* Club Brugge have faced 12 different English sides in European competition, but this will be their first against Arsenal. The Belgian side have only won one of their last 18 matches against English opposition (D3 L14), although that win did come in the UEFA Champions League last term (1-0 v Aston Villa in November 2024).
* Arsenal’s last defeat against a Belgian side came in October 1981 (0-1 v KFC Winterslag in the UEFA Cup), having gone unbeaten in their last nine such matches since then (W7 D2). They’re also unbeaten in their last four away matches against Belgian sides (W3 D1) since that loss to KFC Winterslag in 1981.
* Club Brugge have conceded 24 UEFA Champions League goals in 11 games in 2025, with only Barcelona (27 in 13 games) conceding more. They’ve also faced the joint most shots on target (73) and the most expected goals against (23.5) of any side.
* Arsenal are the only side with a 100% win record in the UEFA Champions League this season, winning all five matches. In European Cup history, the four English teams to win their first six games of a campaign are Man Utd in 1965-66, Leeds in 1969-70, Liverpool in both 2021-22 and 2024-25 and Man City in 2023-24.
* Arsenal have won six of their last seven away games in the UEFA Champions League (L1), including both in the current campaign without conceding a goal (2-0 v Athletic Club and 3-0 v Slavia Prague). Only once previously have the Gunners won their first three games in a single edition of the European Cup/Champions League, doing so in 2005-06.
* Club Brugge have scored 3+ goals in each of their two home UEFA Champions League matches this season (4-1 vs Monaco, 3-3 vs Barcelona). In European Cup history, the only Belgian side to do so in three home games in a row are Anderlecht between December 1967 and September 1972 (4).
* Arsenal have won their last nine UEFA Champions League group/league phase matches, scoring 27 goals and conceding just three. The only English side to win 10 group games in a row are Liverpool between September 2022 and January 2025 (12).
* Arsenal have given up an xG of just 2.59 in the UEFA Champions League this season, the smallest of any side, and have faced just nine shots on target, also the fewest of any side. They’ve also given away just five big chances, two fewer than any other side.
* All four of Carlos Forbs’ goals and assists in the UEFA Champions League this season have come on home soil for Club Brugge (2 goals, 2 assists), assisting in both home games. Only three players have assisted in their first three home Champions League appearances – Zvonimir Boban (1993/94, Milan), Marian Hristov (1998, Kaiserslautern) and Bukayo Saka (2023, Arsenal).
* Gabriel Martinelli has scored in all four of his UEFA Champions League appearances this season for Arsenal – no Gunners player has ever scored in five Champions League games in a row, while in major European competition only two players have scored in more consecutively: Ian Wright in the 1994-95 Cup Winners’ Cup (8) and Thierry Henry in the 1999-00 UEFA Cup (6).