{"id":4984,"date":"2026-05-06T18:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:07:41","slug":"team-news-five-changes-in-wsl-return-team-news-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4984","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Five changes in WSL return | Team news | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ren\u00e9e Slegers has made five changes to the starting XI for this evening\u2019s Barclays Women\u2019s Super League clash with Brighton &#038; Hove Albion.<\/p>\n<p>Following our 3-1 defeat away to Lyon in the UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League semi-final second leg, the players coming into the side are Smilla Holmberg, Laia Codina, Taylor Hinds, Victoria Pelova and Frida Maanum.<\/p>\n<p>They replace Emily Fox, Leah Williamson, Katie McCabe, Mariona Caldentey and Stina Blackstenius.<\/p>\n<p>The players keeping their place in the 11 are Daphne van Domselaar, Lotte Wubben-Moy, Kim Little, Olivia Smith, Caitlin Foord and Alessia Russo.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off is at 7.45pm at Broadfield Stadium in Crawley as we look to keep the pressure on Manchester City.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"21a0bf86-57e7-41da-9318-6397be042911\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"127517\" about=\"\/news\/preview-brighton-v-arsenal-women-2\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title\" title=\"Preview: Brighton v Arsenal Women\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Preview: Brighton v Arsenal Women <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<h3>LINE-UP<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Arsenal XI: <\/strong>Van Domselaar, Holmberg, Wubben-Moy, Codina, Hinds, Pelova, Little (C), Maanum, Smith, Foord, Russo<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Borbe, Votikova, Fox, Williamson, McCabe, Mariona, Mead, Kelly, Blackstenius<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9e Slegers has made five changes to the starting XI for this evening\u2019s Barclays Women\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}