PSV vs Arsenal Matchday Stats Preview
Arsenal are unbeaten in their five home matches in European competitions against PSV (W3 D2), the most home games they've played against an opponent in European competition without ever losing. Away from home, however, they’re winless in their last four against the Dutch side (D2 L2), with their only win away to them coming in September 2002 (4-0 in the UEFA Champions League).
This will be the second time Arsenal have faced PSV in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League, after being eliminated by the Dutch side in the Last 16 in 2006-07 (lost 0-1 away, drew 1-1 at home).
Arsenal have only lost one of their last 14 games against Dutch sides in the UEFA Champions League (0-1 v PSV in 2007), although more than half of those matches have ended level (W5 D8 L1).
Arsenal have faced Peter Bosz's PSV side twice previously in the UEFA Champions League, beating them 4-0 at the Emirates and drawing 1-1 away in the 2023-24 group stage.
Arsenal have won each of their last four games in the UEFA Champions League, scoring 13 goals and only conceding twice in the process. The last time they had a five-game win streak in a single edition was in 2005-06 (5), which was when they registered their best ever finish in the competition (runners-up).
Arsenal have been ahead on the scoreboard for 57% of their minutes played in the UEFA Champions League this season; the highest percentage of any side. Meanwhile, Mikel Arteta’s side have trailed for just 65 of their 770 minutes of match time in the competition this term (8%).
PSV have allowed just nine opposition passes per defensive action in the UEFA Champions League this season; the second-fewest of any team, behind only Bayern Munich (8.2). Meanwhile, only Paris SG (30) have produced more shots following high turnovers than Peter Bosz’s side (25) in the competition this term.
Arsenal have the lowest xG against per game average (0.73) in the UEFA Champions League this season, as well as allowing the fewest shots on target against (2.4). They’ve kept a clean sheet in 63% of their games in the competition this term (5/8), only once doing so in a higher percentage of their games in a single edition (77% - 10/13 in 2005-06).
Ethan Nwaneri could become the second-youngest Arsenal player to appear in a UEFA Champions League knockout stage game (17y 348d on the day of this game), after Cesc FÃ bregas v Bayern Munich in March 2005 (17y 309d). He could also become just the third English player to start in a knockout stage game in the competition while under 18, after Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden.
PSV’s Luuk de Jong could make his 50th UEFA Champions League appearance in this game (currently on 49). He’d be just the fifth Dutch striker to reach this milestone in the competition, after Ruud van Nistelrooij (73), Patrick Kluivert (71), Roy Makaay (61) and Robin van Persie (59).
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