Arsenal are heavy favourites with the Opta supercomputer ahead of their visit to Slavia Prague in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday. Look ahead to the game at Fortuna Arena with our Slavia Prague vs Arsenal prediction and preview.
Slavia Prague vs Arsenal: The Key Stats
The Opta supercomputer ranks Arsenal as the overwhelming favourites, giving them a 70.3% win probability to Slavia’s 11.8%.
Mikel Arteta has won 63% of his UEFA Champions League matches as Arsenal manager.
Slavia Prague have only won one of their eight home games against English teams in European competition.
The omens look good for in-form Arsenal when they visit Fortuna Arena for Tuesday’s Champions League contest against Slavia Prague.
Arsenal have won nine straight games in all competitions following Saturday’s 2-0 Premier League victory at Burnley, with first-half goals from Viktor Gyökeres and Declan Rice sealing the points.
The Gunners have a great record against sides from Czechia, too, going unbeaten in their 10 matches against teams from the nation, with eight of those ending in wins. Arsenal have scored 27 goals across those games, conceding just three in return and keeping eight clean sheets.
Defensive solidity has been the cornerstone of Arsenal’s impressive campaign thus far, and they have won their first three Champions League matches this season without conceding a goal. They are one of just two sides to do so alongside Inter.
Arsenal are looking to win their opening four games in the competition for the first time since 2005-06, while the only English team in European Cup history to win their first four matches without conceding were Leeds United in 1969-70.
Only Bayern Munich (1.37) have faced a lower expected goals (xG) total in Champions League games this term than Arsenal (1.51), while Mikel Arteta’s men have faced the joint-fewest shots on target (six – level with Manchester City).
Arsenal Defence UCL 2025-26
Arteta has masterminded an outstanding start to the league phase and the Spaniard has won 63% of his Champions League matches as Arsenal manager (winning 17 of 27 games). That represents the eighth-best win ratio for a manager to take charge of 20-plus games at a club and the best at an English side.
Slavia know they are facing an uphill battle, and they are winless in their last 14 Champions League matches (D6, L8) since winning their first game in the competition in September 2007 against FCSB. It is the longest run of any of the 36 sides in this season’s competition, and joint-longest run by a Czechia side, with Sparta Prague also going 14 without a win between February 2004 and December 2005.
Jindřich Trpišovský’s side are one of four teams who did not score on matchday two and three, and accumulated the lowest xG of any side (0.84) across those two weeks. Their shots also had the lowest xG per shot value of 0.04.
Slavia Prague Attack UCL 2025-26
Gabriel Martinelli has scored in all three of Arsenal’s Champions League matches this season, with Ian Wright the only Gunners player to score in their first four matches in a major European campaign in the 1994-95 Cup Winners’ Cup (he scored in the first eight).
However, the Brazilian has missed Arsenal’s last two matches and is a fitness doubt. Arteta will also face a nervy wait on Gyokeres and Martin Zubimendi, who both came off in the win against Burnley.
Petr Sevcik, Igoh Ogbu, and Tomas Holes are among Slavia’s absentees, while Ivan Schranz has been unavailable since the middle of October with a muscle injury.
Slavia Prague vs Arsenal Head-to-Head
Slavia Prague are winless in their four meetings with Arsenal (D2, L2). They have only faced Anderlecht (5) more times in European competition without managing a victory.
Moreover, they have only won one of their eight home games against English teams in European competition (D2, L6), going winless in seven since beating Leeds United 2-1 in the UEFA Cup in March 2000.
Since scoring twice in that game against Leeds, they have only netted one goal across the following seven.
Slavia Prague vs Arsenal Prediction
The Opta supercomputer has Arsenal as the overwhelming favourites in this contest, with the Gunners winning 71.0% of the 10,000 simulations it conducted.
Slavia, by contrast, are given just a 11.3% chance of winning, with the draw rated as a 17.9% possibility.
Arsenal are fourth in the league phase, but are actually predicted to finish top of the pile at the end of the eight games. They also have a 22.23% chance of winning the entire tournament, the highest of any team currently.
Slavia, meanwhile, are predicted to exit before the knockout phase, with their most likely position 33rd.
Slavia Prague vs Arsenal Prediction
Slavia Prague vs Arsenal Predicted Lineups
Slavia Prague: Jakub Markovic, Tomás Vlcek, David Zima, Stepán Chaloupek, Christos Zafeiris, Oscar Dorley, David Moses, Daiki Hashioka, Lukás Provod, Vasil Kusej, Tomás Chory.
Head coach: Jindřich Trpišovský
Arsenal: David Raya, Jurriën Timber, William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhães, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Eberechi Eze, Christian Nørgaard, Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard, Viktor Gyökeres.
Head coach: Mikel Arteta
Opta Power Rankings
The Opta Power Rankings are a global team ranking system. They assign an ability score to over 15,000 domestic men’s and women’s football teams. This score is on a scale between zero and 100, where zero is the worst-ranked team in the world and 100 is the best team in the world.
Ahead of kick-off on Tuesday, here is the Opta Power Ranking for both sides.
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