{"id":562446,"date":"2026-05-02T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562446\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:25:08","slug":"team-news-five-changes-for-semi-final-second-leg-team-news-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562446\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Five changes for semi-final second leg | Team news | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9e Slegers has made five changes to the starting XI for this afternoon\u2019s UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League semi-final second leg away to Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>We go into the match 2-1 up on aggregate at Groupama Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Following Wednesday\u2019s 7-0 win at home to Leicester City in the Barclays Women\u2019s Super League, the players coming back into the side are Leah Williamson, Lotte Wubben-Moy, Mariona Caldentey, Caitlin Foord and Alessia Russo.<\/p>\n<p>They replace Laia Codina, Taylor Hinds, Victoria Pelova, Smilla Holmberg and Frida Maanum.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Kelly returns from injury to be included among the substitutes, with Sophie Harwood making way.<\/p>\n<p>Daphne van Domselaar remains in goal and Emily Fox, Katie McCabe, Kim Little, Olivia Smith and Stina Blackstenius also start.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/preview-lyon-v-arsenal-women-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: Lyon v Arsenal Women <\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nLINE-UPs<\/p>\n<p>Lyon XI:\u00a0Endler, Lawrence, Renard (C), Engen, Bacha, Heaps, Dumornay, Yohannes, Diani, Hegerberg, Brand<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Belhadj, Marchal, Becho, Shrader, Katoto, Egurrola, Sombath, Svava, Tarciane, Rafalski, Ouazar, Olivier<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal XI:\u00a0Van Domselaar, Fox, Williamson, Wubben-Moy, McCabe, Little (C), Mariona, Russo, Smith, Foord, Blackstenius<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Borbe, Votikova, Codina, Maanum, Kelly, Pelova, Hinds, Holmberg, Dixon<\/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 five changes to the starting XI for this afternoon\u2019s UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League semi-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562446","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\/562446","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=562446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}