Odegaard on fitness, free-kicks and Rambo reunion

Before every game at Emirates Stadium, Martin Odegaard lifts the lid on the mood in the camp via his captain’s notes published in the matchday programme.

Ahead of this afternoon's meeting with Southampton, he gives an update on his injury, his relief at seeing us score a free-kick against PSG and what it'll be like to see Aaron Ramsdale again. Here's a snippet:

I just wanted to start with the latest on my injury and rehab. In the last week or so I’ve made really good progress. I’m getting better and better by the day and feel it’s going well. When you feel like things are moving forward, it gives you motivation to do more and more, and work harder.

Today is our last game before another international break, so that gives me some more time to work on the rehab, too. Hopefully it won’t be much longer; I think we will know more as soon as I get out on the training pitches and we see how my ankle responds to that. At the moment it’s progressing well and it looks better than we were thinking, but we’ve still got to take every day as it comes.

Anyway, it looks as though the team don’t really need me at the moment! We have been playing so well lately and got another good result on Tuesday against Paris Saint-Germain. We gave away hardly anything and it was another solid and strong performance. We played really well in the first half, we were good on the ball, scored a couple and could have had more. We didn’t concede a lot of chances – they had a couple of openings with Hakimi, but apart from that we showed again how solid we are. It was a good performance in a lot of different areas.

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