Match Day Bayer Leverkusen welcome Arsenal for the first leg of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16. While the Gunners finished atop the league phase, Leverkusen ended 16th before reaching the knockouts via the play-offs.

Agbonlahor: If I was Arsenal, any set-piece you score off, every player go and run to the bench and celebrate. Celebrate even more when you score from a set-piece. Time-waste even more against those who told you not to, just to wind people up.

BILD journalist Christian Falk recently shared an update on Goretzka’s future with CFBayern. “In his [Goretzka’s] heart, he feels this [Arsenal] would be a perfect next club.”

Arsenal have been drawn against Southampton in the FA Cup quarter-finals.

Arsenal are the first team in England and just the third in Europe to surpass the 100-goal mark in all competitions this season. Bayern Munich and Barcelona are the only other sides to do it. This is the Gunners’ best goalscoring season since 1952/53 – 73 years ago!

Gabby Agbonlahor: Don’t listen to a thing. Do what’s best for Arsenal. No one’s going to remember in 20 years that Arsenal won the Premier League, and they scored a lot of set-pieces and they played boring football. No one’s going to care.

Arsenal's 2025-26 season — 7 points clear at the top of the Premier League with 8 games to go — Champions League last 16 — FA Cup quarter finals — Carabao Cup final

FT: Mansfield Town 1-2 Arsenal The Gunners moved into the FA Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 2020, when we last lifted the trophy.

Arsenal are unbeaten in the last 12 away matches in all competitions (W9 D3), since a defeat at Villa Park on 6th December. This is the longest unbeaten run on the road under Mikel Arteta. The away form could be what drives us to the title.

Bukayo Saka: "This feels like a massive win. We heard the fans celebrating out of nowher during the game so l sort of knew in my head that something had gone well in the other game. But we are just focused on ourselves."

Rob Green: 'Arsenal don't care how they played, they won.'

Rob Green Arsenal can keep playing badly and winning all they like. It's the others that are faltering. Man City are faltering. And you just look at this Arsenal side and how they go about winning games, they manage to just grind out results and that's all they've done tonight.

David Raya gives his gloves to a young lad in the jubilant away end. There were big cheers when the full-time result at Man City was confirmed.

Sky Sports' Sam Blitz: "How the picture changes: when everyone was talking about Arsenal's durability - it's Man City slip up on a night when the Gunners were robust."

Three points for Arsenal Two points dropped for Manchester City Thank you, Nottingham Forest Seven points clear at the top of the Premier League

FT: Brighton 0-1 Arsenal Big three points

Nottingham Forest have scored the second goal against Manchester City

Bukayo Saka has scored for Arsenal on his 300th appearance for the club. He is the fourth-youngest Arsenal player to reach that feat, behind David O'Leary, Cesc Fabregas and Liam Brady...

HT: Brighton 0-1 Arsenal

Martin Keown: Saliba’s so mobile that he can go into midfield and deal with most players. He’s still developing, he still can get better. That’s the scary thing.