Arsenal’s XI is as expected. There’s one change from their last Premier League game, a 1-0 win at Brighton a week ago. The fit-again William Saliba replaces Cristhian Mosquera in defence. Kai Havertz is on the bench against his old club.

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Leverkusen’s side includes the England international Jarell Quansah. They make one change from the 3-3 draw with Freiburg at the weekend: Exequiel Palacios comes into the midfield in place of Equi Fernandez.

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Bayer Leverkusen (3-4-2-1) Blaswich; Quansah, Andrich, Tapsoba; Poku, Palacios, Garcia, Grimaldo; Terriera, Maza; Kofane.

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Subs: Omlin, Lomb, Fernandez, Hofmann, Tilmann, Schick, Oermann, Tape, Culbreath.

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Arsenal (4-3-3) Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie; Eze, Zubimendi, Rice; Saka, Gyokeres, Martinelli.

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Subs: Arrizabalaga, Ranson, Mosquera, White, Jesus, Norgaard, Madueke, Havertz, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman, Salmon.

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Referee Umut Meler (Turkey).

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Hello and welcome to live, minute-by-minute coverage of the first leg of the Champions League clash between Bayer Leverkusen and Arsenal in Germany. Arsenal, runawayish leaders in the Premier League, are strong favourites to reach their third consecutive Champions League quarter-final. That’s happened only once before, between 2007-08 and 2009-10, and would be another marker of their undeniable progress under Mikel Arteta.

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While Arsenal topped the league stage with a perfect record of eight wins from eight, Leverkusen finished 16th and had to go into the playoffs. They won that pretty comfortably, beating Olympiacos 2-0 on aggregate, but they are a long way from the glories of two seasons ago. Tonight is a chance to hit the heights again.

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Kick off 5.45pm GMT.

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Evento principal

8 minutos “Es extraño cómo algunos jugadores y equipos nos causan una impresión tan extraña”, escribe Matt Dony. “Para mí, el Bayer Leverkusen estuvo congelado para siempre en la temporada 2001-02, alterando las probabilidades en cada etapa.

“Michael Ballack vendió para siempre el muñeco más grande del mundo a Steven Gerrard, que seguía deslizándose en un vano intento de bloquear el tiro que no llegó (en lugar del que sí llegó). Gary Neville vio para siempre desaparecer su Copa del Mundo con un metatarsiano roto (página Danny Mills).

“Hans-Jorg Butt veía regularmente a Zidane anotar la tercera mejor volea de un partido. campeonato Final. (McManaman y Bale, ya que preguntaste). Nadie esperaba que llegaran a la final ahora, pero nadie esperaba que lo hicieran entonces tampoco. Ojalá sea un buen partido, algo de lo que todavía podamos hablar dentro de 24 años”.

Quizás incluso algunos tabaco y alcohol.

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