Arsenal – Dinamo

Arsenal and Dinamo Zagreb will be involved in a do our die Champions League game at the Emirates, with the two sides currently tied for the last place in Group F.

The situation for Arsenal is simple. They need to defeat Dinamo Zagreb and hope Bayern beats Olympiakos. If these two things happen, Arsenal will go to Greece in the last round needing a two goal win in order to qualify for the knockout stages. The Gunners really blew it in this group, losing to both Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiakos, despite playing some excellent football domestically. Their run of form in England has ended however, as the Gunners have just one point in the last two rounds and are on the back of a 2-1 loss at West Brom. If we add the 1-5 defeat in Munich, there are already 3 winless matches for Arsenal and now they are starting their classic struggle with injuries, so the prospects are not the best.

Dinamo Zagreb was in a great position in this group before losing two close matches to Olympiakos via late goals. Before the double against Oly, the visitors were on an incredible run of 48 matches in which they lost only once, to Bayern Munich. However, Dinamo seems to have lost some form lately, they lost the two games against Olympiakos, also lost twice in the league and is on the back of two very unconvincing narrow wins against Istra and Koprivnica.

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Team news & lineups:

Arsenal is again having huge injury problems at this point of the season. Coquelin is the new name on the injury sheet, alongside Oxlade-Chamberlain, Walcott, Rosicky, Ospina, Arteta, Wilshere and Welbeck. Dinamo Zagreb will only miss Pivaric, while Ademi is questionable.

Arsenal: Cech – Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal – Ramsey, Cazorla – Sanchez, Ozil, Gibbs – Giroud

Dinamo Zagreb: Eduardo – Pinto, Sigali, Taravel, Musa – Machado, Antolic, Rog – Soudani, Fernandez, Pjaca

Listen, Arsenal might have struggled recently, but they actually played well this weekend against West Brom, being extremely unlikely and also missing a penalty. The Gunners will be as fired up as ever today, looking to end the run of winless games and being desperate to give themselves a chance for qualification.

Dinamo Zagreb did beat Arsenal in Croatia, but Wenger rested some players and the Gunners played more than 50 minutes with 10 men. It was a difficult travel to Croatia, it was a game that Arsenal did not treat seriously, but that will not happen again today. Even without a number of key players missing, Arsenal should be more than able to get a comfortable win at home, they are very solid this season and I reckon they are worth trusting in this kind of match. Dinamo has been less impressive than usual lately and I can not see them springing a surprise or even keeping the game within reach.

I expect a solid home performance from Arsenal, they should be able to control the game and get close to the kind of scoreline Bayern put against Zagreb earlier in the group, a 5-0 win. Pretty simple bet for me here – my tip is Arsenal to win with a 2,25 asian handicap. Prediction: Arsenal – Dinamo Zagreb 4-0.

Pick: Arsenal (-2,25 Asian Handicap)
Odds: 2.42 @ Sbobet
Stake: 8
Possible profit: 11.36
Event date: 24 November