Slavia Prague vs Arsenal: Team news and line-ups as visitors without Gyokeres for tricky Champions League trip

Gabriel Martinelli has scored in all three of Arsenal’s Champions League matches in 2025-26.

The only Gunners player to score in their first four matches in a major European campaign was Ian Wright in the 1994-95 Cup Winners’ Cup (scored in first eight).

2017 of the minutes Slavia Prague have awarded to players in the Champions League this season have been for Czechia players.

That is the third most a team has given to players of their own affiliation, behind Athletic Club (2717 to Spanish players) and Bodo/Glimt (2403 to Norwegian players).

Only Bayern Munich (1.37) have faced a lower xG in Champions League games this season than Arsenal (1.51), while the Gunners have faced the joint fewest shots on target (6, level with Man City).

Slavia Prague are one of four sides who didn’t score in the previous two fixtures of this season’s Champions League.

The Czechia side accumulated the lowest xG of any side (0.84), while their shots had the lowest xG per shot value (0.04).

Arsenal have won their first three Champions League matches this season without conceding a goal, one of two sides to do this, along with Internazionale.

The Gunners are looking to win their opening four games of a season for the first time since 2005-06, while the only English team in European Cup history to win their first four matches of a season without conceding were Leeds United in 1969-70.

Slavia Prague are winless in their last 14 Champions League matches (six draws, eight defeats) since winning their first game in the competition in September 2007 against FCSB.

It’s the longest current run of any of the 36 sides in this season’s competition, and the joint longest run by a Czechia side – Sparta Prague also went 14 without a win between February 2004 and December 2005.

Arteta wants to avoid his side having two games in three days, after the EFL announced on Monday that the Gunners’ Carabao Cup quarter-final against Crystal Palace had been moved.

Slavia Prague have only won one of their eight home games against English teams in European competition (two draws, five defeats), going winless in seven since beating Leeds United in March 2000 in the Uefa Cup (2-1).

After scoring twice in that game versus Leeds, they only netted one goal across the following seven.

Slavia Prague are winless in their four meetings with Arsenal (two draws, two defeats.

They’ve only facing Anderlecht (5) more times in European competition without managing a victory.