Dinamo Zagreb v Arsenal
Wed, 19:45 BST
Live on BT Sport Europe
Match Odds
Dinamo Zagreb 8.20, Arsenal 1.50, The Draw 4.60
We know all about Arsenal - but how good are Dinamo Zagreb? That's a difficult question to answer because the Croatian champions have no real pedigree at European level - but on a domestic front they are in historically good form.
Last season Zoran Mamic's side mimicked the Arsenal 'Invincibles' team of 2003-04 by going through the entire season unbeaten en route to the Croatian League title. Their unbeaten run now stands at 41 matches in all competitions, which means they'll go into this game brimming with confidence, even though a clash against Arsenal represents a considerable step-up in standard for the home side. This is only their fourth appearance in the Champions League group stages, and last season they failed to get out of their Europa League group.
Arsenal have a tremendous record of getting out of the group stages and have a reasonably good record away from home against non-group favourites in the group phase in recent seasons. That bodes well for the Gunners, but against a side on a fantastic unbeaten run there's little appeal in backing Arsenal to win at such short odds.
Under/Over 2.5 Goals
Unders 2.14, Overs 1.87
Backing this to be a high-scoring encounter looks the smart way to play this market.
Why? Firstly because Dinamo Zagreb will be confident of scoring. They won 4-0 in the league last Friday and the mood in their camp will be excellent considering they are now unbeaten in nearly a year.
Arsenal will also be confident of scoring goals. They should get opportunities to hurt the hosts on the counter-attack and coach Wenger will be pleased that strikers Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott got on the scoresheet in the Gunners' 2-0 win over Stoke City at the weekend.
Wenger has also stressed the importance of getting off to a winning start in order to be able to compete with Bayern Munich for first place in the group. Arsenal have fallen into a habit of going through as group runners-up in recent seasons - this has been their fate in each of the past five seasons - and the result has often been that they have landed a tougher last-16 draw.
For that reason it would be a surprise to see Arsenal willing to sit back and settle for a point.
Both Teams to Score?
Yes 2.06, No 1.88
A good alternative to the Over 2.5 Goals selection is backing both teams to score. For the same reasons outlined above this looks likely to be an open game in which both teams will be confident of finding the net.
And unusually you actually get better odds on both teams finding the net than you do on the match having over 2.5 goals because the hosts are rank outsiders and therefore clearly not fancied to find the net. For that reason I favour this market.
Recommended Bet
'Yes' in Both Teams to Score? market @ 2.06
Wed, 19:45 BST
Live on BT Sport Europe
Match Odds
Dinamo Zagreb 8.20, Arsenal 1.50, The Draw 4.60
We know all about Arsenal - but how good are Dinamo Zagreb? That's a difficult question to answer because the Croatian champions have no real pedigree at European level - but on a domestic front they are in historically good form.
Last season Zoran Mamic's side mimicked the Arsenal 'Invincibles' team of 2003-04 by going through the entire season unbeaten en route to the Croatian League title. Their unbeaten run now stands at 41 matches in all competitions, which means they'll go into this game brimming with confidence, even though a clash against Arsenal represents a considerable step-up in standard for the home side. This is only their fourth appearance in the Champions League group stages, and last season they failed to get out of their Europa League group.
Arsenal have a tremendous record of getting out of the group stages and have a reasonably good record away from home against non-group favourites in the group phase in recent seasons. That bodes well for the Gunners, but against a side on a fantastic unbeaten run there's little appeal in backing Arsenal to win at such short odds.
Under/Over 2.5 Goals
Unders 2.14, Overs 1.87
Backing this to be a high-scoring encounter looks the smart way to play this market.
Why? Firstly because Dinamo Zagreb will be confident of scoring. They won 4-0 in the league last Friday and the mood in their camp will be excellent considering they are now unbeaten in nearly a year.
Arsenal will also be confident of scoring goals. They should get opportunities to hurt the hosts on the counter-attack and coach Wenger will be pleased that strikers Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott got on the scoresheet in the Gunners' 2-0 win over Stoke City at the weekend.
Wenger has also stressed the importance of getting off to a winning start in order to be able to compete with Bayern Munich for first place in the group. Arsenal have fallen into a habit of going through as group runners-up in recent seasons - this has been their fate in each of the past five seasons - and the result has often been that they have landed a tougher last-16 draw.
For that reason it would be a surprise to see Arsenal willing to sit back and settle for a point.
Both Teams to Score?
Yes 2.06, No 1.88
A good alternative to the Over 2.5 Goals selection is backing both teams to score. For the same reasons outlined above this looks likely to be an open game in which both teams will be confident of finding the net.
And unusually you actually get better odds on both teams finding the net than you do on the match having over 2.5 goals because the hosts are rank outsiders and therefore clearly not fancied to find the net. For that reason I favour this market.
Recommended Bet
'Yes' in Both Teams to Score? market @ 2.06
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