No doubt what the headliner fixture is this week, in the UEFA Champions League, FC Barcelona at Paris Saint-Germain. However, the main undercard, Arsenal FC at Bayern Munich, looks like a great match on paper as well. After all, it is matchup of the two reigning champions from the English Premier League and German Bundesliga. Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta obviously has a very strong side, and given that the injury situation is not severe, he has a lot of depth to work with. Therefore he can do some squad rotation, and still put a very good team out there. Noni Madueke, Mikel Merino, Jurrien Timber and Viktor Gyokeres all began yesterday’s 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest on the bench.
UEFA Champions League Matchday 3 of 8
Kickoff: Wed. Oct 21, 8pm
Venue: Allianz Arena, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
UCL Standing, Form: Arsenal 7th, 6 pts, WW Bayern Munich 10th, 04 pts, WD
Preview Material for Both Sides: Team News Predicted Starting XIs
Most, if not all, of that quartet could come into the first team for this one. And maybe we even a couple/few changes beyond that.
Arsenal Predicted Starting XI at Bayern Munich
David Raya; Jurrien Timber, Ezri Konsa, Gabriel Magalhaes, Myles Lewis-Skelly; Declan Rice, Mikel Merino; Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Noni Madueke; Viktor Gyokeres
And as an added bonus, as a thank you for your clicking here to read this, we threw in the Bayern Munich predicted starting XI as well. Free of charge of course!
Bayern Munich Predicted Starting XI vs Arsenal
Manuel Neuer; Konrad Laimer, Dayot Upamecano, Jonathan Tah, Alphonso Davies; Aleksandr Pavlovic, Joshua Kimmich; Lennart Karl, Saibari, Brahim Diaz; Harry Kane
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