Martin Odegaard’s four-word Instagram message amid huge double Arsenal announcement

Martin Odegaard returned from damage in Norway’s 2-1 decline against Slovenia on Saturday and could be in line to reclaim his Arsenal spot for the North London Derby

Martin Odegaard will not be continuing a development of Arsenal players returning from global responsibility previously than predicted.

The Gunners captain manufactured his return from a calf injury – handing Mikel Arteta a huge team variety raise for upcoming Saturday’s North London Derby towards Tottenham Hotspur in the system – by beginning and enjoying 71 minutes of Norway’s 2-1 UEFA Nations League defeat at the fingers of Slovenia.

In truth of the matter, Odegaard did supply a health and fitness update when speaking to Norwegian media outlet Tv set2 in advance of the activity and it sounded good: “We can hope so,” he stated when questioned if he envisioned to get started. “It feels superior so much. Sure [if he is ready to start], I would like to imagine so.”

Odegaard’s visual appearance arrived just hrs just after it was verified that two of his Arsenal teammates ended up on their way again to London, with Thomas Partey necessitating additional assessment on a suspected knee harm, although Takehiro Tomiyasu’s withdrawal from the Japan squad was “due to club situations.”

But judging by the 23-calendar year-old’s social media activity, it would look that he is not likely to be the third Gunners player to head again to London Colney forward of schedule as he posted an image of the Norway nationwide group on to his Instagram Tales with the caption that read through: “Ses pa tirsdag”.

That in English translates to a very simple 4-word information: “See you on Tuesday”. This is the clearest sign that Odegaard will be major his region out towards Serbia as they glimpse for the final result that secures top place in their UEFA Nations League group which also comes with a participate in-off location for Euro 2024 qualification.

There had been a state of affairs that might have allowed Arsenal and Norway to access a compromise for the playmaker to participate in just 1 of the Nations League fixtures. But for that to have happened, Stale Solbakken’s aspect essential to have held on to the guide offered to them by Erling Haaland and hoped for a favour from Sweden from Serbia.

In the long run neither final result went in Norway’s favour and following an Alexander Mitrovic hat-trick in Serbia’s 4-1 get more than Sweden on Saturday, it’s efficiently winner requires all on Tuesday at the Ullevaall Stadion in Oslo – although the hosts have a slight benefit figuring out that they just need to stay away from defeat to be promoted to League A.

With that reported, the very good information from an Arsenal point of view is that Odegaard seems to have occur by means of the game unscathed and the hope is that he repeats the trick on Tuesday – if selected – in what is shaping up to be two large game titles for the midfielder for club and country following 7 days.