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Arsenal underlined their credentials as Champions League favourites on Wednesday with a dominant win over Bayern Munich at the Emirates.

The hosts were happy to sit off early on in what was a cagey opening, but a trademark Arsenal set-piece routine opened the scoring as Jurrien Timber rose to glance in Declan Rice’s corner.

Home fans though their team would be two up not long later as derby hero Ebere Eze went clean through, but he misplaced the pass to Saka before the visitors equalised with a slick move of their own moments later, Serge Gnabry squaring Joshua Kimmich’s diagonal pass for Lennart Karl to tap in.

However, it was Arsenal who came back out looking for the win, with the Gunners dominating the visitors as a series of set-pieces caused plenty of trouble.

However, it was to be a superb team move of their own that gave the hosts the lead, substitute Riccardo Calafiori delivering a brilliant cross that Noni Madueke bundled in well.

And there was time to put the icing on the cake late on too as Gabriel Martinelli left Neuer in no-man’s land to tap in a third and give the Gunners control of the Champions League league phase.

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How their Bayern demolition proves Arsenal are the best side in Europe

Another victory of outstanding quality, that may yet set up more to come. And maybe a new Champions League winner.

If a theme of this second campaign of an expanded Champions League has been the sense of lower stakes, this 3-1 Arsenal win over the next best side in Europe may yet be a sign of how this season is actually decided. That isn’t just for the fact that Mikel Arteta’s supremely complete side comprehensively won a tactically-rich contest between fine sides, or even that 17-year-old Bayern Munich revelation Lennart Karl looked so promising.

There was also the nature of the tactical contest, that has started to form another theme of this season.

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Chris Wilson26 November 2025 22:40

Why Spurs will feel good despite shipping five goals in Paris

In the space of four days, Tottenham have shown there really are different ways to lose a football match.

Four touches in the opposition penalty area in defeat to your greatest rivalis not the one. A young, vibrant side taking the game to the effervescent European champions Paris Saint-Germain is.

On paper, conceding five goals is hardly going to completely win over disgruntled masses still smarting from the tedium of Sunday’s North London derby disaster. Those who can see the wood for the trees, however, will afford Thomas Frank a little grace now, at least.

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Chris Wilson27 November 2025 00:00

No way out for crisis-ridden Liverpool as PSV run rampant in 4-1 Anfield humiliation

The report from Liverpool’s surprise loss...

Arne Slot’s excellence against Dutch clubs propelled him to Liverpool. Now it is a sign of how everything seems to be going wrong for Slot that even that prowess appears to have deserted him. Peter Bosz was the Dutch master of Anfield as, scarcely believably, Liverpool suffered a ninth defeat in 12 games. They did not just lose. They were hammered.

PSV Eindhoven pipped Slot’s Feyenoord to the Eredivisie title two seasons ago, beat his Liverpool in what was, for the Merseyside club, a dead-rubber in January and now defeated them again in a rather more meaningful match and with rather greater consequences. Not merely because Liverpool now look unlikely to book a top-eight finish in the Champions League’s initial phase, either.

Twelfth in the Premier League, hit for four by PSV, this is crisis time for Slot and Liverpool. The sense that they were on the road to recovery, amplified by victory over Real Madrid, has given way to three losses, with 10 goals conceded in them. For the first time in Slot’s tenure, they were breached four times at Anfield.

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Chris Wilson26 November 2025 23:30

Next up

The huge games keep coming for the Gunners, who face second-place Chelsea in the Premier League this weekend.

There’s just six points in it at the top but an Arsenal win would be a huge step towards the title you’d think.

That one kicks off at 4.30pm on Sunday, 30 November.

Chris Wilson26 November 2025 23:20

Could all six English clubs qualify for Champions League knockouts after latest wobble?

The continent’s top teams are now past the halfway stage of the 2025/26 Champions League league phase, with each of the 36 clubs involved having played five of their eight matches ahead of the knockout rounds starting in February.

The competition has already seen some blockbuster matches as some of the continent’s top sides have faced off – with Chelsea securing a famous win over Barcelona and Arsenal dominating Bayern Munich – and the race for the automatic qualification places is beginning to heat up.

The teams who finish in the top eight in the table will qualify for the knockout rounds automatically, with those sides in ninth to 24th facing off in play-off ties in order to qualify for the knockout rounds proper. The competition for places is already close, with only four points separating sixth-placed Dortmund and Union SG in 25th.

Premier League clubs dominated the early matches in the league phase – with Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool and Newcastle United all previously occupying places in the top eight – and though the Blues continued that trend with the win over Barcelona, recent losses for City, Newcastle and Liverpool mean that some of the English clubs need to start picking up wins if they want to ensure automatic qualification.

So, with four matches left and each club facing drastically different schedules, could each Premier League side finish in the top eight automatic qualification places?

Could all six English clubs qualify for Champions League knockouts after wobbles?

With all six Premier league clubs still in with a chance of the top eight in the league phase, could every English side qualify for the Champions League knockout rounds automatically?

Chris Wilson26 November 2025 23:10