{"id":551819,"date":"2026-04-26T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:20:07","slug":"team-news-six-changes-for-lyon-first-leg-team-news-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551819\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Six changes for Lyon first leg | Team news | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9e Slegers has made six changes to the starting XI for this afternoon\u2019s UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League semi-final at home to Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s our first game since a 2-0 defeat against Brighton &amp; Hove Albion in the quarter-finals of the Adobe Women\u2019s FA Cup in early April.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into the side are Emily Fox, Leah Williamson, Katie McCabe, Olivia Smith, Caitlin Foord and Alessia Russo.<\/p>\n<p>They replace Smilla Holmberg, Laia Codina, Taylor Hinds, Beth Mead, Chloe Kelly and Frida Maanum respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Daphne van Domselaar remains in goal, while Lotte Wubben-Moy also keeps her place in defence, as do midfielders Mariona Caldentey and Kim Little. The same goes for Stina Blackstenius up top.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/preview-arsenal-women-v-lyon-0?utm_source=arsenaldotcom&amp;utm_medium=embedded-article&amp;utm_campaign=news\" class=\"article-card__wrapper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\n         Read more                              Preview: Arsenal Women v Lyon <\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nLINE-UPs<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal XI: Van Domselaar, Fox, Williamson, Wubben-Moy, McCabe, Little (C), Mariona, Russo, Smith, Foord, Blackstenius<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Borbe, Votikova, Codina, Hinds, Holmberg, Harwood, Pelova, Maanum<\/p>\n<p>Lyon XI: Endler, Lawrence, Renard (C), Engen, Svava, Heaps, Shrader, Yohannes, Diani, Hegerberg, Brand<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Belhadj, Bacha, Junttila Nelhage, Dumornay, Becho, Katoto, Egurrola, Fathallah, Sombath, Chawinga, Benyahia, Tarciane<\/p>\n<p>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 six changes to the starting XI for this afternoon\u2019s UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League semi-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-551819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551819","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=551819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}