{"id":669347,"date":"2026-04-29T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=669347"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:56:32","slug":"arsenal-vs-atletico-confirmed-lineups-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/04\/29\/arsenal-vs-atletico-confirmed-lineups-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Atletico Confirmed Lineups for April 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Arsenal vs Atletico confirmed lineups for the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semi-final tie. After PSG and Bayern Munich blew the doors down in their semi-final in a nine-goal thriller there is sure to be a system shock as this fixture sees two more pragmatic coaches go head to head in a stylistic matchup that could see physicality and defending be the key to getting through to the final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/04\/29\/atletico-madrid-vs-arsenal-team-news-predicted-lineups\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal : Team News and Predicted Lineups<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal vs Atletico Confirmed Lineups &amp; Team News<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 600px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBt9B8lQHR\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 6000px; aspect-ratio: 6000\/4000;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal Team News<\/h2>\n<p>Both sets of injury news will come from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofascore.com\/football\/match\/atletico-madrid-arsenal\/RsLgb\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SofaScore<\/a> injuries and suspension section for this clash.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta has some depth problems as Jurrien Timber is sidelined and leaves him short of a versatile option in the back line. Kai Havertz came off at the weekend and will miss this leg. Fellow attacking option Mikel Merino is also sidelined<\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Raya<\/li>\n<li>White<\/li>\n<li>Saliba<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel<\/li>\n<li>Hincapie<\/li>\n<li>Rice<\/li>\n<li>Zubimendi<\/li>\n<li>Odegaard<\/li>\n<li>Madueke<\/li>\n<li>Martinelli<\/li>\n<li>Gyokeres<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Subs:\u00a0<\/strong>Arrizabalaga, Setford, Mozquera, Saka, Jesus, Eze, Norgaard, Trossard, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman, Salmon<\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal UCL Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>David Raya<\/li>\n<li>Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/li>\n<li>Tommy Setford<\/li>\n<li>William Saliba<\/li>\n<li>Cristhian Mosquera<\/li>\n<li>Ben White<\/li>\n<li>Piero Hincapie<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel<\/li>\n<li>Jurrien Timber<\/li>\n<li>Riccardo Calafiori<\/li>\n<li>Marli Salmon<\/li>\n<li>Martin Odegaard<\/li>\n<li>Eberechi Eze<\/li>\n<li>Christian NOrgaard<\/li>\n<li>Leandro Trossard<\/li>\n<li>Noni Madueke<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Merino<\/li>\n<li>Kai Havertz<\/li>\n<li>Martin Zubimendi<\/li>\n<li>Declan Rice<\/li>\n<li>Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/li>\n<li>Max Dowman<\/li>\n<li>Andre Annous<\/li>\n<li>Ife Ibrahim<\/li>\n<li>Brando Bailey-Joseph<\/li>\n<li>Bukayo Saka<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Jesus<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Martinelli<\/li>\n<li>Viktor Gyokeres<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Atletico Madrid Team News<\/h2>\n<p>Simeone will be sweating over the fitness of attacker Ademola Lookman. The former Atalanta man has been a great addition for the team and could be a difference maker if he is fit to start, he is considered a doubt according to SofaScore.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Maria Gimenez, Nicolas Gonzalez, and Pablo Barrios are set to miss out.<\/p>\n<h3>Atletico Madrid Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Oblak<\/li>\n<li>Ruggeri<\/li>\n<li>Cardoso<\/li>\n<li>Koke<\/li>\n<li>Griezmann<\/li>\n<li>Llorente<\/li>\n<li>Hancko<\/li>\n<li>Pubill<\/li>\n<li>Alvarez<\/li>\n<li>Simeone<\/li>\n<li>Lookman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Subs:\u00a0<\/strong>Musso, Esquivel, Mendoza, Sorloth, Alex Baena, Almada, Lenglet, Molina, Vargas, le Normand, Bonar, Diaz<\/p>\n<h3>Atletico UCL Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Juan Musso<\/li>\n<li>Han Oblak<\/li>\n<li>Salvador Esquivel<\/li>\n<li>Mario De Luis<\/li>\n<li>Jose Maria Gimenez<\/li>\n<li>Matteo Ruggeri<\/li>\n<li>Clement Lenglet<\/li>\n<li>Nahuel Molina<\/li>\n<li>David Hancko<\/li>\n<li>Marc Pubill<\/li>\n<li>Robin Le Normand<\/li>\n<li>Rodrigo Mendoza<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Cardoso<\/li>\n<li>Koke<\/li>\n<li>Pabl Barrios<\/li>\n<li>Alex Baena<\/li>\n<li>Thiago Almada<\/li>\n<li>Marcos Llorente<\/li>\n<li>Antoine Griezmann<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Sorloth<\/li>\n<li>Julian Alvarez<\/li>\n<li>Giuliano Simeone<\/li>\n<li>Ademola Lookman<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Gonzalez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned for the Arsenal vs Atletico confirmed lineups for the UEFA Champions League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>(Credit Image: \u00a9 Irina R. 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After PSG and Bayern Munich blew the doors down in their semi-final in a nine-goal thriller there is sure to be a system shock as this fixture sees two more pragmatic coaches go head to head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":669348,"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=\"WmOB4Xm41Dd8\" style=\"width: 100%;max-width: 4109px;aspect-ratio: 4109\/2739\"><\/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":[378,8,31819,30,1831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","category-arsenal","category-atletico-madrid","category-news","category-starting-line-up"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669347","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669352,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669347\/revisions\/669352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}