We have been drawn against PSV Eindhoven in the last-16 of the Champions League.
The draw for the remainder of the tournament has taken place in Switzerland, and the outcome is a two-legged tie against the Dutch side next month.
The first leg will take place at the Philips Stadion on March 4-5, with the decider to take place at Emirates Stadium the following week on March 11-12.
Should we advance past PSV to get to the quarter-finals, we’ll face either Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid, with the first leg to be played at Emirates Stadium. Our potential semi-final opponents could be any of Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain, Club Brugge or Aston Villa who were all drawn on our side of the bracket.
PSV are currently second in the Eredivisie, two points behind leaders Ajax. They made it to the last-16 by finishing 14th in the Champions League table with four wins and two draws from their eight matches. That set up a play-off round clash with Juventus, and they overcame a 2-1 first-leg loss by winning 3-1 after extra-time at home in the second leg.
We have faced PSV in competitive action on 10 occasions, and will now have done so in each of the past three seasons.
In 2002/03, goals from Gilberto Silva, Freddie Ljungberg and a Thierry Henry brace secured a 4-0 win in Eindhoven, before a 0-0 draw at Highbury in the group stages; the same stage that we faced each other in 2004/05 when an own goal secured us a home win before a 1-1 draw in the Netherlands, when Lauren and Patrick Vieira both received red cards.
We were drawn against each other again in 2006/07 in the round of 16. PSV won the first leg 1-0 at home, before securing a 1-1 draw at Emirates Stadium after Alex scored at both ends to eliminate us from the competition.
All those games were in the Champions League, but 2022/23 saw us paired in the Europa League group stages. A Granit Xhaka strike saw us secure a 1-0 win at home, but we fell to a 2-0 loss a week later out in Eindhoven when Joey Veerman and Luuk de Jong netted.
Last season saw us mark our return to the Champions League in style with a 4-0 thrashing of the Dutch giants on matchday one when Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard, Gabriel Jesus and Martin Odegaard all found the net, while we drew 1-1 out in Eindhoven when Eddie Nketiah’s opener was cancelled out by Yorbe Vertessen.
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