{"id":1616,"date":"2026-02-13T09:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:02:53","slug":"havertz-could-miss-four-matches-with-muscle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Havertz could miss four matches with muscle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal forward Kai Havertz has picked up a muscle injury and is set for another spell on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The Germany attacker will miss Thursday&#8217;s Premier League match at Brentford and is likely to miss the FA Cup game against Wigan on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal face north London rivals Tottenham on 22 February and Havertz is also a doubt for that fixture &#8211; meaning he could miss up to four matches with the Gunners also playing Wolves next week in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Havertz has struggled with injuries and had only recently recovered from a knee problem he picked up on the opening day of the season which had kept him out for about five months.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that problem, Havertz injured his hamstring on a training camp in Dubai in February 2025 and needed surgery on the issue which saw him miss the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>His latest injury is a concern for Mikel Arteta as the Gunners boss is also without midfielder Mikel Merino who has had surgery on a foot problem.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Martin Odegaard, England attacker Bukayo Saka and youngster Max Dowman have also been missing through injury in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: RhinoEasy News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal forward Kai Havertz has picked up a muscle injury and is set for another spell on the sidelines. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}