Arsenal travel to Italy to face Inter Milan for the UEFA Champions League league-phase contest at San Siro on Tuesday night as the Gunners aim to extend their winning streak in the UCL.
Inter secured a narrow 1-0 victory over Lecce in the Serie A last time out.
However, Cristian Chivu’s side fell to a disappointing 1-0 defeat to Liverpool in their last Champions League game.
Arsenal were held to a goalless draw at Nottingham Forest as the Gunners missed the chance to go nine points clear of Manchester City and Aston Villa in the Premier League standings.
The Gunners defeated Club Brugge 3-0 to maintain their perfect start in the Champions League as they currently sit first in the league-phase standings with 18 points from six games.
**Match preview**
Inter Milan and Arsenal will meet for the fourth time in the UEFA Champions League – the Italians have won two of the previous three (L1), including one over a Mikel Arteta-led Gunners side in last season’s league phase (1-0 in November 2024).
Arsenal’s last victory away to an Italian side in the UEFA Champions League was in March 2008 (2-0 v Milan). Since then, they have failed to win on five straight trips (D1 L4), while failing to score a single goal.
The Nerazzurri have lost two of their last three home matches against English sides (both versus Liverpool, 2022 and 2025), as many defeats as they suffered through their first 10 home games against English teams in the European Cup/Champions League combined (W5 D3 L2).
If Arsenal win this game, they will set their longest ever winning streak in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (7). The Gunners have won each of their last six by an aggregate score of 17-1, keeping five clean sheets.
Milan won their first four games in the Champions League this term but have since lost the last two (v Atlético Madrid and Liverpool). The Italian side last suffered three consecutive defeats in the competition between April and September 2011, while current manager Christian Chivu was an active player for Inter.
Since the start of 2025, Inter Milan’s Lautaro Martínez has scored the joint-most goals in Champions League home matches (8 – level with Serhou Guirassy).
Arsenal winger Gabriel Martinelli has scored in all five of his Champions League appearances this season (five goals). Should he play and find the net against Inter, he would record the longest-ever scoring streak by a Brazilian player in the competition (6), surpassing five-game streaks by Neymar (on two occasions, 2015 and 2017) and Jardel in 1999.
**Team news**
**Inter Milan**
Denzel Dumfries, Hakan Calhanoglu, Raffaele Di Gennaro and Tomas Palacios are unavailable for the hosts with injuries.
**Arsenal**
Riccardo Calafiori, Piero Hincapie and Max Dowman are sidelined with injuries.
**Predicted line-ups**
**Inter Milan**: Yann Sommer, Francesco Acerbi, Manuel Akanji, Alessandro Bastoni, Luis Henrique, Nicolò Barella, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Piotr Zielinski, Federico Dimarco, Marcus Thuram, Lautaro Martínez.
**Arsenal**: David Raya, Ben White, William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhães, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Eberechi Eze, Martín Zubimendi, Mikel Merino, Noni Madueke, Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli.