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The defeat at home against Benfica (2-3) on November 27 disrupted the progress of Monaco which, without several key pieces, must now bring back a good result from London, against Arsenal, during the 6th day of the Champions League . After a flamboyant start to the competition and a prestigious victory against Barcelona (2-1) during the first day of the new C1 formula, Monaco squandered its credit in the last 10 minutes against Benficathe fault of the paws of Angel Di Maria and the Lisbon grinta.

At the start of this 6th day (out of 8), ASM's 11th place (10 points, goal difference of +5) is a sham. Over the last three days, Adi Hütter's men have three peaks to overcome. The first among the Gunners (10ᵉ, 10 points, +6), before coming up against two contenders for the Top 8: they will receive Aston Villa (3ᵉ, 13 pts) on January 21, and will travel to Milan to challenge theInter (4ᵉ, 13 pts) on January 29.

Undefeated at its stadium in the Premier League this season (five wins, two draws against Liverpool and Brighton), Arsenal also easily disposed of Paris-Saint-Germain (2-0), and Shakhtar Donetsk (1-0) in the League. champions.

The film of the meeting:

20h27 – The replacements of Arsenal FC: Neto, Setford, Tierney, Timber, Trossard, Jorginho, Havertz, Sterling, Monlouis, Nwaneri, Robinson, Heaven.

8.26pm – Arsenal FC lineup: Raya – Partey, Saliba, Kiwor, Lewis-Skelly – Ødegaard, Rice, Merino – Saka, Gabriel Jesus, Martinelli.

20h23 – Two absences should be noted in the London camp for this meeting: those of Tomiyasu and White, injured. The list is much longer on the ASM side since Mawissa and Singo are suspended while Zakaria, Coulibaly, Diatta, Balogun and Diop are injured.

20h19 – Monaco won their last away match in the Champions League, but have not recorded two consecutive away victories since 2014/2015. That season, ASM's second victory was already at Arsenal, following a 1-0 success at Bayer Leverkusen.

20h15 – Currently third in Ligue 1 McDonald's, 6 lengths behind PSG, the Monegasques are also having a good start to the European campaign. Although they lost against SL Benfica 2-3 two weeks ago, the Rocher players remain well placed and a positive result this Wednesday evening would necessarily be good news in the race for the top 8.

20h11 – Only Barcelona and Bayern Munich (7) have won more matches than Arsenal (6) at home in the Champions League since the start of last season. The Gunners are also those with the most clean sheets in their own stadium over this period (6, tied with Inter).

20h07 – At the start of the season, the Arsenal Gunners are in good shape! Third in the Premier League and in the mix in the Champions League, Mikel Arteta's men have not lost in a month. This evening, however, they will try to restart the machine in C1 to ideally place themselves in the race for the top 8.

20h04 – AS Monaco, eleventh in the league phase standings with 10 points, travels to England this Wednesday evening to face Arsenal, also tenth in the hierarchy with 10 points collected in the first five matches. A match on the sixth day of the 2024/2025 Champions League organized on the pitch of the Arsenal Stadium, the name given to the Emirates Stadium during European games.

8:00 p.m. – Good evening and welcome everyone to RTL.fr to follow live commentary on this Champions League match between Arsenal FC and AS Monaco FC.

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