{"id":668229,"date":"2026-04-11T05:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=668229"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:19:23","slug":"arsenal-vs-bournemouth-team-news-confirmed-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/04\/11\/arsenal-vs-bournemouth-team-news-confirmed-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Bournemouth: Team News and Confirmed Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Bournemouth at the <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Arsenal\/status\/2042845097734414438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Emirates<\/span><\/a>. The Gunners will be eager to follow up on their vital 1-0 win in the Champions League against CP Sporting. It\u2019s gut-check time for Mikel Arteta\u2019s team. Every game is a must-win for the North London club. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/04\/11\/arsenal-vs-bournemouth-team-news-predicted-lineups\/\" target=\"_self\"><span>Bournemouth<\/span><\/a> have produced some impressive performances this season, but are the league\u2019s draw specialists, with an astonishing 15 this season.<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal vs Bournemouth, Team News and Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n<h3>Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>During his <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/every-word-artetas-pre-bournemouth-presser-0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>pre-match press conference<\/span><\/a>, Mikel Arteta confirmed he will have some players back from injury, but would not be drawn on individual availability and just said: \u201cYes, there have been changes since yesterday.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Arteta also discussed the availability of Eberechi Eze and said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is available. He has [been ahead of schedule], my first conversation with him after he felt a niggle, he wanted to be available the next week, we knew that was impossible. But the recovery, the will that he&#8217;s shown from day one to get back as quickly as possible, how he&#8217;s pushed the medical staff and himself to be there tomorrow, it&#8217;s just great to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arteta was also asked if Piero Hincapie was still missing, and the Gunners boss said: \u201cThere will be changes tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/04\/best-arsenal-players-number-14-jersey\/\" target=\"_self\"><span>Best Arsenal Players to Wear the Number 14 Jersey Ever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Bournemouth Team News<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>During his press conference before the trip to Arsenal, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp8d40755p7o\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Andoni Iraola<\/span><\/a> revealed Junior Kroupi and Alex Jimenez returned from the international break with niggles, but both are &#8220;fully recovered and ready to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also confirmed \u00a0Lewis Cook and Justin Kluivert remain out, but Iraola did confirm his squad is &#8220;in a good place&#8221; going into the final few games of the season. It was also confirmed that Julio Soler is in first-team training, but he isn&#8217;t ready &#8220;to play a lot of minutes.&#8221; Tyler Adams and Ben Gannon-Doak are also nearing a return.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong><span>: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/26\/the-greatest-footballers-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_self\">The Greatest Footballers of All Time: Part Two, 1918-1939<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 600px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOB5vatYT1q\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 1974px; aspect-ratio: 1974\/1316;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Starting XI<\/strong>: Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly; Zubimendi, Rice; Havertz, Madueke, Martinelli; Gyokeres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><strong>Subs<\/strong>: Arrizabalaga, Mosquera, Salmon, Hincapie, Norgaard, Eze, Dowman, Trossard, Jesus.<\/p>\n<h3>Bournemouth Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><strong>Starting XI<\/strong>: Petrovic; Truffert, Senesi, Hill, Jim\u00e9nez; Scott, Kroupi Jr; Rayan, Christie, Tavernier; Evanilson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><strong>Subs<\/strong>: Mandas, Brooks, Gannon-Doak, Adams, Smith, Diakit\u00e9, Adli, Enes \u00dcnal, T\u00f3th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><span>SmartFrame &#8211; Zuma Press<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Bournemouth at the Emirates. The Gunners will be eager to follow up on their vital 1-0 win in the Champions League against CP Sporting. It\u2019s gut-check time for Mikel Arteta\u2019s team. Every game is a must-win for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":668232,"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 customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBOWITmTgZ\" style=\"width: 100%;max-width: 4022px;aspect-ratio: 4022\/2676\"><\/smartframe-embed><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support -->","_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":[30,8,9,3,1831],"tags":[32547,32701],"class_list":["post-668229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-bournemouth","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-team-news","tag-bournemouth-team-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668229","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=668229"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668273,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668229\/revisions\/668273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}