Mikel Arteta will hope his team can build on their win over PSG last time out in the UEFA Champions League. Follow along with the best facts and live Opta data in our Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk stats page.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk stats from their UEFA Champions League meeting at Emirates Stadium.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own in-game and post-match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk: Pre-Match Facts
- All four Champions League meetings between Arsenal and Shakhtar Donetsk have been won by the home side, in the 2000-01 and 2010-11 group stages; the Gunners won 3-2 at Highbury in 2000 and 5-1 at the Emirates in 2010.
- Shakhtar Donetsk have failed to win any of their seven away Champions League matches in England, all in the group stages (D1 L6). They did avoid defeat on their last visit though, drawing 1-1 with Manchester City in November 2019.
- Arsenal haven’t lost a home game in the group/league stage of the Champions League since September 2015 (3-2 v Olympiakos), winning eight of the nine such games since then (D1). Indeed, the Gunners have kept a clean sheet in all eight victories in that run.
- Arsenal have kept a clean sheet in both of their games in the Champions League this season (0-0 v Atalanta and 2-0 v Paris Saint-Germain), while they last kept three in a row in the competition back in September-November 2007 under Arsène Wenger (4).
- Shakhtar Donetsk are one of only four teams yet to score in the Champions League this season, while the Ukrainian side rank last in the competition for total shots (10, level with Lille) and shots on target (1) through their opening two matches.
- In open play, Shakhtar have progressed the ball upfield slower than any other team in the Champions League this season (0.97 metres per second). Indeed, they’re one of only three sides who haven’t recorded a direct attack in the competition this term, along with Girona and PSV Eindhoven.
- Arsenal’s Kai Havertz has made the most high-intensity pressures in the final third of any player in the Champions League this season (57). Indeed, the most by a player in a single game in the competition this season was by Havertz, in his last outing versus PSG (37).
- Excluding own goals, Danylo Sikan has been directly involved in four of Shakhtar Donetsk’s last seven away goals in the Champions League (three goals and one assist).
- Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus has scored four Champions League goals against Shakhtar Donetsk, all while playing for Man City, including a hat-trick against them in November 2018. Only Cristiano Ronaldo (five) has more goals against Shakhtar in the competition.
- Bukayo Saka has scored five goals from eight shots on target for Arsenal in the Champions League. Since the start of last season, he is the player who’s overperformed his expected goals total by the biggest margin in the competition in this period (+3.27 – five goals from 1.73 xG).
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