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Declan Rice reveals he has been battling illness and was not 100% against Sporting CP: “Yeah, I'm fully fit. Yeah, I've been ill the last two days. Been in bed, not well. So, yeah, to get out tonight, obviously, I perked up this morning enough to be able to play. I wasn't at 100%.
“To help this team out, no way I was missing a quarter-final to try and get to a semi-final. I was well enough to be able to go out there and play tonight, just a little illness and I'm over it now. So, yeah, on to Sunday.
Reporter: Do you take that upon yourself because the likes of Martin [Odegaard] and Bukayo [Saka] and Jurrien [Timber] are out at the moment and you see yourself obviously as a big leader on this team?”
Rice: “Yeah, definitely. I think we want them players back. We need them back. They are three of our biggest and best players and we've missed them a lot this year in big games.
“But yeah, like you said, if the game was yesterday, I probably wouldn't have been able to have played or the day before. But the fact that I perked up enough to be able to play, I knew myself and in my head that I was ready to go out there and play.
“That's what it's about, play for this club under any conditions. So I'm happy I've done that tonight and we're through.”
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Declan Rice has recovered from illness and is part of the Arsenal squad to face Sporting Clube de Portugal in todays UCL Quarter Final.
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