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Wolfsburg, occupying fourth place, have a potentially tricky affair with Borussia Monchengladbach, action of which will be live on World Football channel on StarTimes. Just ask Bayern’s coach, who experienced more than his share of big matches at Barcelona.

The 26-year old was largely invisible during Arsenal’s 2-1 defeat to Dinamo Zagreb on Matchday one but his newfound confidence is likely to spell trouble for the Greek side.

However, the focus is now back on Champions League football and the upcoming clash with Olympiakos is crucial if the Gunners want to qualify for the knockout stages, after they lost their opening match against Dinamo Zagreb.

A huge morale boost for Wenger will be the offensive efficiency and clinical finishing Arsenal demonstrated at Leicester which means it is unlikely that the Gunners boss will make as many alterations to his side as he did in Zagreb.

“If we produce our performances we want at home“.

Cazorla was shown a second yellow card for sliding in on Cesc Fabregas and Hazard made the game safe a minute from time with a shot that beat former Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech via a sizeable deflection off Calum Chambers.

Junior Fernandes doubled Dinamo Zagreb’s lead in the second half and Theo Walcott’s late strike was not enough to prevent the Croatian champions recording a first ever win over an English club.

As far as the supporters are concerned though, there’s only one outcome in this year’s Champions League campaign…

On a night of pulsating action, Malmo, Dinamo Zagreb, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Shakhtar Donetsk also booked money-spinning group stage spots in Europe’s premier club competition.

Real Madrid boss Rafael Benitez has explained why the La Liga giants spent €35 million on new midfielder Mateo Kovacic.

They got off to the flawless start when Rodrigo tapped home the opener only four minutes into the game. But when the dust settles and they analyse how this Champions League first-leg qualifier went, they will understand that it could have been very different.

Meanwhile, Jo Inge Berget came back to haunt his old club Celtic, who will take a slender advantage to Malmo after a thrilling first leg between the two sides in Glasgow. After Griffiths opened the scoring on five minutes, Nir Bitton added a second just a few minutes later.

Despite going a goal behind to FC Stjarnan in Iceland, Ronny Deila’s men eventually ran out 4-1 winners and their reward is a trip to a country the club has never previously visited in Europe.