Arsenal will look to win the hand in their Europa League quarter-final clash with Slavia Prague when the groups meet at the Emirates Stadium on Thursday.
The Gunners enter this game after a humble 3-0 home loss to Liverpool last weekend, their third game with a win in all competitions.
However, they are clear favourites 11/20 (1. 55) with bet365 to take the lead in this draw with a fifth win in five Europa League home games this season.
However, Jindrich Trpisovsky’s side have eliminated Leicester City and Rangers in their last two knockout matches and can be backed up at 5/1 (6. 00) to disappoint the British opponent by winning here.
Only one of the hosts’ 10 games at this season’s festival ended in a draw, however, you can get 16/5 (4. 20) odds for them to get stuck in this one.
Arsenal trio Granit Xhaka, Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe have returned to education after injury, Kieran Tierney and David Luiz are ruled out.
Ondrej Kudela has been suspended while UEFA investigates his allegations of racist abuse against Rangers’ Glen Kamara, while Ondrej Kolar and David Hovorka are injured and Ibrahim Traoré is in doubt.
After scoring 14 goals in their first 4 Europa League home games this season, Mikel Arteta’s men gave the impression of losing their merit in the 1-0 home loss to Olympiakos last time.
Having also appeared devoid of attacking momentum in their home game against Liverpool this weekend, they will be worried about the prospect of facing a Czech side that proved difficult to break in the knockout stages.
In fact, Slavia have conceded one goal in four games against Leicester and Rangers, keeping a clean sheet in any of the away games.
Going into this clash after four consecutive blank sheets in all competitions, they seem to value well the value of 10/11 (1. 91) to secure less than 2. 5 goals for the fifth consecutive game in the Europa League against a suffering Arsenal team.
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