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Kiriama 16: I love seeing Wenger in a suit, the moment he wears his jacket I always smell danger.

Arsenal are having a right flurry of injuries again but they put together a neat flowing move down the right, it is cut back and Santi Cazorla leans back and fires well over the crossbar. 

An early Gunners goal would settle the nerves down. 

Jermaine Jenas
Ex-Spurs and England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 live

"It's well documented that Arsene Wenger likes his heavy, sand-based pitches. They're beautiful to play on, but when I trained there with England, you used to feel the impact on your joints."

Chelsea look a mess at the back as again they are cut open all too easily. Eran Zahavi is away down the left, his cross is hurriedly sliced out by John Terry and Eli Dasa fires over. Fine start from the hosts. 

Chelsea should already be behind, what a chance this is. A free header for Dor Peretz, four yards out, but he closes his eyes and heads it over. 50p head!

Zagreb force a second early corner, Arsenal looking shaky in the very early stages.

Remember Arsenal must win tonight - and then hope Bayern beat Olympiakos.

And game on in Haifa too.

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We are under way!

A very sharp opening from the visitors sees them skip through the home ranks and win a corner.

Tal Ben Haim (I) is the recipient of plenty of hand slaps from those Chelsea players who have played with him in the past. A sea of yellow and blue inside the Sammy Ofer Stadium.

RE: Mourinho's pitch problems - one goalmouth looks particularly scarred. 

Apologies if this is old news, but I'm impressed - Arsenal put on a fancy light show ahead of the players emerging at the Emirates. In the old days it used to take 90 minutes to fire up the floodlights...

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer at Emirates Stadium

Thousands of empty seats at Emirates Stadium less than 10 minutes before kick-off - but seen this one before here when the latecomers roll up right on kick-off.

Sure Arsenal's fans have not given up on this Champions League campaign just yet.

All set for the game at the Emirates - but it's far from full.

A reminder - Arsenal must win. 

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No words.

Lose tonight and Arsenal may avoid a spiral of results earlier than April Max!

Max Seitler: Wenger's Plan: don't qualify, don't get thumped by European Giant in last 16, and avoid yearly spiral of results in April.

Joe Wedgwood: Fed up with fickle @Arsenal, external fans! This talk of 'deliberately wanting elimination' is just pathetic!

Did we take the Premier League's dominance of the Champions League for granted?

Eight finalists in eight years, 14 teams in the semi-finals over the same period. Not a single team in the last eight last year.

And this year?

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No such pitch concerns at the Emirates of course. A carpet of green awaits the players. Not long now.

Jose Mourinho has gone early with his shout against the surface. It's hard to say whether he has a point or not yet - it does look to be cutting up a touch during the warm up. We'll see how it takes a John Terry challenge. 

Conor McNamara
BBC Radio 5 live in Tel Aviv

"I think Mourinho just wants his team to get on a run now: calm down, and get back to winning ways. Silverware can wait for later in the season."