
PSV Eindhoven play host to Arsenal in the Champions League tonight for the first leg of their last-16 match up. The Gunners hope to secure a win and take a crucial lead back to the Emirates for next week’s deciding leg.
Mikel Arteta’s men have fallen 13 points behind Liverpool in the race for the Premier League title and their best chance of winning silverware this season now lies in Europe with Arteta making winning the Champions League the priority for his team.
The Gunners lost just one of their league phase matches and finished third in the table making them one of the favourites, along with Liverpool and Real Madrid, to lift the trophy at the end of the season.
PSV, meanwhile, came through the play-offs and earned a 4-3 aggregate win over Juventus to knock the Serie A giants out of the competition. They are second to Ajax in the Eredivisie yet were knocked out of the KNVB Cup over two legs by Go Ahead Eagles in their two most recent outings.
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GOAL! PSV 0-2 Arsenal
GOAL! And the visitors have a hold now.
It’s great movement in the box, as Trossard wriggles between tackles before finding Lewis-Skelly in the box.
He makes space for the cross and looks up to see Nwaneri making the run to the near post, and he rolls it into his path before Nwaneri lashes an effort into the top corner!
Chris Wilson4 March 2025 20:23
PSV 0-1 Arsenal
Arsenal respond to going ahead by working another great crossing chance, but this time Trossard’s ball in has a little too much on it for Odegaard.
Chris Wilson4 March 2025 20:21
GOAL! PSV 0-1 Arsenal
A couple of minutes that already look a potential turning point in this tie with Ismail Saibari slamming a shot against the bar when he perhaps should have scored and then Jurrien Timber heading Arsenal ahead to become just their second player to score in the last five games.
Richard Jolly4 March 2025 20:20
GOAL! PSV 0-1 Arsenal
GOAL! The visitors go up the other end and how they’re ahead!
It’s brilliant work from Declan Rice, who takes the pass in the box from Trossard and beats his man to make space for the cross. He clips a brilliant ball towards the back post and Jurrien Timber is there to rise above the defender and head in for 1-0!
Chris Wilson4 March 2025 20:19
OFF THE BAR! PSV 0-0 Arsenal
Plenty of high pressure from Arsenal when the hosts do have the ball in their half, but they escape it.
The hosts move the ball quickly up the other end and Lang threads a ball to the overlapping Perisic, who fizzes in a cross that Raya palms away. It falls to Saibari around eight yards out, with an almost open goal as Raya is sprawling, but the midfielder smashes an effort against the underside of the bar!
Good pressure from Gabriel to close the angle but the PSV man should score.
Chris Wilson4 March 2025 20:17
PSV 0-0 Arsenal
Another foray into the box from Arsenal ends with Merino unable to pick a pass.
We’re starting to see sustained pressure from the Gunners now.
PSV do win a free-kick in a fairly dangerous position, but it’s cleared easily.
Chris Wilson4 March 2025 20:14
PSV 0-0 Arsenal
The ball is in the net but it’s instantly disallowed as Rice has strayed offside.
Nevertheless it was a brilliant effort from the England midfielder, taking the ball near the edge of the box and fizzing a low shot into the far corner.
Chris Wilson4 March 2025 20:12
PSV 0-0 Arsenal
The check is over and the penalty shout is waved away.
It was great work from Arsenal initially, with Odegaard picking the ball up on the edge of the area before turning his marker. He made his way into the area to shoot but it looks like his leg is clipped and he hits the ground before taking the shot.
Replays aren’t too clear but it was an ‘accidental collision’ apparently.
Chris Wilson4 March 2025 20:11