📏 Form Guide

Bayern Munich

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Bayern Munich will be looking for a repeat result of a 2-0 Bundesliga 1 victory against Cologne.

In that match, Bayern Munich had 69% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Bayern Munich, the goals were scored by Raphaël Guerreiro (65') and Thomas Müller (93'). At the other end, Cologne got 11 attempts at goal with 5 on target.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Bayern Munich haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Bayern Munich have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 10 goals along the way. Let’s find out if that trend can be sustained here.

Arsenal

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Aston Villa in Premier League competition, Arsenal and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Arsenal had 51% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. At the other end, Aston Villa had 11 shots on goal with 2 on target. Leon Bailey (84') and Ollie Watkins (87') scored for Aston Villa.

A sequence of reliable performances from the Arsenal defensive players has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 3 from their previous 6 clashes overall. Over that same period, their forwards have scored 10.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings dating back to 11/03/2014 tells us that Bayern Munich have won 3 of these & Arsenal 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 26 in total at an average of 4.33 goals per meeting.

🗞️ Team News: Bayern Munich

Kingsley Coman (Adductor injury), Serge Gnabry (Torn muscle fiber), Sacha Boey (Torn muscle bundle), Bouna Sarr (Cruciate ligament tear) and Tarek Buchmann (Torn muscle bundle) will not be taking part for Bayern Munich manager Thomas Tuchel. Alphonso Davies will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

It looks as if Bayern will probably employ a 4-2-3-1 system for the game with Manuel Neuer, Joshua Kimmich, Matthijs de Ligt, Eric Dier, Noussair Mazraoui, Leon Goretzka, Konrad Laimer, Leroy Sane, Thomas Mueller, Jamal Musiala and Harry Kane.

📰 Team News: Arsenal

Out of a mainly full-strength group, there’s only a single fitness problem for the Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta to be concerned with. Jurrien Timber (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be in action.

We are inclined to think that The Gunners will likely play in a 4-3-3 lineup with a starting lineup of David Raya, Ben White, William Saliba, Gabriel, Jakub Kiwior, Kai Havertz, Jorginho, Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Martinelli.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Arsenal and Bayern Munich could well both score and end up finding themselves in a fairly even game here.

It could well end in a draw. We’re therefore tipping a very close game with a 1-1 score at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 18:02 17/04/2024