{"id":6834,"date":"2026-02-12T19:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/02\/12\/havertz-to-miss-rest-of-february-after-new-muscular-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:52:04","slug":"havertz-to-miss-rest-of-february-after-new-muscular-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/02\/12\/havertz-to-miss-rest-of-february-after-new-muscular-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Havertz to Miss Rest of February After New &#8220;muscular injury&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kai Havertz will be unavailable for the remainder of February after sustaining a reported &#8220;muscular injury.&#8221; The Athletic reports the setback means the former Chelsea player is not expected to be fit for the north London derby on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of Havertz\u2019s recovery softened the blow of losing Mikel Merino for most, if not all, of the rest of the season. Even so, the German will miss a run of fixtures that includes Premier League trips to Brentford and Wolverhampton Wanderers plus an FA Cup fourth-round tie against Wigan Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>Fixtures affected before the derby are listed as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feb. 12, 2026 \u2014 Brentford vs. Arsenal, Premier League<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 15, 2026 \u2014 Arsenal vs. Wigan Athletic, FA Cup<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 18, 2026 \u2014 Wolves vs. Arsenal, Premier League<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 22, 2026 \u2014 Tottenham vs. Arsenal, Premier League<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arsenal are scheduled to face Chelsea on the first day of March and, as things stand, Havertz could be available for that match. The club do not believe this latest problem to be as serious as some of his previous layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Havertz was largely injury free in 2023\u201324 following his \u00a365 million ($88.6 million) arrival, but by the end of this month he will have missed over half (53) of Arsenal\u2019s 101 games since the start of last season.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate context for the squad is the Premier League title race. Manchester City\u2019s win against Fulham at the Etihad Stadium closed the gap at the top of the table to three points. Arsenal can restore a six-point cushion when their game in hand is played on Thursday, but they must beat Brentford at the Gtech Community Stadium to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kai Havertz will miss Arsenal&#8217;s remaining February fixtures after suffering a &#8220;muscular injury&#8221;. Feb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,1303,969],"tags":[1312,1359,1376],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-arsenal-news","category-premier-league","tag-arsenal-fitness","tag-arsenal-injury","tag-arsenal-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}