-hincapie-9-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"Updates on Martin Zubimendi, Piero Hincapie &#038; 9 Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goonernews.com\/blog\/arsenal-injury-news-martin-zubimendi-piero-hincapie\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"\/><\/nav>\n<p><strong>Arsenal midfielder Martin Zubimendi has picked up a knee injury on international duty with Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old replaced Rodri for the final 15 minutes of the 3-0 friendly win over Serbia on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was subsequently announced that Zubimendi had withdrawn from the squad ahead of the game against Egypt due to \u201cdiscomfort\u201d in his knee.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard will undergo medical examinations before deciding whether he will be fit to face Southampton in the FA Cup quarter-final this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expected Return Date \u2013 Unknown<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Piero Hincapie<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1075068808\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>The Ecuadorian played the first 72 minutes of Ecuador\u2019s friendly against Morocco on Friday before he was substituted.<\/p>\n<p>It has now been confirmed that Hincapie will return to London before his country play the Netherlands tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The defender is set to undergo an assessment by Arsenal\u2019s medical staff, but the nature of the injury is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Hincapie will only have a few days to recover before the Southampton game at St Mary\u2019s this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expected Return Date \u2013 Unknown<\/strong><\/p>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goonernews.com\/blog\/arsenal-injury-news-martin-zubimendi-piero-hincapie\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"\/><\/nav>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal midfielder Martin Zubimendi has picked up a knee injury on international duty with Spain. The 27-year-old replaced Rodri for the final 15 minutes of the 3-0 friendly win over Serbia on Friday night. However, it was subsequently announced that Zubimendi had withdrawn from the squad ahead of the game against Egypt due to \u201cdiscomfort\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}