Arsenal Women vs Lyon: How to watch on TV, Live Stream, latest team news, predicted XI and much more 

How to watch Arsenal Women's Champions League semi-final clash vs Lyon at Emirates Stadium on Easter Saturday

Prologue 

What a rollcoaster season it has been for Arsenal Women. 

From the malestrom of anguish under the unpopular and underwhelming Jonas Eidevall, culminating in Champions League humilation in Bavaria with *that* 5-2 shellacking by Bayern Munich Women, which precipitated the fall of the underperforming Swede, following a disappointing home defeat at the hands of London rivals Chelsea back in October. 

Up steeped Eidevall's unsung No2 Renee Slegers,initially as interim boss. The former Dutch midfielder steadied the ship in her calm manner, which saw the team rally to win 11 matches out of 12 - form which saw the club appoint the 36-year-old as permanent boss after the winter break. 

Since then the team have continued to make progress, not least in the Champions League, where, despite a 2-0 defeat on a disgracefully sodden pitch in Madrid that was most definitely not the Bernabeu, the Gunners showed their class by overwhelming their Spanish visitors 3-0 in the second leg in front of an atmospheric Emirates last month. 

Which brings us to Saturday's crucial clash again Lyon, which, despite lifting two League Cups during his tenure, saw arguably Eidevall's finest result, when routing the perennial Champions League winners 5-1 in France in the group stages two seasons ago. 

As for Lyon's boss Joe Montemurro, the popular Australian will be back at his former club, where he is still the last Arsenal manager to win the WSL title, back in 2019. 

It promises to be some contest. 

Women's Champions League semi-finals

Arsenal v Lyon (12:30pm) TNT Sports / discovery+ / DAZN

How to watch

In the UK, the game will be available to watch live on TNT Sports and DAZN.

What the managers say

Renée Slegers, Arsenal coach:

"I think they are very strong opposition. Huge respect for them as a team and individual players and the coach, of course, as well, Joe Montemurro, so we know it’s going to be a very big challenge, but we look forward to it. We want to embrace the challenge

Joe Montemurro, Lyon coach: "[Arsenal] deserve to be at the top end of this great competition. Their supporter base and the way they’ve elevated women’s football not only in the UK, but I think also in Europe, has been quite special from that perspective. We expect it to be an amazing atmosphere, an atmosphere which will, obviously, be pro-Arsenal. And that’s where we will just have to focus on our football, not focus on the other bits and pieces. If Lyon shows up and have a football approach and focus on the moment on the pitch, I think we’ll put in a good show

Form guide 

Arsenal

Slegers' win ratio - 86.6 per cent - is the highest of any Arsenal head coach to have taken charge of 10-plus WSL games.

AWFC have won each of their last eight games in all competitions by an aggregate score of 31-2 at the Emirates. No WSL team has won more points (24) or found the net more times (34) this calendar year.

Last six: WWWWLW

Last match: Arsenal 5-1 Leicester City, 15/04, Women's Super League

League position: 2nd in Women's Super League

Lyon

Last six: DWWWWW

Last match: Lyon 2-2 Paris FC, 12/04, Première Ligue

League position: 1st in Première Ligue

Predicted starting XI 

Arsenal: Zinsberger; Fox, Williamson, Catley, McCabe; Little, Maanum, Mariona; Mead, Russo, Foord

Lyon: Endler; Carpenter, Gilles, Renard, Bacha; Marozsán, Heaps, Egurrola; Diani, Dumornay, Chawinga