Arsenal – Dinamo Zagreb. Forecast and announcement for the Champions League match

On January 22, the match of the 7th round of the Champions League will be held at the Emirates, in which Arsenal will meet with Dynamo Zagreb. The match will start at 22:00 Kyiv time.

Arsenal

The team has noticeably improved under Arteta. As a result, last season she finally returned to the Champions League, where she qualified for the playoffs from first place in the group. But at the same time, the gunners did not slow down in the domestic arena, finishing in second place. Now the red and whites are also doing quite well in the international arena. They only lost points there against the Italians: they started with a 0:0 draw in Bergamo with Atalanta, then lost away to Inter. But in other matches there were only victories – with PSG, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting Lisbon and Monaco. Thus, the English have already guaranteed themselves a place in the playoffs. It is curious what Arteta and his staff will choose: it is possible to save energy, because there was a clear decline in the domestic arena in the winter – what are cup defeats? Or, on the contrary, you want to compensate for the decline there with a bright result in the Champions League.

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Dinamo Zagreb

The club has not had obvious problems in the domestic arena for a long time – it stamped titles. True, just now, the Croatian flagship went to the break only in third, and with a gap of 7 points at once from Rijeka and from Hajduk. So Cannavaro, who led the Blues at the end of last year, will have a difficult task. But at the same time, it is necessary to cling to your chances in the Champions League. There, the capital club confidently won against Karabakh in the qualification (3:0 and 2:0). It is noteworthy that in the main round the lion’s share of the points were taken on the road, where they defeated the outsiders, Red Bull Salzburg and Slovan Bratislava, although in September it was 2:9 with Bavaria. At home, the Croats limited themselves to draws with Monaco (2:2) and Celtic (0:0), but lost 0:3 to Borussia Dortmund.

Statistics of personal meetings

In 2006, the English beat the Croatians twice. But in the fall of 2015, the clubs exchanged home victories.

Forecast

Bookmakers do not expect that the blue ones, who have no real practice in the middle of winter, will show something. They are weak against giants, so we bet on the hosts with a handicap of -2 goals (coefficient – 1.64).