{"id":669439,"date":"2026-05-02T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=669439"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:18:14","slug":"arsenal-vs-fulham-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/02\/arsenal-vs-fulham-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Fulham: Team News and Confirmed Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Fulham<\/span><\/a> at the Emirates. Mikel Arteta\u2019s team will be desperate for three points, with Manchester City not in action until Monday. Fulham will be eager to back up their impressive 1-0 win against Aston Villa last time out. This is undoubtedly a huge weekend in the title race.<\/p>\n

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

Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

During the pre-match press conference<\/span><\/a>, Gunners boss Mikel Arteta discussed how his squad were feeling after the tough game against Atletico Madrid, and if they were ok for the Fulham game:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think so, so let\u2019s see how everybody is tomorrow morning. Obviously, we haven\u2019t been able to train much, so tomorrow we\u2019ll have the final update,\u201d said Arteta.<\/p>\n

When asked about the availability of Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber, Arteta said: \u201cYes, Kai and Jurrien will be out.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about the availability of Martin Odegaard, Arteta was less forthcoming, \u201cLet\u2019s see,\u201d was as far as the Gunners boss would go.<\/p>\n

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Fulham Team News<\/h3>\n

Marco Silva will have to do without Ryan Sessegnon<\/span><\/a>, who \u00a0scored the winner against Aston Villa last time out. Alex Iwobi and Kevin will also be missing through injury, but the Fulham boss will be hoping that Kenny Tete could be available after missing the last four games with a foot problem.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Starting XI:<\/strong> Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Rice, Lewis-Skelly, Eze, Saka, Trossard, Gyokeres<\/p>\n

Substitutes:<\/strong> Arrizabalaga, Mosquera, Hincapie, Jesus, Martinelli, Norgaard, Madueke, Zubimendi, Dowman<\/p>\n

Fulham Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Starting XI:<\/strong> Leno, Castagne, Andersen (C), Bassey, Robinson, Reed, Luki\u0107, Wilson, Smith Rowe, Chukwueze, Ra\u00fal<\/p>\n

Substitutes:<\/strong> Lecomte, Tete, Diop, Cuenca, Cairney, King, Bobb, Kusi-Asare, Muniz<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

SmartFrame – Zuma Press<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Fulham at the Emirates. Mikel Arteta\u2019s team will be desperate for three points, with Manchester City not in action until Monday. Fulham will be eager to back up their impressive 1-0 win against Aston Villa last time out. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":669440,"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":[8,2511,30,3,1831],"tags":[32547,32631],"class_list":["post-669439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-fulham","category-news","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-team-news","tag-fulham-team-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669439","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=669439"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669451,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669439\/revisions\/669451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}