{"id":12502,"date":"2022-03-18T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/03\/18\/arsenal-boss-mikel-arteta-provides-tomiyasu-update-ahead-of-aston-villa\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:01:13","slug":"arsenal-boss-mikel-arteta-provides-tomiyasu-update-ahead-of-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/03\/18\/arsenal-boss-mikel-arteta-provides-tomiyasu-update-ahead-of-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta provides Tomiyasu update ahead of Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Mikel Arteta would speak to the press on Friday ahead of Arsenal\u2019s clash with Aston Villa. The Gunners are set to take on Aston Villa in Saturday\u2019s only Premier League kick-off at 12:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the game, Arteta discussed a number of topics in his presser, including team news.<\/p>\n<p>Takehiro Tomiyasu has been out of action for several weeks now with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>And when speaking about the right-back on Friday, Arteta confirmed Tomiyasu has a chance of featuring at the weekend, but nothing is certain: \u201cThere is a chance, but we don\u2019t know. We will see in training how he is feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Arteta speaking now:<\/p>\n<p>On Tomiyasu: \u201cThere is a chance, but we don\u2019t know. We will see in training how he is feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charles Watts (@charles_watts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charles_watts\/status\/1504762337101856768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nArteta also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charles_watts\/status\/1504763518599507978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">praised<\/a> Steven Gerrard for the job he is doing at Villa: \u201cHe\u2019s brought a different energy to that stadium. 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Granted, it was not a terrible display from Arsenal, but Liverpool\u2019s quality would shine through.<\/p>\n<p>Said loss means that Arsenal now only have two games in hand on 5<sup>th<\/sup>-place Manchester United, one of which is the Villa tie.<\/p>\n<p>So, it is imperative that Arsenal pick up three points this weekend whilst United are not in action to put some distance between themselves and the top-four chasing sides.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/premier-league-betting-tips\/aston-villa-vs-arsenal-betting-tips-premier-league-preview\/\">Aston Villa vs Arsenal betting tips: Premier League preview, predictions and odds<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/premier-league-betting-tips\/wolverhampton-wanderers-vs-leeds-united-betting-tips-premier-league-preview-predictions-odds\/\">Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Leeds United betting tips: Premier League preview, predictions &amp; odds<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta would speak to the press on Friday ahead of Arsenal\u2019s clash with Aston Villa. The Gunners are set to take on Aston Villa in Saturday\u2019s only Premier League kick-off at 12:30 pm. Ahead of the game, Arteta discussed a number of topics in his presser, including team news. Takehiro Tomiyasu has been out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-12502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}