Arsenal vs Bayern Munich Matchday Stats Preview

Arsenal have lost their last three games against FC Bayern München by the same 5-1 scoreline (all in the UEFA Champions League), which is their joint-biggest margin of defeat in European competition (four goals). The most recent meeting in March 2017 was also Arsenal’s heaviest defeat in any competition at the Emirates Stadium.

This is the fifth UEFA Champions League campaign in which Arsenal and FC Bayern München will meet in the knockout stages, with the German side progressing on all previous four occasions (2004-05, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2016-17 – all in the round of 16).

FC Bayern München have only lost one of their last six away games against English sides in the UEFA Champions League (W4 D1), with their only defeat in that run coming against Manchester City last season. In the three games played in London in the period (v Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea), the German side won all three by an aggregate score of 15-3.

This will be Arsenal’s first game in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League since 2009-10, when they lost 6-3 on aggregate against Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona. Indeed, the Gunners have only progressed from two of their seven quarter-final ties in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League to date.

FC Bayern München have lost their last two away games in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League (0-3 v Manchester City and 0-1 v Lazio); the last time they lost three in a row away from home in the knockout rounds was between April 2009 and April 2010 (defeats to Barcelona, Fiorentina and Manchester United).

Arsenal’s victory over FC Porto last time out ended a run of five straight home defeats in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League. The last time they won more than one home game in the knockout rounds in a single season in the competition was in 2008-09 (v Roma and Villarreal), when they went on to reach the semi-finals.

Bukayo Saka has been directly involved in seven goals in seven appearances in the UEFA Champions League this season (three goals, four assists), the most of any Arsenal player. The last player to register more combined goals and assists in a single campaign for the club was Alexis Sánchez in 2015-16 (eight – three goals, five assists).

FC Bayern München’s Harry Kane has scored 14 goals in 19 appearances against Arsenal; only netting more against Leicester (20) and Everton (16) in his professional career. Kane has also scored the joint-most goals by a visiting player at the Emirates Stadium (5), along with Diogo Jota and Jamie Vardy.

Among players remaining in this season’s competition, Kai Havertz has applied the most high intensity pressures in the UEFA Champions League this term (374). Indeed, he made the most of any player in the game in Arsenal’s second leg triumph over FC Porto in the round of 16 (70).

FC Bayern München are the team with the most completed dribbles (113) and the best dribble success rate (60%) in the UEFA Champions League this season. Indeed, no player remaining in the 2023-24