{"id":3543,"date":"2014-04-15T04:19:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T04:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2014-04-15T04:19:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T04:19:45","slug":"gunners-to-play-wham-without-eight-first-team-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/gunners-to-play-wham-without-eight-first-team-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunners To Play W\/Ham Without Eight First Team Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"row1\">\n<div id=\"row1\">\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Aaron Ramsey, Lukas Podolski, Nacho Monreal, Kieran Gibbs, Tomas Rosicky and Laurent Koscielny are all doubts for Tuesday&#8217;s home clash with West Ham. The casualty list is a result of the Gunners&#8217; FA Cup semi-final match against Wigan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Left back Monreal is the biggest doubt\u00a0while Koscielny and Rosicky \u00a0will both have another fitness tests on Tuesday morning to assess whether they will be in the Gunners\u00a0quad.<\/p>\n<p>Boss Arsene Wenger\u00a0knows his biggest danger against West Ham is fatigue after his players had 120 minutes against Wigan on Sunday and they cannot afford slip-ups in the battle for fourth place.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger said: &#8220;I cannot give you complete team news because many of them have to be checked today. We have plenty of uncertainties for muscular problems and fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who could be available who was not in the squad on Saturday, maybe Rosicky, we&#8217;ll have to test him today, maybe Koscielny, we&#8217;ll have to test him definitely today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are plenty of uncertainties, I have to make up my mind late on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The] main uncertainties are Monreal who had to come off. Podolski had a little problem but I think he will be alright, then Oxlade-Chamberlain because he was not even supposed to play on Saturday. Ramsey who had to come off for muscle tightness. They are the main problems.<\/p>\n<p>Podolski, who had to have a dislocated finger put back in during the FA Cup semi final, is expected to be fit despite a muscle problem.<\/p>\n<p>There was also good news for Jack Wilshere as Wenger is confident that he will play again before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Aaron Ramsey, Lukas Podolski, Nacho Monreal, Kieran Gibbs, Tomas Rosicky and Laurent Koscielny are all doubts for Tuesday&#8217;s home clash with West Ham. The casualty list is a result of the Gunners&#8217; FA Cup semi-final match against Wigan on Saturday. Left back Monreal is the biggest doubt\u00a0while Koscielny and Rosicky \u00a0will both have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}