{"id":667804,"date":"2026-04-04T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=667804"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:04:28","slug":"southampton-arsenal-team-news-confirmed-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/04\/04\/southampton-arsenal-team-news-confirmed-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton vs Arsenal: Team News and Confirmed Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Southampton<\/span><\/a> vs Arsenal in the FA Cup quarter-final at St Mary\u2019s. Arsenal<\/span><\/a> will be eager to bounce back to winning ways after losing to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final. Southampton are in good form, with four wins and a draw in their last five league games. In the previous round of the cup, the Saints upset Fulham, winning 1-0 through a last-minute penalty from Ross Stewart.<\/p>\n

Southampton vs Arsenal, Team News and Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n

Southampton Team News<\/h3>\n

Southampton head coach Tonda Eckert<\/span><\/a> spoke about the importance of embracing the pressures of the game:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“All of the pressure is on us, and it needs to be. I think if you want to win a game of football, the pressure is always on you. It’s for us to take that as it comes and make sure we play a good game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eckert will be without the suspended duo Flynn Downes and Kuryu Matsuki. Leo Scienza and Ross Stewart are back in training, while Jack Stephens’ situation is improving \u201cevery day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

In his pre-match press conference<\/span><\/a>, Mikel Arteta discussed Noni Madueke\u2019s injury and its severity:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, it\u2019s not. It looked really bad, and Noni was really worried, especially after what happened to him in his other knee a few weeks ago, and he was out for six weeks. But no, he\u2019s nowhere near that injury, so that was really good news.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if he would be missing for only days, Arteta said: \u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Discussing Eberechi Eze\u2019s availability, Arteta said: \u201cEbz is out; with Ebz I cannot put a finger on it because I don\u2019t know, because he\u2019s a special character.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are in contention to possibly be in the squad,\u201d Arteta added regarding the availability of Martin Zubimendi and Jurrien Timber.<\/p>\n

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Southampton Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Starting XI:<\/strong> Peretz, Bree, Harwood-Bellis, Wood, Manning, Bragg, Jander, Fellows, Azaz, Scienza, Stewart<\/p>\n

Subs:<\/strong> Long, Quarshie, Romeu, Charles, Edozie, Robinson, Archer, Oyekunle, Larin<\/p>\n

Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Starting XI:<\/strong> Arrizabalaga, White, Mosquera, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Norgaard, Odegaard, Havertz, Dowman, Martinelli, Jesus<\/p>\n

Subs:<\/strong> Raya, Saliba, Gyokeres, Madueke, Calafiori, Zubimendi, Harriman-Annous, O’Neill, Salmon<\/p>\n

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Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Southampton vs Arsenal in the FA Cup quarter-final at St Mary\u2019s. Arsenal will be eager to bounce back to winning ways after losing to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final. Southampton are in good form, with four wins and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":647159,"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":[3,8,8432,30,20],"tags":[32547,32828],"class_list":["post-667804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-fa-cup","category-news","category-southampton","tag-arsenal-team-news","tag-southampton-team-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667804","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=667804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667867,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667804\/revisions\/667867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}