Alignments confirmed as Dembele on the bench for heavy weight hosts

Arsenal’s hopes to make a second comeback to reach the Champions League final have been delivered with a story that Paris Saint-Germain’s highest scorer this season, Ousmane Dembele, is only suitable enough to make the bench.

Dembele has struggled with a rope injury suffered in the first stage and had a doubt to start the Crunch game in Paris, where the Gunners will seek a memorable performance to annul a 1-0 deficit from last week.

PSG’s slender lead means that they keep their hand higher than the tie and will be the firm favorites to move forward to face Inter Milan in the final in Munich.

Continue reading to see how the two teams align for this match that defines the season.

PSG Team News

The big news of the hosts camp is that last week’s game winner, Dembele, is only suitable enough to make the bench.

PSG’s top scorer this season had been doubtful to make the starting team after being forced after 70 minutes in North London with an injury in an hamstrock. Bradley Barcola enters through her compatriot.

Luis Enrique sounded the changes over the weekend when League 1 champions fell to the 2-1 defeat against Strasbourg 2-1, with only the midfielder Joao Neves not rested on the team who started against the Gunners in the Emirates.

And, with the exception of Dembele, the Spanish coach names an unaltered side of the trip through the channel.

PSG: Donnarumma; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Mendes, Vitinha, Ruiz, Neves, Doue, Kvaratskhelia, Boat

Sub: Safonov, Tenas, Ramos, Dember, Lee, Hernandez, Mayulu, Zaire-Mere, Beraldo, Tape, Mbaye

📄 Parisian XI!#Psgars I #UCL pic.twitter.com/b1pbca6tpe

-Paris Saint-Germain (@psg_engish) May 7 2025

News of the Arsenal team

Arteta two changes from the initial 11th, which lost to Bournemouth to the Premier League on Saturday, reinstating Mikel Merino and Jurien Timber after he stayed out of the contest with injuries.

Thomas Partey, who lost the game due to the suspension, but returns to the partner Declan Rice in the heart of the Gunners’ midfield.

Leandro Trossard falls on the bench, leaving Merino to drive the line in attack.

Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Kiwisor, Lewist-Skelly, Patey, Rice, Rice, Shore, Martinelli, Merino, Merino.

Sub: Neto, Setford, White, Cafaori, Tierney, Zinhenko, Jorginho, Henry-Francis, Anderer-Oyedeji, Trossard, Sterling.

🔴 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠𝙉𝙀𝙒𝙎 ⚪️

🔙 Wooden returns
⚡️ Saka on the wing
🎩 Merino leads the line

Let’s do this, Gunners 👊

– Arsenal (@arsenal) May 7 2025