{"id":5872,"date":"2026-04-19T14:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:21:40","slug":"team-news-odegaard-returns-to-face-man-city-team-news-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=5872","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Odegaard returns to face Man City | Team news | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Martin Odegaard is back in the starting line-up to face Manchester City in Sunday\u2019s top of the table Premier League clash.<\/p>\n<p>The captain returns after missing our last two games through injury, while Kai Havertz is also brought in to start.<\/p>\n<p>The two players to drop out from our goalless draw with Sporting on Wednesday are Viktor Gyokeres and Gabriel Martinelli, who are both among the substitutes.<\/p>\n<p>It means Eberechi Eze keeps his place, while Noni Madueke has shaken off a knock as well to start on the right wing. <\/p>\n<p>David Raya is in goal behind an unchanged back four of Cristhian Mosquera, William Saliba, Gabriel and Piero Hincapie. <\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"186c466c-91c1-4572-9b1c-69b083ac7c79\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"126548\" about=\"\/news\/preview-man-city-v-arsenal-0\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title\" title=\"Preview: Man City v Arsenal\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Preview: Man City v Arsenal <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>LINE-UPS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Arsenal:<\/strong> Raya, Mosquera, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie, Zubimendi, Rice, Eze, Odegaard, Madueke, Havertz. <br \/><strong>Substitutes:<\/strong> Arrizabalaga, White, Jesus, Martinelli, Gyokeres, Norgaard, Trossard, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Odegaard is back in the starting line-up to face Manchester City in Sunday\u2019s top of the table Premier League clash. The captain returns after missing our last two games through injury, while Kai Havertz is also brought in to start. The two players to drop out from our goalless draw with Sporting on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872","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=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}