Arsenal playmaker Martin Odegaard may be a little sore in the morning after being clattered by Manchester City’s Rodri.
The Premier League is taking a back seat this weekend as international football takes centre stage.
It’s still hard to escape to Premier League title race though with Mikel Arteta and Pep Guardiola gunning for top spot.
City and Arsenal fans may have been paying close attention to one game on Saturday night.
Norway travelled to take on Spain, meaning Arsenal star Martin Odegaard was up against a couple of City stars.
Defender Aymeric Laporte and midfielder Rodri were both in action for Spain and Odegaard had an incident with the latter.
Rodri clatters into Arsenal star Martin Odegaard
Shortly after Dani Olmo fired Spain 1-0 up at La Rosaleda, Norway carved out a chance to equaliser.
The ball was cut back to Odegaard inside the box, and he produced a trademark jink away from one challenge.
That opened up the chance for a left-footed strike but Odegaard had his shot blocked.
The real controversy came with Rodri’s challenge though, as he went flying through Odegaard with a crunching tackle in an attempt to block the shot.
Odegaard was left writhing on the ground in pain, clutching his left ankle in a very worrying moment.
Odegaard managed to play on but he was left absolutely baffled at not receiving a penalty for Rodri hacking him down.
The incident sparked outrage from Arsenal fans on Twitter, who believe that Rodri intentionally scythed down Odegaard to try and injure him and dent Arsenal’s title push.
We can’t quite see that being true and Arsenal have already one major injury – the blow Gabriel Jesus suffered in December – won’t derail them.
We would though forgive Mikel Arteta for wincing slightly when he saw Odegaard go down though, with the Arsenal captain absolutely vital on and off the pitch.
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