Arsenal will travel to Holland to face the Dutch giants PSV in the knockout stages of the UEFA champions league on Tuesday night.
Arsenal will be without a number of key players again for this game tonight and should find it difficult scoring too many goals
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It has been a tough two weeks for the Gunners, who have seen their Premier League title hopes again seemingly go up in smoke after frustrating dropped points, this time against West Ham and Nottingham Forest, as Liverpool moved 13 points clear at the top of the table.
It leaves the Champions League as effectively Arsenal’s only hope of ending the season with some silverware, though it is a daunting task lying in wait.
PSV vs Arsenal prediction
It is difficult to see where the Arsenal goals are going to come from.
They remain a threat from set-pieces but the Gunners have been largely unthreatening in open play in recent weeks and it means they are unlikely to enjoy too many comfortable nights.
When PSV Eindhoven was winless after the first three matches of the ongoing UCL campaign, nobody could have predicted that they would be within touching distance of a quarter-final spot in Europe’s premier competition.
But, Robert van der Wallen’s 3-2 win against 1st-ranked Liverpool helped them finish 14th in the league stage and they followed it up by winning 4-3 on aggregate against Juventus knocking the Italian giants out of the tournament.
The last time PSV qualified for the UEFA Champions League quarter-final stage was during the 2006-07 season when they knocked out Arsenal from the Round of 16 before Liverpool eliminated them from the competition
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Mikel Arteta’s men conceded only 3 goals in the league phase, the second-best defensive record after Inter, which paved their way to the Round of 16 as the Gunners finished third on the league standings.
Currently, the North London-based club is going through an injury crisis with Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli, and Kai Havertz out of contention as Arteta would have to depend on a makeshift forward line to hurt PSV Eindhoven whom they beat as well.
The Gunners have a tricky fixture list ahead with Manchester United and Chelsea the oppositions in the Premier League apart from the two legs against PSV before the international break. Arsenal slipped up at the quarter-final stage last season against Bayern Munich and would like to reach the quarter-finals yet again but it would require a massive effort from Arteta’s men to pull off the same.
