{"id":884745,"date":"2026-01-13T08:12:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/mikel-arteta-responds-to-gabriel-martinellis-shocking-treatment-of-injured-liverpool-star\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:12:44","slug":"mikel-arteta-responds-to-gabriel-martinellis-shocking-treatment-of-injured-liverpool-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/mikel-arteta-responds-to-gabriel-martinellis-shocking-treatment-of-injured-liverpool-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta responds to Gabriel Martinelli\u2019s shocking treatment of injured Liverpool star"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"article\">\n<div>\n<header>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<time datetime=\"2026-01-08T22:53:10+00:00\">January 8th 2026, 22:53<\/time><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div><picture><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/COS-FeaturedHero-Image-Templates-33-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mikel Arteta responds to that Gabriel Martinelli incident\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>Mikel Arteta responds to that Gabriel Martinelli incident<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p><strong>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is sure that Gabriel Martinelli did not mean to do anything bad to injured Liverpool right-back Conor Bradley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish tactician spoke to Sky Sports after the game between Arsenal and Liverpool, which finished 0-0 at the Emirates Stadium and which ended with something of a fracas between both sets of players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2026\/01\/08\/arsenals-gabriel-martinelli-slammed-for-conor-bradley-incident\/\">Martinelli has been widely criticised for trying to push Bradley<\/a> off the pitch while he was seriously injured, with the Reds defender ending up going off on a stretcher.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazil international seemed to really lose his head as he felt Bradley was time-wasting even though he clearly had a bad problem that meant he couldn\u2019t carry on playing.<\/p>\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"881\" src=\"https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Gabriel-Martinelli-warming-up-for-Arsenal.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel Martinelli warming up for Arsenal\"  ><figcaption>Gabriel Martinelli warming up for Arsenal (Photo by Alex Pantling\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Mikel Arteta on Gabriel Martinelli incident with Conor Bradley<\/h2>\n<p>Watch below as Arteta insists Martinelli must not have known how bad the injury was, as he can\u2019t imagine his player intending to cause any further harm to a fellow professional\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?? &#8220;Obviously there is no intention from Gabi to do anything bad to him&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta says Gabriel Martinelli would not intentionally hurt Conor Bradley. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x4sJnh0ZEK\">pic.twitter.com\/x4sJnh0ZEK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/2009393116122358261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cProbably he doesn\u2019t know,\u201d Arteta said. \u201cBecause knowing Gabi there\u2019s zero intention. I don\u2019t know what happened to Conor but hopefully it\u2019s not bad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut obviously there is no intention from Gabi to do anything bad to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Pundits criticise Arsenal\u2019s Gabriel Martinelli<\/h2>\n<p>Also speaking on Sky\u2019s coverage of the game, pundits Daniel Sturridge and Roy Keane were hugely unimpressed with Martinelli\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Watch below as Sturridge described it as \u201cworse than disrespectful\u201d, while Keane thought it was clear that faking an injury is not the kind of thing Bradley would do\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It&#8217;s even worse than disrespectful&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Sturridge and Roy Keane react to Gabriel Martinelli&#8217;s actions in the final minutes of Arsenal vs Liverpool. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K7vLrnn6iD\">pic.twitter.com\/K7vLrnn6iD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/2009390127307477488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/09\/16\/gabriel-martinelli-arsenal-goal-athletic-club-bilbao\/\">Martinelli is a key player for Arsenal<\/a> and can be a great talent to watch when he\u2019s on his game, though this was an ugly incident that he\u2019ll need to put behind him.<\/p>\n<p>No one wants to see antics like this on the pitch and it\u2019s a shame that it was the only really noteworthy incident from a pretty bland game at the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p><span><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ElF7wIS_1o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t Mark Brus <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2026\/01\/08\/arsenals-mikel-arteta-defends-gabriel-martinelli\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 8th 2026, 22:53 Mikel Arteta responds to that Gabriel Martinelli incident Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is sure that Gabriel Martinelli did not mean to do anything bad to injured Liverpool right-back Conor Bradley. The Spanish tactician spoke to Sky Sports after the game between Arsenal and Liverpool, which finished 0-0 at the Emirates Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27655,35787],"tags":[42804,84170],"class_list":["post-884745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arteta","category-mikel","tag-arteta","tag-mikel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}