How to watch Arsenal vs Bayer Leverkusen in US and UK - TV channel, live stream, early team news
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Arsenal faces Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League later today. Here is how to watch the game, TV channel, live stream details, highlights, and early team news.Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta.(Image: Marvin Ibo Guengoer - GES Sportfoto/Getty Images)Last season, Liverpool finished top of the new-look Champions League group and its prize was to face PSG next.
For Arsenal, there was much more of a reward.While no European game is easy, being on the better side of the draw — on paper — means that Arsenal has a good chance of making the final in Budapest. In the US, the game will be televised by Paramount+.For Arsenal, Martin Odegaard and Jurrien Timber are out injured, but Leandro Trossard is available.
Max Dowman, after he became the Premier League's youngest goalscorer over the weekend, will be hoping for more minutes."It was a significant moment, a really nice moment to live together," Mikel Arteta said on Dowman's goal in his pre-match press conference. He's done it and now it's football, and what you've done a few days ago is not relevant anymore, it's about the next one."On the Leverkusen game, Arteta added: "[I'm expecting] very much the same and watching them play against Bayern Munich at the weekend, very similar."So again, really well coached, a team with a very clear structure, really good individuals."Obviously we are in the stage, in the competition that we are in right now, so we know what we have to do, and in front of our crowd, with our people, putting all the energy in the world again, hopefully we are going to do it.Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta(Image: Photo by Catherine Ivill - AMA/Getty Images)"I love those moments, and when the team needs help and the crowd is pushing there, I think in any way that we can contribute, help, support the players, give them confidence and energy, we have to be there, and I think it makes a difference."We noticed immediately the moment the crowd got more relaxed, more positive, the atmosphere changed and the players started to make better decisions and we managed to win the game."Probably the will to win increases year by year when you've been so close as well, but yeah, stay focused, live the present, enjoy it as well, because we have to feel privileged where we are, and then obviously have that will, that bite to make it happen."