{"id":3140,"date":"2026-05-13T17:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:18:35","slug":"team-news-three-changes-for-wsl-home-finale-team-news-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=3140","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Three changes for WSL home finale | Team news | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ren\u00e9e Slegers has made three changes to the starting XI for tonight\u2019s final Barclays Women\u2019s Super League home game of the season against Everton.<\/p>\n<p>Beth Mead comes back into the side for her final home game in red and white, after her upcoming departure from the club was announced earlier this week. She replaces Smilla Holmberg on the right wing.<\/p>\n<p>Also-departing Victoria Pelova replaces Kim Little in midfield, while Katie McCabe returns to left-back ahead of Taylor Hinds.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the defence remains the same from Saturday\u2019s 3-0 win away to Aston Villa, with Anneke Borbe, Emily Fox, Lotte Wubben-Moy and Laia Codina all keeping their places.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for Mariona Caldentey, Frida Maanum, Olivia Smith and Alessia Russo, with the latter wearing the captain\u2019s armband tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off is at 7pm at Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"4d769485-bce5-42b6-af84-8310795aca0f\" 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=\"127934\" about=\"\/news\/preview-arsenal-women-v-everton-0\">\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: Arsenal Women v Everton\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Preview: Arsenal Women v Everton <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3>LINE-UP<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Arsenal XI: <\/strong>Borbe, Fox, Wubben-Moy, Codina, McCabe, Pelova, Mariona, Maanum, Mead, Smith, Russo (C)<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Votikova, Van Domselaar, Williamson, Little, Kelly, Foord, Hinds, Blackstenius, Holmberg<\/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 three changes to the starting XI for tonight\u2019s final Barclays Women\u2019s Super League home game of the season against Everton. Beth Mead comes back into the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","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\/3140","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=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}