Arsenal vs PSV Eindhoven facts

Arsenal are in a dominant position in their UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie against PSV Eindhoven, welcoming the Dutch champions to London holding a 7-1 advantage.

Goals from Jurriën Timber (18), Ethan Nwaneri (21) – the 17-year-old becoming the third-youngest player to find the net in the Champions League knockout rounds – and Mikel Merino (31) put the Gunners in charge in Eindhoven on 4 March. Noa Lang's 42nd-minute penalty reduced PSV's arrears, but they had no answer to second-half strikes from Martin Ødegaard (47, 73), Leandro Trossard (48) and Riccardo Calafiori (85) as Arsenal became the first team to score seven in an away knockout Champions League game.

Previous meetings

Matches 11
Arsenal wins 5
PSV wins 2
Draws 4
Arsenal goals 20
PSV goals 7

2002/03 Champions League first group stage
PSV 0-4 Arsenal
Arsenal 0-0 PSV
Gilberto's first-minute strike in Eindhoven was added to in the second period by Fredrik Ljungberg and two Thierry Henry goals in the final ten minutes; the Gunners earned a draw in north London despite losing Kolo Touré to a 35th-minute red card.

2004/05 Champions League group stage
Arsenal 1-0 PSV
PSV 1-1 Arsenal
An own goal from PSV defender Alex gave Arsenal a home win, the English side holding on for a draw in Netherlands after Lauren (65) and Patrick Vieira (78) had both been dismissed, Henry having cancelled out André Ooijer's early opener.

2006/07 Champions League round of 16
PSV 1-0 Arsenal
Arsenal 1-1 PSV
Ronald Koeman's PSV overcame Arsène Wenger's Arsenal as Alex again took centre stage by scoring at both ends of the second leg, his 83rd-minute equaliser ending Arsenal's first European campaign in their new stadium.

2022/23 UEFA Europa League group stage
Arsenal 1-0 PSV
PSV 2-0 Arsenal
Granit Xhaka's strike earned Mikel Arteta's Arsenal a home win; PSV, coached by Ruud van Nistelrooy, reversed the result a week later thanks to second-half strikes from Joey Veerman and Luuk de Jong.

2023/24 Champions League group stage
Arsenal 4-0 PSV
PSV 1-1 Arsenal
Arsenal marked their first Champions League match since 2017 with an emphatic win on Matchday 1, goals from Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Jesus in the first half added to in the second by Martin Ødegaard in a 4-0 victory that was PSV's heaviest defeat in England. Yorbe Vertessen's equaliser earned a draw for the home side in Eindhoven, Eddie Nketiah having given Arsenal a first-half lead.

Form guide

Arsenal

Record vs Dutch clubs: W9 D8 L4 F35 A14
Home record vs Dutch clubs: W5 D4 L1

The 2022 defeat in Eindhoven is Arsenal's only loss in their last ten games against Dutch clubs (W6 D3).

Arsenal are unbeaten in their last nine home matches against Dutch clubs, last season's win against PSV making it four successive victories.

Arsenal's record in two-legged ties against Dutch clubs is W1 L2, the last contest bringing their first victory, a 6-0 aggregate win against Twente in the 2008/09 Champions League third qualifying round.

Having not featured in the Champions League proper between 2016/17 and 2023/24, Arsenal are making their second successive appearance.

Mikel Arteta's side finished first in Group B last season and then edged past Porto (0-1 a, 1-0 h, 4-2 pens) – their first round of 16 success since 2009/10, also against the Portuguese side – but lost to Bayern München in the quarter-finals (2-2 h, 0-1 a).

Arsenal's record in the round of 16 is W6 L9. They won five of their first seven ties but were on a run of seven successive defeats before last season's defeat of Porto.

Arsenal have won 15 of their last 19 home European matches, losing only one; they have beaten Paris Saint-Germain (2-0), Shakhtar Donetsk (1-0), Monaco and GNK Dinamo (both 3-0) this season.

The Londoners have won 16 of the 17 UEFA competition ties in which they won the away first leg.

Arsenal's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W3 L3:
4-5 v Valencia, 1979/80 European Cup Winners' Cup final
3-2 v Sampdoria, 1994/95 Cup Winners' Cup semi-final
1-4 v Galatasaray, 1999/2000 UEFA Cup final
7-6 v Roma, 2008/09 Champions League round of 16
3-5 v Sporting CP, 2022/23 Europa League round of 16
4-2 v Porto, 2023/24 Champions League round of 16

PSV

Record vs English clubs: W12 D11 L19 F41 A58
Away record vs English clubs: W4 D4 L12

PSV have managed only one win in their last 13 games away to English clubs.

