{"id":666815,"date":"2026-03-17T14:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=666815"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:52:05","slug":"arsenal-vs-leverkusen-team-news-confirmed-lineups-second-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/03\/17\/arsenal-vs-leverkusen-team-news-confirmed-lineups-second-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Leverkusen: Team News and Confirmed Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Leverkusen, the Last-16 second-leg Champions League<\/span><\/a> showdown. Arsenal<\/span><\/a> will be high on confidence after their vital 2-0 win over Everton in the Premier League. Leverkusen gained a point against Bayern Munich at the weekend. Despite their injury problems, the Germans appear confident they can cause an upset.<\/p>\n

Champions League: Arsenal vs Leverkusen, Team News and Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n

Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

During the pre-match press conference<\/span><\/a>, Arteta reflected on the 2-0 win over Everton at the weekend, before discussing injury news: \u201cYes, both of them are out,\u201d said Arteta when asked about the availability of Jurrien Timber and Martin Odegaard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Confirming the welcome recovery of Leandro Trossard, Arteta said: \u201cHe\u2019s okay, he felt good so he\u2019s available.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Leverkusen Team News<\/h3>\n

Looking ahead to the second leg, Leverkusen boss Kasper Hjulmand said<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the third big game in just a few days. We\u2019re ready. The team is raring to go, and I really like that. We\u2019ve come here to win this game,” he said at his pre-match press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a player, you don\u2019t know how many chances you get on this stage. It\u2019s a chance we should take.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re expecting a special atmosphere in the stadium and opponents who will certainly look to start the game in an active, attacking and aggressive manner,\u201d \u00a0said the Bayer 04 coach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re ready for that and have already put in some good performances this season, including in the Champions League.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leverkusen continue to have injury worries, with Elisse Ben Seghir, Mark Flekken, Loic Bade, Lucas Vasquez and Arthur among likely absentees.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Arsenal<\/strong>:Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie, Zubimendi, Rice, Eze, Saka, Trossard, Gyokeres.<\/span><\/p>\n

Subs<\/strong>: Arrizabalaga, Ranson, Mosquera, Jesus, , Martinelli, Norgaard, Madueke, Havertz, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leverkusen Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Leverkusen: <\/strong>Blaswich, Quansah, Andrich, Terrier, Tapsoba, Poku, Grimaldo, Garcia, Palacios, Maza, Kofane.<\/span><\/p>\n

Subs: <\/strong>Omlin, Lomb, Fernandez, Hofmann, Tillman, Schick, Oermann, Tape, Culbreath.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Leverkusen, the Last-16 second-leg Champions League showdown. Arsenal will be high on confidence after their vital 2-0 win over Everton in the Premier League. Leverkusen gained a point against Bayern Munich at the weekend. Despite their injury problems, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":647081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_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":[31833,8,4,378,30,3,1831],"tags":[32547,32784],"class_list":["post-666815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bayer-leverkusen","category-arsenal","category-bundesliga","category-champions-league","category-news","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-team-news","tag-leverkusen-team-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666815","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=666815"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666831,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666815\/revisions\/666831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}