{"id":598504,"date":"2021-08-07T12:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T16:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=598504"},"modified":"2021-08-07T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T16:58:44","slug":"arsenal-injury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/07\/arsenal-injury-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Injury News: Updates on Thomas Partey, Eddie Nketiah and Gabriel Magalhaes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown to the new Premier League season continues to tick down, with less than a week to go until the first whistle.\u00a0Arsenal feature in the league opener on Friday, August 13, when they travel to newcomers <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/05\/brentford-yoane-wissa-lorient\/\" target=\"_self\">Brentford<\/a>, but have issued some injury news and have announced that they will be without trio <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/02\/mikel-arteta-update-thomas-partey-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">Thomas Partey<\/a>, Eddie Nketiah and Gabriel Magalhaes.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners have issued the update ahead of their final preparation game against north London rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/07\/tottenham-hotspur-short-term-future\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> in The Mind Series \u2013 a friendly held to promote better mental health.<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal Injury News: Partey, Eddie Nketiah and Gabriel Updates<\/h2>\n<h3>Ankle Injuries Rule Out Thomas Partey and Eddie Nketiah<\/h3>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s update on Partey\u2019s injury could have been significantly worse, as the Ghanaian midfielder limped off after a strong challenge against Chelsea last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Partey sustained an injury to the ligaments in his right ankle and will likely return to training in around three weeks. The timeline for the midfielder to return places him for a potential return at last season\u2019s champions <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/07\/phil-foden-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> on August 28.<\/p>\n<p>It is a similar story for young striker Eddie Nketiah, whose right ankle also caused him some difficulty against Chelsea. The Gunners\u2019 diagnosis ruled Nketiah to have bruised his ankle, which would rule him out for up to a month.<\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Receive Gabriel Boost Following Knee Injury<\/h3>\n<p>The Gunners have received some better news regarding defender Gabriel, who will be returning to training \u201cin the forthcoming weeks\u201d after sustaining a knee injury last month.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old had been called up to the Brazil squad for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, but complained of pain in his right knee during a training session. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/arsenal-fc\/news\/arsenal-injury-boost-arteta-chelsea-21243913\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">football.london<\/a>, scans revealed swelling to his knee joints and undiagnosed tendonitis, which kept him out of the tournament altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Though Gabriel will likely miss the opener against Brentford, his return could see him back in contention to face Chelsea on August 22. All in all, Arsenal fans will be slightly relieved with what could have been a far worse injury news update<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"rbl5Hra1RO90hl-nnu_FuA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1234385902\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'rbl5Hra1RO90hl-nnu_FuA',sig:'oyKlg36jD2vlQe6woPMAu47Lf9gCX6XfMoreuaQ3ozM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1234385902',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown to the new Premier League season continues to tick down, with less than a week to go until the first whistle.\u00a0Arsenal feature in the league opener on Friday, August 13, when they travel to newcomers Brentford, but have issued some injury news and have announced that they will be without trio Thomas Partey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3281,"featured_media":598526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,1830,30],"tags":[2809,4982,3276],"class_list":["post-598504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-injuries","category-news","tag-eddie-nketiah","tag-gabriel-magalhaes","tag-thomas-partey"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}