PSV were 3-2 winners at home to Liverpool on Matchday 8; the 2-0 home win against Arsenal in 2022 is PSV's only other victory in their last 11 games against English clubs (D4 L5); they have won only five of the last 28 (D9 L14).

PSV's last two-legged tie against English opposition was a 1-2 aggregate defeat by Leicester in the 2021/22 UEFA Conference League quarter-final, making their overall record W5 L5.

Last season PSV finished second behind Arsenal to earn a first knockout appearance since 2015/16 only to lose out to eventual finalists Borussia Dortmund in the round of 16 (1-1 h, 0-2 a).

That made PSV's record in the round of 16 W2 L3, their previous tie eight years earlier ending in an 8-7 defeat on penalties by Atlético de Madrid in the only Champions League tie to finish goalless.

A 3-2 Matchday 7 win at Crvena Zvezda this season is one of only two PSV victories in their last 22 away matches in the Champions League proper (D6 L14); this season they have lost at Juventus (1-3, 1-2) and Brest (0-1), drawing 1-1 at Paris Saint-Germain.

The Eindhoven side have won six of their last 20 European away games, losing seven.

PSV have lost all six European ties in which they suffered a home first-leg defeat.

PSV's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W3 L3:
6-5 v Benfica, 1987/88 European Cup final
6-7 v Nacional, 1988 European/South American Cup
4-5 v Feyenoord, 2001/02 UEFA Cup quarter-final
4-2 v Lyon, 2004/05 Champions League round of 16
6-5 v Tottenham, 2007/08 Europa League round of 16
7-8 v Atlético de Madrid, 2015/16 Champions League round of 16

Links and trivia

In 2016/17 Arsenal defender Oleksandr Zinchenko made 12 Eredivisie appearances on loan at PSV, where his team-mates included De Jong.

Have played in England:
Ivan Perišić (Tottenham 2022–24)
Tyrell Malacia (Manchester United 2022–25)
Luuk de Jong (Newcastle 2014 loan)

Have played in Netherlands:
Jurriën Timber (Ajax 2014–23)
Martin Ødegaard (Heerenveen 2017–18 loan, Vitesse 2018/19 loan)

Have played together:
William Saliba & Walter Benítez (Nice 2020/21)
Takehiro Tomiyasu & Jordy Schouten (Bologna 2019–21)
Jurriën Timber & Noa Lang, Sergiño Dest (Ajax 2018–20)

Latest news

Arsenal

Arsenal had only two goals in four games in all competitions (W1 D1 L2) before becoming the first team to score seven in a Champions League away knockout game at PSV.

The Gunners drew 1-1 at Manchester United on Sunday, making it three Premier League games without a win (D2 L1) and leaving them 15 points behind leaders Liverpool.

A 0-1 home defeat by West Ham on 22 February ended Arsenal's 15-match unbeaten Premier League run (W10 D5), since losing by the same scoreline at Newcastle on 2 November.

Gabriel Martinelli came on on Sunday having been out since suffering a thigh problem on 5 February.

On 12 February Arsenal confirmed Kai Havertz is expected to miss the rest of the season after suffering a hamstring injury in training.

Bukayo Saka has been sidelined by a hamstring injury on 21 December.

Gabriel Jesus is facing a lengthy spell on the sidelines after damaging the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the FA Cup defeat by Manchester United on 12 January.

Takehiro Tomiyasu has been out since 5 October due to a knee injury.

PSV

PSV claimed their third win in ten games in all competitions (D3 L4) on Saturday, beating Heerenveen 2-1 in Eindhoven.

PSV have suffered three defeats in their last ten Eredivisie matches – as many as in the previous 71 (W58 D10).

The Dutch champions won their first ten Eredivisie games this season and 14 of the first 15 (L1) but have managed only three victories in the subsequent ten.

Peter Bosz's side had lost three successive games in all competitions – their longest run of defeats since March-April 2014 – before beating Heerenveen.

Mauro Júnior started on Saturday having missed the previous three games.

Sergiño Dest made his first appearance this season as a substitute on Saturday having recovered from a knee injury sustained in May.

Ricardo Pepi is unlikely to play again this season after surgery on a knee injury suffered against Liverpool on Matchday 8.

Malik Tillman has been out since suffering "a serious ankle injury" in a 5-4 Dutch Cup win against Excelsior on 14 January.

The first-leg loss to Arsenal was only the fourth time in PSV's history they had lost by a six-goal margin, and the first at home.