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 “Dinamo Zagreb”. The match will start at 22:00 Kyiv time.

Arsenal

The team noticeably added for Arteta. As a result, last season she finally returned to the Champions League, where she made it to 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 lost points there only with the Italians: they started with a 0:0 in Bergamo with Atalanta, then lost away to Inter. But in the rest of the 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 interesting 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 worth. 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 did not have significant problems in the domestic arena for a long time – it stamped titles. However, right now, the Croatian flagship went to the break in only third place, moreover, with a lag of 7 points from both Rijeka and Hajduk. So Cannavaro, who led the Blues at the end of last year, will have a difficult task. But at the same time, you need to cling to your chances in the Champions League. There, the capital club confidently won against Karabakh (3:0 and 2:0) in the qualification. It is noteworthy that in the main round the lion’s share of points were taken on the road, where they beat the outsiders, Red Bull Salzburg and Slovan Bratislava, although in September it was 2:9 with Bayern. 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 Croats twice. But in the fall of 2015, the clubs exchanged home victories.

Forecast

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