{"id":665366,"date":"2026-02-18T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=665366"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:14:37","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-team-news-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/18\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-team-news-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Team News and Predicted Lineup vs Wolves on February 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal continue to set the pace in the Premier League, currently sitting four points clear of Manchester City. They have undoubtedly found things tougher in 2026, but continue to grind out results. They have a last-16 Champions League tie and a Carabao Cup final to look forward to. Mikel Arteta\u2019s team returns to FA Cup action on February 15, as they face Wigan Athletic at the Emirates. Here is our Arsenal<\/span><\/a> predicted lineup, along with the latest team news<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Wolves<\/b><\/h2>\n

How Arsenal Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n

In their last Premier League game, the Gunners drew 1-1 away at Brentford. They started in their unusual 4-3-3 formation. David Raya started in goal, while Jurrien Timber, Cristhian Mosquera, Gabriel, and Piero Hincapie completed the defence.<\/p>\n

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In midfield, the Arsenal boss went with Declan Rice, Martin Zubimendi, and Eberechi Eze. In attack, Leandro Trossard and Noni Madueke supported Viktor Gyokeres.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

In the pre-match press conference<\/span><\/a>, Arteta spoke positively about the availability of Riccardo Calafiori:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s fine; he was training with us today, he\u2019s feeling better, and hopefully he\u2019s fit for tomorrow,\u201d said Arteta.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Arteta also addressed Ben White coming off against Wigan and said: \u201cIt was just a bit of fatigue, obviously he did a lot in the game and by the end of it, he was feeling a bit of tightness in the hamstring, but he\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Gunners boss also spoke about the imminent return of Martin Odegaard: \u201cNo, for Wolves he\u2019s not going to be fit. But for Sunday we\u2019re very hopeful that he can be with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kai Havertz could also return for the North London Derby against Tottenham on February 22:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKai is the other one that again, for the weekend is a possibility, so looking forward to having him in the squad,\u201d said Arteta.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n
GK: Raya<\/div>\n
LB: Hincapie<\/div>\n
CB: Saliba<\/div>\n
CB: Gabriel<\/div>\n
RB: Timber<\/div>\n
CM: Zubimendi<\/div>\n
CM: Rice<\/div>\n
CM: Eze<\/div>\n
LW: Trossard<\/div>\n
ST: Gyokeres<\/div>\n
RW: Madueke<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal continue to set the pace in the Premier League, currently sitting four points clear of Manchester City. They have undoubtedly found things tougher in 2026, but continue to grind out results. They have a last-16 Champions League tie and a Carabao Cup final to look forward to. Mikel Arteta\u2019s team returns to FA Cup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":665367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<\/smartframe-embed>","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,3,2510],"tags":[9689],"class_list":["post-665366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-premier-league","category-wolves","tag-arsenal-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665369,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665366\/revisions\/665369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}