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  "path": "/2026/05/28/jurrien-timber-injury-update-arsenal-train-champions-league-final-28555154/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T13:11:13.000Z",
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    "Sport",
    "Arsenal",
    "Champions League",
    "Jurrien Timber",
    "Mikel Arteta",
    "Paris Saint-Germain",
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    "Timber will be ready to start after such an extended layoff.",
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  "textContent": "Timber has missed Arsenal’s last 14 games (Picture: Getty)\n\nJurrien Timber has returned to first-team training ahead of Arsenal’s Champions League final showdown with Paris Saint-Germain.\n\nThe Netherlands international has not played since the victory over Everton in March, missing 14 games with a troublesome groin injury.\n\nHis absence has been greatly felt at right-back with Ben White’s season-ending knee injury handing Mikel Arteta another huge selection problem.\n\nBut Timber returned to individual training earlier this week, joining up with his teammates on Wednesday.\n\n##  The countdown is on\n\nOur seven-day guide to the World Cup is live. 48 teams, 104 games, 1104 players – we've got everything you need to know. Sign up now.\n\nThe former Ajax star came through that session unscathed and could now be in contention to mark his return against the European champions in Budapest on Saturday.\n\nTimber was this week included in the Netherlands squad for the World Cup after missing the last two months of action.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Dutch boss Ronald Koeman revealed the Arsenal defender was poised to train with his club teammates.\n\nTimber has not played since March (Picture: Getty)\n\n‘The situation with him is that he was due to train with the squad today, to see how things look ahead of the weekend,’ Koeman said.\n\n‘They have the Champions League final on Saturday. We’ll have to wait and see if he’ll make it.’\n\nIt remains to be seen whether Timber is deemed fit enough to start against PSG where he will be directly up against one of the best wingers on world football in Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.\n\nDeclan Rice has been used at right-back twice this season with Martin Zubimendi taking up the unfamiliar role on Sunday against Crystal Palace in a much-changed starting XI.\n\nMosquera has filled in on the right (Picture: Getty)\n\nCristhian Mosquera has deputised in the absence of Timber and White, filling the void impressively having been moved out from centre-half.\n\nEmmanuel Eboue, who started at right-back the last time Arsenal were in a Champions League final 20 years ago, has urged Arteta to keep faith in the former Villarreal star, not convinced Timber will be ready to start after such an extended layoff.\n\n‘Timber will want to play,’ Eboue told **Metro**. ‘As a player, your dream is to play the Champions League final. I think for him, he will want 100 per cent want to start.\n\n‘But he has not played for a long time. He has to wait a little bit then we can see. The PSG team, they are so strong and so fast so I think it is better for Arteta to leave him on the bench.’\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Jurrien Timber injury update as Arsenal train for Champions League final"
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