Arsenal were without skipper Martin Odegaard for Saturday’s Premier League game against Wolves. The Norway international had scored on each of his last two visits to Molineux, but the Gunners were forced to cope without their main playmaker against the relegation strugglers.
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Odegaard played the full 90 minutes against Dinamo Zagreb in midweek and scored his side’s third goal, his first from open play this season. Follow the latest updates and score of Wolves vs Arsenal on Metro’s live blog. The 26-year-old missed the trip to the Black Country, however, due to sickness as Mikel Arteta was forced into yet another change.
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Arsenal were also minus the services of summer signing Mikel Merino but there were welcome returns for William Saliba and Ethan Nwaneri. ‘Martin was ill this morning and we had to send him back – he was nowhere near fit to play,’ Arteta confirmed shortly before kick-off.
‘Mikel [Merino] as well, because he got a knock and couldn’t make it yesterday for training.’. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. The France international defender had missed two games with the hamstring injury he picked up during the closing stages of the north London derby earlier this month.
Saliba partnered Gabriel at the heart of Arsenal’s defence with the Brazilian wearing the armband in Odegaard’s absence. Nwaneri’s return represented an equally welcome boost given the 17-year-old had begun to make a decent fist of deputising for Bukayo Saka before he sustained a muscle injury against Brighton last month.
