{"id":420475,"date":"2026-02-11T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420475\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:01:08","slug":"team-news-five-changes-in-leuven-team-news-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420475\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Five changes in Leuven | Team news | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ren\u00e9e Slegers has made five changes to the starting line-up for this evening\u2019s UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League quarter-final play-off first leg.<\/p>\n

Leah Williamson returns to the XI alongside Laia Codina, the centre-back duo replacing Lotte Wubben-Moy and Steph Catley respectively.<\/p>\n

In midfield, Victoria Pelova comes in for Kim Little, the latter making her 400th appearance for Arsenal if she comes off the bench.<\/p>\n

Among the forwards, Frida Maanum replaces Alessia Russo and Chloe Kelly starts ahead of Beth Mead.<\/p>\n

The six players keeping their places are Daphne van Domselaar, Emily Fox, Katie McCabe, Mariona Caldentey, Caitlin Foord and Olivia Smith.<\/p>\n

We take on OH Leuven at 5.45pm BST, looking to earn an advantage in the tie ahead of next week\u2019s second leg in Borehamwood, which tickets are on general sale for.<\/a><\/p>\n

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OH Leuven XI: Seynhaeve, Janssen, Mertens, Biesmans (C), Everaerts, Kuijpers, Hermans, Pusztai, Bosteels, Conijnenberg, Reynders<\/p>\n

Substitutes: Lammertijn, Rispens, Nagy, Paptheodorou, Van Besauw, De Ceuster, Heremans, Neyrinck, Dekker, Van Holderbeke<\/p>\n

Arsenal XI: Van Domselaar, Fox, Williamson (C), Codina, McCabe, Pelova, Mariona, Maanum, Kelly, Foord, Smith<\/p>\n

Substitutes: Votikova, Williams, Wubben-Moy, Catley, Holmberg, Cooney-Cross, Little, Russo<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e Slegers has made five changes to the starting line-up for this evening\u2019s UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League quarter-final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-420475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}