{"id":44801,"date":"2025-04-23T20:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44801\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:55:13","slug":"saka-sarr-mateta-benched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44801\/","title":{"rendered":"Saka, Sarr + Mateta benched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u2019s match at the Emirates Stadium rounds off Gameweek 33, but there are some notable names on substitute duty this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal v Crystal Palace gets underway at 20:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bukayo Saka<\/strong>, who picked up a knock in Sunday\u2019s win over Ipswich Town, is on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta has made four changes in total.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben White<\/strong> and <strong>Mikel Merino<\/strong> are not in the matchday squad, while <strong>Oleksandr Zinchenko<\/strong> is named among the substitutes alongside Saka.<\/p>\n<p>In come <strong>Jurrien Timber<\/strong>, <strong>Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/strong>, <strong>Thomas Partey <\/strong>and <strong>Raheem Sterling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Glasner has also decided to freshen up his starting XI.<\/p>\n<p>He makes four alterations too, with <strong>Jefferson Lerma<\/strong>, <strong>Daichi Kamada<\/strong>, <strong>Justin Devenny<\/strong> and <strong>Eddie Nketiah<\/strong> replacing the suspended <strong>Chris Richards<\/strong> and benched <strong>Will Hughes<\/strong>, <strong>Ismaila Sarr<\/strong> and <strong>Jean-Philippe Mateta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If Palace win tonight, it would mean Liverpool clinch the Premier League title.<\/p>\n<p>LINE-UPS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal XI:<\/strong> Raya, Timber, Saliba, Kiwior, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Odegaard, Rice, Sterling, Martinelli, Trossard<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Neto, Tierney, Saka, Zinchenko, Butler-Oyedeji, Gower, Henry-Francis, Kabia, Nwaneri<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crystal Palace XI:<\/strong> Henderson, Munoz, Lerma, Lacroix, Guehi, Mitchell, Wharton, Kamada, Eze, Devenny, Nketiah<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Turner, Ward, Franca, Sarr, Mateta, Clyne, Hughes, Esse, Kporha<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/joinffscout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/statsbomb-header-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125287 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday\u2019s match at the Emirates Stadium rounds off Gameweek 33, but there are some notable names on substitute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24735,24736,748,393,86,24737,4884,12,1144,24738,1853,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-44801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arsenal-line-up","9":"tag-arsenal-v-palace-line-ups","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-fpl","13":"tag-gameweek-33","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-palace-line-up","18":"tag-saka","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114389275414712204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}