Arsenal V Bayern Munich: Champions League – Live

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Speaking of Eze v Olise, who tin hide nan celebrated array tennis and chess matches (both won by Olise) of 2023?!

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At 4/1 and 5/1 respectively, Arsenal and Bayern Munich are nan favourites to triumph this season’s Champions League outright, and it’s not really a surprise. Both are apical of their home leagues by six points. Both clasp a 100% grounds successful Europe going into this lucifer – travel nan extremity of it, that evidently won’t beryllium nan case.

Arsenal head Mikel Arteta and his Bayern counterpart, Vincent Kompany, person spent nan build up to this 1 talking up their opponents. Arteta believes nan Gunners remain successful a “different universe” to Bayern fixed they person yet to triumph nan Champions League, while Kompany declare nan Londoners are nan “most difficult task” nan German broadside could beryllium … um … tasked with. “[Arsenal] play pinch awesome physicality,” added nan Bayern boss.

It’s existent we would person ne'er gotten this lucifer successful nan aged Champions League format, but fixed nan comparative deficiency of jeopardy successful nan convention phase, this lucifer does not transportation nan weight of erstwhile knockout encounters betwixt nan two. The 2 sides met past twelvemonth successful a adjacent two-legged quarter-final, pinch a 2-2 draw astatine nan Emirates followed by a 1-0 triumph for Bayern successful Bavaria. Before that, you’d person to spell backmost to 2017 and nan past knockings of nan Arsène Wenger era. Neither group of fans person forgotten nan 10-2 aggregate shellacking served by Bayern, 2 5-1 pastings, home and away.

That’s a batch of history that astir apt doesn’t mean excessively overmuch to nan caller players uninitiated successful this fixture. Two of those are Bayern’s Michael Olise and Arsenal’s Eberechi Eze – nan erstwhile Crystal Palace pals reuniting connected nine football’s biggest shape and some travel into this lucifer successful sparkling form: Olise bagged 2 goals and provided 3 assists successful Bayern’s 6-2 triumph complete Freiburg connected Saturday, while Eze netted a hat-trick for nan Gunners successful nan northbound London derby. Not bad for a mates of lads that utilized to hack it astir successful nan Championship.

This is simply a mouthwatering match. You don’t want to miss it.

Kick-off: 8pm GMT.