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Team news: Five changes for London derby

Renée Slegers has made five changes to the starting line-up for today’s Barclays Women’s Super League clash with Chelsea.

Following our 1-0 defeat to Manchester United in Wednesday’s Subway Women’s League Cup semi-final, the players coming into the side are Emily Fox, Steph Catley, Kim Little, Beth Mead and Stina Blackstenius.

They replace Taylor Hinds, Laia Codina, Victoria Pelova, Olivia Smith (who is suspended), and Frida Maanum, who has not been included in the squad after feeling unwell.

Kick-off is at 12.30pm at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea XI: Hampton, Carpenter, Bright (C), Girma, Bronze, Baltimore, Cuthbert, Kaptein, Reiten, Thompson, Kerr

Spencer, Peng, Buurman, Nusken, James, Kaneryd, Walsh, Potter, Beever-Jones

Arsenal XI: Borbe, Fox, Wubben-Moy, Catley, McCabe, Little (C), Mariona, Russo, Mead, Foord, Blackstenius

Substitutes: Van Domselaar, Williams, Codina, Pelova, Hinds, Holmberg, Harwood

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