{"id":1646,"date":"2026-05-30T21:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2026-05-30T21:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:45:37","slug":"arsenal-mikel-arteta-confirms-huge-injury-boost-ahead-of-champions-league-final-vs-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal: Mikel Arteta confirms huge injury boost ahead of Champions League final vs PSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s right-sided Dutch full back Jurrien Timber will be fit to start the side\u2019s Champions League final against Paris St Germain on Saturday, manager Mikel Arteta has said.<\/p>\n<p>Timber has been out with an injury since March, but <strong>Arteta<\/strong> said he was now available for Saturday\u2019s showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is fit,\u201d Arteta told reporters on Friday. \u201cNoni (Madueke) as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal<\/strong>who have just won their first domestic title in 22 years, are facing PSG in Budapest \u200cseeking to lift the Champions League trophy for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s clash in Budapest has the newly crowned English champions go up against a swaggering Paris St Germain side that dumped them out of the competition last year in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: Five reasons why \u20181-0 to the Arsenal\u2019 is inevitable in the Champions League final<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s first domestic triumph in 22 years means they are going into Saturday\u2019s showpiece with their tails up and looking to confirm their status among Europe\u2019s elite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the opportunity tomorrow to write a new chapter in the history of the football club,\u201d Arteta told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to play tomorrow with such a clarity, a lot of courage and desire to win, but we have those three aspects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard said the Premier League win had not eased the pressure on his side; rather, it had fuelled the players\u2019 fire.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"598d587f82f0613dc60f89d2daf94a61\" image-id=\"brfcWf4pfM9w\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ambition is bigger,\u201d Arteta said. \u201cWe have won and we want the second one,that is all we have been talking about. That has to be a platform to reach bigger destinations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: Who makes it into a combined Arsenal and PSG XI? Saka misses out\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much has been made of the demands of the Premier League compared to France\u2019s Ligue 1, but Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka said there would be no fatigue given the trophy at stake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA game like this is not going to be decided on minutes, it is going to be decided by moments,\u201d Saka said. \u201cIt is a massive opportunity to do something special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arteta said he still felt Arsenal had been unlucky to lose to PSG last year and praised their manager Luis Enrique as an \u201cinspiration\u201d and architect of his side\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>There was little room for sentiment otherwise though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (PSG) are defending the trophy, they are the champions and we are here to take it away from them,\u201d Arteta said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>READ NEXT: Do we all owe Lego Head Mikel Arteta an apology?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal\u2019s right-sided Dutch full back Jurrien Timber will be fit to start the side\u2019s Champions League final against Paris St Germain on Saturday, manager Mikel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}