{"id":668,"date":"2026-03-30T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=668"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:24:32","slug":"martin-zubimendi-sidelined-for-spains-game-against-egypt-adds-to-arsenal-injury-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Martin Zubimendi sidelined for Spain&#8217;s game against Egypt, adds to Arsenal injury woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) have <a href=\"https:\/\/rfef.es\/es\/noticias\/zubimendi-baja-en-la-concentracion-de-la-seleccion\">confirmed<\/a> that Arsenal midfielder Martin Zubimendi has suffered a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Zubimendi will miss Tuesday\u2019s international friendly match with Egypt at the RCDE Stadium. He played just 13 minutes of the 3-0 victory over Serbia last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He is now doubtful for Arsenal\u2019s FA Cup quarter-final clash at Southampton on Saturday and the Champions League quarter-final first leg at Sporting CP.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has yet to miss a game due to injury since his summer move from Real Sociedad. He has played 44 times across all competitions, registering nine goal involvements.<\/p>\n<p>Zubimendi has been pivotal to Arsenal\u2019s success this term. Manager Mikel Arteta will be hoping to get him fit for the final stretch of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Arteta are also sweating over the fitness of several other key players ahead of the season run-in.<\/p>\n<p>Noni Madueke suffered a hamstring injury during England&#8217;s 1-1 draw with Uruguay. Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice <a href=\"https:\/\/arsenalnews.co.uk\/2026\/03\/28\/arsenal-trio-forced-back-from-international-duty-with-injuries\/\">withdrew from the Three Lions\u2019 squad<\/a> over fitness concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Piero Hincapie, Eberechi Eze, Martin Odegaard, William Saliba and Gabriel are also on the treatment table.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final, Arsenal are still on course to win three trophies, but cannot afford to have several players injured.<\/p>\n<p>They hold a nine-point lead over Manchester City in the Premier League and should win the title.<\/p>\n<p>However, FA Cup and Champions League successes are far from guaranteed, and their growing injury list complicates their challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) have confirmed that Arsenal midfielder Martin Zubimendi has suffered a knee injury. Zubimendi will miss Tuesday\u2019s international friendly match with Egypt at the RCDE Stadium. He played just 13 minutes of the 3-0 victory over Serbia last Friday. He is now doubtful for Arsenal\u2019s FA Cup quarter-final clash at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","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\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}