Overview
- Arsenal are the only team with a 100% Champions League record this season after five wins from five and now travel to Belgium for their sixth group match.
- Mikel Arteta says Christian Mosquera and Kai Havertz will be out for weeks, with Gabriel Magalhaes still unavailable and William Saliba described as only days from a return.
- Club Brugge enter the tie on a poor run and sit outside the knockout play-off places on four points after defeats to Sporting CP, Bayern Munich and Atalanta and a 3-2 loss to Sint-Truidense.
- Local reports indicate Brugge could be without both first-choice goalkeepers, with Simon Mignolet and Nordin Jackers sidelined, and Zaid Romero, Lynnt Audoor, Ludovit Reis and Romeo Vermant also ruled out.
- Supporter discontent has grown in Bruges, with fans reportedly directing anger at the board over perceived failures to reinvest transfer income.