Girona vs Arsenal LIVE: Champions League updates, latest team news, lineups, TV, prediction
Girona vs Arsenal LIVE: Champions League updates, latest team news, lineups, TV, prediction
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Arsenal take on Girona in the Champions League tonight. It is the Gunners’ final game of the new-look league phase, with their automatic progress through to the last 16 without the need for a two-legged knockout play-off tie all but secured ahead of this evening’s visit to Catalonia.
Mikel Arteta’s side currently sit third after winning five and losing just one of their seven matches so far and it would take an extraordinary sequence of events to knock them out of the top eight due to their superior goal difference and rival teams going head to head. Arsenal could even end up second behind Liverpool if they win and Barcelona lose at home to Atalanta, though for Girona - owned by the City Football Group - there is no chance to even snatch a play-off spot with just one win to date in their maiden Champions League campaign leaving them 31st on just three points.
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Arteta may have been tempted to heavily rotate his team tonight with Manchester City and Newcastle to come, but he is keen to generate some momentum with another win in Europe worth as much as £12million. Follow Girona vs Arsenal live below, with expert analysis from Standard Sport’s Simon Collings at the Estadi Montilivi.
Girona are without five key players as they look to close a disappointing maiden Champions League stint with only a second win and first since they saw off Slovakian side Slovan Bratislava 2-0 in Spain back in October. Tottenham loanee Bryan Gil is suspended after picking up his third yellow card of the league phase in the 1-0 defeat at AC Milan last week, while ex-Spurs goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga and former Manchester United defender Daley Blind are both injured.
