2025-26 UEFA Champions League: League Phase – Arsenal vs Olympiacos

Arsenal seek to continue their winning start to the league phase against Olympiacos in 2025-26 UEFA Champions League. 

Victory would see Arsenal stay in the top eight, whilst Olympiacos can leapfrog the Gunners with victory and move into the top half of the table.

 

Team News

Arsenal have no fresh injury concerns to report following their comeback Premier League victory at Newcastle.

Piero Hincapie (groin), Noni Madueke, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus (all knee) remain sidelined.

Olympiacos will be without Remy Cabella and Yusuf Yazici who were both left out of their Champions League squad list.

Roman Yaremchuk (unspecified) and Lorenzo Scipioni (knee) are ruled out.

 

When is Kick-Off?

Arsenal host Olympiacos at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday 1 October at 8pm BST, live on TNT Sports 1 in the UK.

 

Stat Attack

• Arsenal have won two of their last five Champions League meetings against Olympiacos (W2, L3).
• Olympiacos have won one of four previous Champions League trips to Arsenal (W1, L3), with their sole win coming in a three-match winning run in their three recent trips to the Gunners in all competitions (W3).
• Ex Olympiacos forward, Youssef El-Arabi scored in their last two meetings against Arsenal (W1, L1), which came at Round of 16 stage in 2020-21 Europa League but Arsenal won 3-2 on aggregate.
• Arsenal kept clean sheets in their four league-phase home games last season (W4), in which they scored nine goals without conceding.
• Olympiacos have lost two of their last five European away games (W2, D1, L2).

 

Prediction

Two clinical set-piece moments proved the difference for Arsenal in a scrappy trip to Newcastle but they dominated much of the game amidst a sloppy final open-play touch at times, which will only give them confidence coming into this game given their strong performances at home this season.

Olympiacos though are unbeaten in their last three trips to the Emirates Stadium in all competitions, but their Champions League form is specifically pretty poor yet they can take confidence from the fact that they’re yet to lose this season in any competition with just four goals conceded.

Nevertheless I wouldn’t be surprised if this is another scrappy battle for Arsenal but with the confidence from that win at Newcastle, I expect them to get another win if can polish their end product.

Prediction: Arsenal 2-1 Olympiacos

Result: Arsenal 2-0 Olympiacos