{"id":23038,"date":"2025-09-08T08:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/william-saliba-is-expected-to-miss-after-the-latest-injury-setback-to-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:54:32","slug":"william-saliba-is-expected-to-miss-after-the-latest-injury-setback-to-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/william-saliba-is-expected-to-miss-after-the-latest-injury-setback-to-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"William Saliba is expected to miss after the latest injury setback to Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" 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momentum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Saliba started the game markedly, maintaining his spinning ankle during his pre-match warm-up at Anfield prior to his clash with Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from L&#8217;\u00e9quipe, the injury could put the French centre-back aside for three to four weeks and keep him out until after an international break in October.<\/p>\n<p>This not only dominates him from France&#8217;s upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Azerbaijan and Iceland in early October, but also a punishment schedule for seven important matches for Arsenal in the Premier League, Champions League and the Carabao Cup as a whole.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"William_Saliba_is_set_to_miss_out_on_Arsenals_important_game\"><\/span>William Saliba is set to miss out on Arsenal&#8217;s important game<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>These supplies include:<\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Forest (home)<br \/>Champions League Athletic Bilbao (Away)<br \/>Manchester City in Emirates<br \/>Carabao Cup Third Round Tie vs Portvale<br \/>Newcastle United Away<br \/>European Olympiacos (home)<br \/>West Ham United at home<\/p>\n<p>Saliba is a defensive lynchpin for both Arsenal and France, and his absence is already in the midst of a troublesome injury crisis, including Martin \u00d8degaard, Bukayosaka, Kai Hubbert, Christian Norgaard, Ben White and long-term absent Gabriel Jesus.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_gunner_has_a_deeper_defensive_position\"><\/span>The gunner has a deeper defensive position<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/liverpool-v-arsenal-premier-league-2-414x276.jpg.webp 414w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/liverpool-v-arsenal-premier-league-2-630x420.jpg.webp 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The Summer Signer, who replaced Saliba with Liverpool, will be replaced by Liverpool, delivering a configured performance, and is expected to be featured in large numbers in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>Piero Hincapi\u00e9, a deadline arrival, and the versatile Riccardo Calafiori, who can enter the central defense, will also enhance the options.<\/p>\n<p>This early season of batting is Arsenal&#8217;s most important potential batting since last season. However, the rotation of the depth and smart teams helps Arteta deal with the setback.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: Gabriel Martinelli faces an uncertain future at Arsenal, Euro giants consider January&#8217;s moves<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal was hit hard like the new season gained momentum. William Saliba started the game markedly, maintaining his spinning ankle during his pre-match warm-up at Anfield prior to his clash with Liverpool. According to a report from L&#8217;\u00e9quipe, the injury could put the French centre-back aside for three to four weeks and keep him out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-23038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}