🕟 Kick Off: 20:00 GMT

📍 Location: Emirates Stadium, North London

📺 UK Broadcaster: TNT Sports

🙎🏻‍♂️ Referee: Daniel Siebert 🇩🇪

🔴 Arsenal Team News:

• Saliba has a hamstring issue and will likely be out for two weeks.
• Ben White (knee) is recovering from surgery and is nearing his return.
• Calafiori and Nwaneri have both returned to training.
• Jesus has torn his ACL and will be out for up to a year.
• Saka (hamstring) is recovering from surgery and will be out for the next few months.
• Tomiyasu (knee) is an enigma and we haven’t received an update on him for weeks.

⚽ Arsenal Form: 🟧🟩🟧🟥🟧

🇭🇷 Dinamo Zagreb Team News:

• Kevin Theophile-Catherine is set to miss the game through injury.
• Petar Sucic (foot) and Bruno Petkovic (muscular) will miss the game.

⚽ Dinamo Zagreb Form: 🟩🟥🟧🟧🟥

⚔️ Head-to-Head:

• Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb (24th Nov 2015, UCL Group Stage)
• Dinamo Zagreb 2-1 Arsenal (16th Sept 2015, UCL Group Stage)
• Arsenal 2-1 Dinamo Zagreb (23rd Aug 2006, UCL Qualifier 3rd round)
• Dinamo Zagreb 0-3 Arsenal (8th Aug 2006, UCL Qualifier 3rd round)

📖 Match Facts:

• Dinamo Zagreb haven’t played a match of football since the 22nd of December 2024.
• This game is Fabio Cannavaro’s first game in charge of Dinamo Zagreb.
• A victory for Arsenal would see them qualify for the knockouts.
• Dinamo Zagreb have never beaten an Arsenal side which finished the game with 11 men. The victory over Arsenal in 2015 was in a game in which Olivier Giroud was sent off in the first half.

🎲 Odds (Betway):

• Arsenal – 1/9
• Draw – 8/1
• Dinamo Zagreb – 20/1

✍🏼 Pre-Match Ramblings

This isn’t the F5 you’re hoping for, I know, but it has to be done…

We face Dinamo Zagreb in our penultimate UCL League Stage match at home on Wednesday in a winnable game that can hopefully restore some positivity around the club. A game like this, however, is going to be where our lack of squad depth really hits us. How far should Arteta go with rotation?

For me, I would quite like to see players like Kiwior, Zinchenko, and KT come in. Tierney could be one to deploy at LW to give one of our four attackers a rest. He is more than capable of playing there against Dinamo Zagreb.

Dinamo Zagreb haven’t played a competitive game of football in a month due to a winter break in the Croatian Football League. They have also got a new coach, and this will be his first game with the club. They currently sit in 3rd place, 7 points behind league leaders, which is pretty poor for a club that has won the league 25 times.

A victory here would see Arsenal through to the knockouts with one game to spare. However, finishing in the Top 8 will be hugely important to Mikel Arteta. With the current state of our squad, we need as much rest as we can get. We ideally need at least 4 points from our remaining games against Zagreb and Girona. Should be doable, right? We’ll see.