Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal: Live Champions League Action, Team News, and Real-Time Updates as Both Teams Chase Elusive Trophy

For Arsenal, there’s perhaps no challenge more significant than this one.

While their aspirations to clinch the Premier League title are well-known, their quest for a Champions League victory often flies under the radar. Despite the club’s storied history, Arsenal has never captured the Champions League trophy.

Whether under its current name, since the early ’90s, or as the European Cup before then, European triumph has consistently eluded the Gunners.

Now, they stand just three matches away from lifting the coveted trophy, affectionately known as Ol’ Big Ears.

Making it to the semi-finals for a consecutive year, Arsenal is determined to avoid last season’s heartbreak in Paris. This time, in Madrid, they aim to make it not just one, but two steps further.

Tonight they face arguably the weakest – not that they are poor – side left in the competition, Atletico Madrid at the Metropolitano. On paper, this is the best draw they could have got, but football isn’t played on paper.

Anybody who knows Atletico and Diego Simeone knows just how tough this could prove to be for the Gunners.

After last night, though, let’s just hope it ain’t boring!