Martin Odegaard offers 'positive' update as Arsenal captain addresses injury for first time

Arsenal skipper Martin Odegaard says helium is “making progress” with his ankle wounded and helium is aiming to beryllium backmost arsenic “quickly arsenic possible”.

Odegaard injured his ankle portion connected planetary work with Norway playing against Austria earlier this month.

Odegaard has revealed the wounded is not arsenic atrocious arsenic helium archetypal feared and helium is moving hard to beryllium backmost arsenic soon arsenic possible.

“It’s been a portion since my past programme notes, truthful I thought I would commencement with the latest connected my injury,” said Odegaard, up of Arsenal’s Carabao Cup crippled with Bolton.

“It was a atrocious twist to my ankle, and I damaged immoderate ligaments there, but it’s portion of shot and present I’m conscionable trying to retrieve arsenic rapidly arsenic I can.

“I’m moving forward, making advancement and I’m feeling much affirmative each day. I’m moving hard and my lone thought is to get backmost arsenic soon arsenic possible.

“I’m astatine the Sobha Realty Training Centre fundamentally each time now, moving hard and doing everything I tin bash to get better.

“I person to beryllium cautious not to propulsion it excessively much, but astatine the aforesaid clip bash what I tin to marque definite I travel backmost arsenic powerfully and rapidly arsenic possible. I’m trying to enactment the squad successful a antithetic mode now, if I can’t beryllium connected the pitch. That’s my situation, and I person to marque the champion retired of it.

“It's thing I’m not utilized to. I’ve been rather fortunate, if that’s the word, oregon person done good to debar injuries successful the past, but this is shot and I person to get connected with it.

“I deliberation it was unfortunate to get the wounded successful the mode that I did, but besides it could person been worse. It was not a bully twist, and erstwhile it happened I felt it could beryllium serious.

“I’ve injured my ankle earlier and the symptom felt a spot antithetic this time. That’s what frightened me, but from what happened it could person been worse, truthful successful that consciousness I got distant with it a bit.

“Like immoderate player, the archetypal happening I asked the aesculapian squad was however agelong I would beryllium retired for, but it’s a spot tricky to accidental astatine the moment. In the aboriginal stages, it's important to get a due remainder and to marque definite everything heals well. After that it’s astir getting stronger and gathering it up again.”