{"id":6398,"date":"2026-05-09T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:10:52","slug":"team-news-three-changes-for-villa-park-trip-team-news-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6398","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Three changes for Villa Park trip | Team news | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ren\u00e9e Slegers has made three changes to her team to face Aston Villa at Villa Park in the Barclays Women&#8217;s Super League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anneke Borbe starts in place of Daphne van Domselaar in goal, with Emily Fox in the backline alongside Lotte Wubben-Moy, Laia Codina and Taylor Hinds.<\/p>\n<p>Mariona Caldentey replaces Victoria Pelova in the midfield to partner captain Kim Little. Smilla Holmberg pushes into attack, joining Olivia Smith, Friday Maanum and Alessia Russo to complete the line-up.<\/p>\n<p>You can read our in-depth preview ahead of our trip to Birmingham at midday below!<\/p>\n<h2>LINE-UPS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Arsenal: <\/strong>Borbe, Fox, Wubben-Moy, Codina, Hinds, Caldentey, Little, Maanum, Smith, Holmberg, Russo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Substitutes: <\/strong>Votikova, Van Domselaar, Mead, Kelly, Foord, Pelova, Blackstenius<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"b687711c-14c1-453b-a686-16efbf1160cf\" 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=\"127697\" about=\"\/news\/preview-aston-villa-v-arsenal-women-3\">\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: Aston Villa v Arsenal Women\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Preview: Aston Villa v Arsenal Women <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\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 three changes to her team to face Aston Villa at Villa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6398","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\/6398","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=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}