The Gunners, playing their best football in many years, need only a draw tonight when they play against Napoli in order to progress to the knock-out stages of the Champions League.
Can Olivier Giroud score tonight against Napoli and help Arsenal qualify in first place?
Some interesting facts on both teams:
- Napoli must win by a 3 goal margin to secure a place in the top sixteen.
- Napoli must do better than Dortmund against Marseille to reach the knockout stage of the Champions League for the second time in the history of the Club. If Napoli win by a one or two goal margin and Borussia Dortmund beat Marseille, Napoli will be the first side to finish at the 3rd place in a CL group picking up 12 points.
- The Partenopei haven’t drawn a game over their last 18 fixtures in European competition.
- Arsenal are on course to reach the knockout stage for the 11th season in a row in the Champions League.
- Arsene Wenger’s side were defeated 4-0 in their last trip to Italy (vs AC Milan in February 2012).
- Arsenal have won five of their last six Champions League matches between this and last season.
- Mesut Özil has only scored once in an away game in the Champions League back in April 2012.
- Gonzalo Higuaín has never scored against an English team in the Champions League.