{"id":360074,"date":"2016-07-26T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/sports\/2016\/07\/26\/arsenals-mertesacker-facing-five-months-out-with-knee-injury\/"},"modified":"2016-07-26T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:48:17","slug":"arsenals-mertesacker-facing-five-months-out-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/07\/26\/arsenals-mertesacker-facing-five-months-out-with-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal\u2019s Mertesacker facing five months out with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker could be out for up to five months with a knee injury, Sky Sports News HQ understands.<\/p>\n<p>The German centre-back suffered the problem during Friday night\u2019s friendly against Lens and was left out of Arsenal\u2019s pre-season tour of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are yet to confirm the news but we understand an announcement will be made in the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__widge-container article__widge-container--edge\">\n<figure class=\"widge-figure\">\n<div class=\"widge-figure__body\">\n<div class=\"auto-size-16\/9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-size__target postpone-load--fade-in widge-figure__image\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mertesacker-perr-arsenal-fa-cuo-watford_3431067.jpg\" alt=\"Mertesacker is a candidate to take over the Arsenal captaincy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mertesacker-perr-arsenal-fa-cuo-watford_3431067.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mertesacker is a candidate to take over the Arsenal captaincy<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mertesacker, who was Arsenal\u2019s vice-captain last season, was favourite to be named new club captain at the Emirates following Mikel Arteta\u2019s departure to Manchester City in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Arsene Wenger\u2019s side have problems at centre-back with Gabriel Paulista struggling with tonsillitis and Laurent Koscielny allowed an extended break after reaching the final of Euro 2016 with France.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__widge-container article__widge-container--edge\">\n<figure class=\"widge-figure\">\n<div class=\"widge-figure__body\">\n<div class=\"auto-size-16\/9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-size__target postpone-load--fade-in widge-figure__image\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/calum-chambers-arsenal-goal-celebration_3407946.jpg\" alt=\"Calum Chambers will be Arsenal's most senior central defender on their pre-season tour in America\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/calum-chambers-arsenal-goal-celebration_3407946.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>That leaves Calum Chambers as Arsenal\u2019s only fit senior central defender\u00a0but new signing Rob Holding could partner his England U21 colleague in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal play an MLS All-Star team on Friday and finish their tour against Chivas on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: Sky Sports<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker could be out for up to five months with a knee injury, Sky Sports News HQ understands. The German centre-back suffered the problem during Friday night\u2019s friendly against Lens and was left out of Arsenal\u2019s pre-season tour of the United States. Arsenal are yet to confirm the news but we understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arsenal\u2019s Mertesacker facing five months out with knee injury - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/07\/26\/arsenals-mertesacker-facing-five-months-out-with-knee-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Arsenal\u2019s Mertesacker facing five months out with knee injury - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker could be out for up to five months with a knee injury, Sky Sports News HQ understands. 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