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11/26 05:19 CST Arsenal hosts Bayern in clash between Champions League's top
two. Inter aims for 5th win at Atletico
Arsenal hosts Bayern in clash between Champions League's top two. Inter aims
for 5th win at Atletico
LONDON (AP) --- The top two teams in the Champions League standings meet
Wednesday as Arsenal hosts Bayern Munich in a game between the leaders in the
Premier League and Bundesliga.
Arsenal has yet to concede a goal in four straight wins in the eight-round
opening phase but is still second behind Bayern on the tiebreaker of more goals
scored, with both having the same goal difference.
Five of Bayern's 14 Champions League goals were scored by Harry Kane, who
returns to North London where he averaged 30 per season in his last nine years
at Arsenal's archrival Tottenham.
Inter Milan is the only other team on 12 points --- in third place in the
36-team standings --- and looks for a fifth straight win at Atletico Madrid.
Real Madrid is at Olympiakos after its 1-0 loss in the fourth round at
Liverpool, which now hosts PSV Eindhoven.
Paris Saint-Germain is at home to Tottenham in a repeat of their Super Cup game
in August that the Champions League title holder won in a penalty shootout
after a 2-2 draw.
Two Europa League winners in the past four seasons, Eintracht Frankfurt and
Atalanta, meet in Germany, and Sporting Lisbon hosts Club Brugge.
This is the fourth season of UEFA excluding teams from Russia in its
competitions during the war on Ukraine but Pafos hosting Monaco is a meeting of
clubs whose owners include Russian billionaires.
Pafos is co-owned by Sergey Lomakin and Monaco's majority owner is Dmitry
Rybolovlev, who once bought a property in Florida from future U.S. President
Donald Trump.
The other early game Wednesday sends Kairat Almaty from Kazakhstan to face
Copenhagen. Each team has just one point and is, respectively, No. 35 and No.
33 in the standings.
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