{"id":1649,"date":"2026-04-04T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:10:10","slug":"team-news-odegaard-and-dowman-start-v-southampton-team-news-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Odegaard and Dowman start v Southampton | Team news | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Martin Odegaard returns to captain us at St Mary&#8217;s for our Emirates FA Cup quarter-final clash against Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>Our skipper, who last started against Brentford in February, is one of seven changes from the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Kepa Arrizabalaga starts in goal, with Ben White, Cristhian Mosquera, Gabriel Magalhaes and Myles Lewis-Skelly making up the backline.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Norgaard joins Martin in the midfield. Kai Havertz, Gabriel Martinelli, Max Dowman and Gabriel Jesus complete the line-up on the south coast.<\/p>\n<p>Three academy starlets are among the substitutes, with Andre Harriman-Annous, Marli Salmon and Ceadach O&#8217;Neill all on Mikel Arteta&#8217;s bench.<\/p>\n<h2>LINE-UP<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Arsenal:<\/strong> Arrizabalaga, White, Mosquera, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Norgaard, Odegaard, Havertz, Dowman, Martinelli, Jesus <\/p>\n<p><strong>Substitutes:<\/strong> Raya, Lintasa, Gyokeres, Madueke, Calafiori, Zubimendi, Harriman-Annous, O&#8217;Neill, Salmon<\/p>\n<p>Read the full preview ahead of our trip to the south coast.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"7b83544d-9722-4d97-bb0d-ad3a9914a636\" 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=\"126032\" about=\"\/news\/preview-southampton-v-arsenal-1\">\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: Southampton v Arsenal\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Preview: Southampton v Arsenal <\/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>Martin Odegaard returns to captain us at St Mary&#8217;s for our Emirates FA Cup quarter-final clash against Southampton. Our skipper, who last started against Brentford in February, is one of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}