Arsenal have won three of their four meetings with Dinamo Zagreb across all competitions (L1), while this will be the second UEFA Champions League campaign in which they’ve faced in the group/league phase. Both teams won their home fixture in the 2015-16 edition, with the Gunners winning 3-0 at the Emirates.

No Croatian team has ever won away from home against an English side in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (D1 L3), with all four of those previous attempts being by Dinamo Zagreb.

Arsenal have won their last two UEFA Champions League matches, winning by three or more goals in each game. They’ve never done so in three European Cup games in a row, while in major European competition they only did this once – in four games in a row in 2020-21 in the UEFA Europa League.

In their first four UEFA Champions League games this season, Dinamo Zagreb netted 10 goals from 42 shots (24% conversion rate), but they have failed to score with any of their 16 shots in their last two games.

Since the start of last season, no side has won more home UEFA Champions League matches than Arsenal (W7 D1) and their 21 home goals are bettered by only three teams. In this timeframe, the Gunners have also kept the most home clean sheets of any side (7).

Arsenal haven’t conceded a single goal from open play in the UEFA Champions League this season, with both of their goals conceded coming from set pieces (one corner, one penalty). Indeed, the Gunners have the lowest xG faced from open play in the competition this term (2.4). 

Dinamo Zagreb have won their last two UEFA Champions League away games, winning more games and the same number of points as they did in their first 25 away matches in the competition (W1 D3 L21). They’ve netted eight goals in three away games this season, only two fewer than they managed across their eight previous campaigns in the competition (10).

Among teams to have scored 20+ UEFA Champions League goals in the last two seasons, the only player involved in a higher percentage of his team’s goals than Bukayo Saka for Arsenal (14/30, 46.7%) is Harry Kane for Bayern Munich (47.4%, 18/38), with Saka scoring eight and assisting six. However, he will miss this game through injury.

Only Borussia Dortmund’s Jamie Gittens (4) has scored more away UEFA Champions League goals this season than Dinamo Zagreb’s Sandro Kulenovic (3). In their major European history, the only Zagreb player with more than three away goals in one season is Bruno Petkovic in the 2020-21 Europa League (4).

Kai Havertz has scored three goals in the UEFA Champions League this season; his joint-most in a single edition (also three for Chelsea in 2021-22). The German has already scored more goals (3), registered more shots on target (5) and had more touches in the opposition box (30) this season than he did in 12 appearances in Chelsea’s winning campaign in 2020-21.