Arsenal take on Atletico Madrid at the Metropolitano Stadium in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday night.
Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the game…
Atletico Madrid: Gimenez (doubt), Barrios (out), Lookman (doubt), Hancko (doubt)
Atletico Madrid (4-4-2): Oblak; Molina, Le Normand, Lenglet, Ruggeri; Simeone, Koke, Llorente, Lookman; Griezmann, Alvarez
Arsenal (4-3-3): Raya; Mosquera, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie; Odegaard, Zubimendi, Rice; Saka, Gyokeres, Trossard
Atletico returned to winning ways against Athletic Club on Saturday but had been in poor form prior to that, failing to win any of the previous four games. They have won just two of the last nine in all competitions but beat Spanish rivals Barcelona in the previous round to reach the semi-finals.
Arsenal beat Newcastle in their most recent outing but had failed to win any of the previous three before that, and have won only two of the last seven games.
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Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone: “[The Champions League means] what it means to any athlete – an enormous competition, at a club where we’ve never been able to win it yet, where we’ve reached four semi-finals over these 14 years I’ve been here,” Simeone told TNT Sports.
“You know what it costs, what it takes to stay in a privileged position like this.
“Now it’s about protecting that position, giving everything we have, and taking the match to a place where we think we can hurt Arsenal.”
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta: I don’t take it for granted because a very short time ago, this club had seven years without Champions League.
“So, in that very short period of time, what we have achieved is remarkable. We know the difficulty of it, we know how much we worked for this, so enjoy it, take the opportunity, embrace it, because it’s very tough to be here.”
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