Steph Catley and Beth Mead will miss Arsenal\u2019s Champions League semi-final first leg against Lyon.<\/p>\n
The Gunners take on the record Champions League winners at the Emirates on Sunday but will be without two of their key players.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, they won\u2019t be available,\u201d boss Renee Slegers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSteph is still recovering from her calf issue. So hopefully we\u2019ll see her later on. Beth is not with us, hasn\u2019t been with us this week because of personal reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stay up to date with all the latest women\u2019s football news by\u00a0joining our WhatsApp channel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Arsenal are looking to reach consecutive Champions League finals having won the competition last season.<\/p>\n \u201cLast year was last year, this year is this year,\u201d Slegers insisted, however. \u201cThe set-up of the competition has changed and a lot of things have changed since then. I think for us, for them, I think we still have the same identity. <\/p>\n \u201cI think they have their style of play, we have our style of play. And yeah, coincidence or chance by chance, we\u2019re in the exact same position again in the semi-final playing against each other, first at home at the Emirates and the second one away. But with that being said, that was last year, everything is different this year.\u201d<\/p>\n If you enjoy our articles, help us out by making Hayters.com one of your preferred sources on Google\u00a0by clicking here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steph Catley and Beth Mead will miss Arsenal\u2019s Champions League semi-final first leg against Lyon. The Gunners take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-549022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549022","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=549022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}