{"id":137684,"date":"2025-09-06T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:49:07","slug":"team-news-smith-makes-debut-for-wsl-opener-team-news-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137684\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Smith makes debut for WSL opener | Team news | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer signing Olivia Smith will make her competitive debut for the Arsenal this afternoon for our Barclays WSL opener against London City Lionesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old forward will line up at Emirates Stadium alongside Chloe Kelly and Alessia Russo, who signed a new contract with the club on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Little will captain our squad, joined by Mariona Caldentey and Victoria Pelova in the midfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>18-year-old Katie Reid makes her second-ever WSL start against London City, paired with Steph Catley at the back. Katie McCabe and Emily Fox complete the backline, with Daphne van Domselaar between the sticks.<\/p>\n<p>STARTING XI: Van Domselaar, Fox, Catley, Mariona, Little (C), McCabe, Smith, Kelly, Pelova, Russo, Reid<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Zinsberger, Wubben-Moy, Codina, Mead, Maanum, Foord, Hinds, Blackstenius, Cooney-Cross<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 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":"Summer signing Olivia Smith will make her competitive debut for the Arsenal this afternoon for our Barclays WSL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-137684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}