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Arsenal bushed Bayern Munich for the archetypal clip successful a decennary to support their 100% grounds successful this season’s Champions League with a 3-1 triumph sending them apical of the radical connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025).
Jurrien Timber headed Mikel Arteta’s broadside successful beforehand from a country aft 22 minutes lone for Bayern teen Lennart Karl to equalise successful benignant earlier halftime.
Arsenal dominated the 2nd fractional though and showed their immense squad extent arsenic substitutes Noni Madueke and Gabriel Martinelli scored the goals to marque it 5 wins from five.
It proved a quiescent instrumentality to northbound London for prolific Bayern striker Harry Kane arsenic his broadside suffered their archetypal decision of the play successful each competitions.
With Inter Milan dropping points, Arsenal are present the lone squad successful the contention with a maximum 15 points and look each but assured of a spot successful the past 16.
Six points wide astatine the apical of the Premier League and Bundesliga respectively and boasting flawless records aft 4 games successful the Champions League, Arsenal and Bayern Munich person been Europe's stand-out teams this season.
The sides met successful the quarter-finals 2 years agone with Bayern coming retired connected top, but Arsenal person moved to different level since that clash and went into Wednesday's crippled connected a 15-match unbeaten tally successful each competitions.
With last-16 spots already looking harmless for some clubs, the 15th gathering betwixt them lacked jeopardy but bragging rights and intelligence blows were up for grabs.
It was Arsenal who emerged with both, acknowledgment to a triumph that volition reverberate astir Europe.
Bayern, backed by a vociferous travelling army, looked assured aboriginal connected but were stunned successful the 22nd infinitesimal erstwhile Arsenal scored the benignant of devastatingly elemental extremity that has go their trademark.
Bukayo Saka swung successful a corner, Myles Lewis-Skelly got the slightest of nudges connected Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer and Timber roseate to glimpse a header into the net.
The pb lasted lone 10 minutes though arsenic Bayern responded with different determination close disconnected the grooming ground.
After a agelong passing sequence, Joshua Kimmich's raking walk recovered Michael Olise whose volleyed walk crossed the look of extremity was met by 17-year-old Karl who became the archetypal subordinate to people against Arsenal successful the Champions League this season.
While Kane was mostly peripheral, Karl was awesome and should astir apt person scored again aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional erstwhile helium burst into the country but changeable consecutive astatine goalkeeper David Raya.
After that Arsenal took charge.
Mikel Merino went adjacent erstwhile helium nodded a header down and conscionable wide from a Declan Rice corner, Cristhian Mosquera was denied by Neuer and the keeper past saved from Rice aft the midfielder's marauding run.
Bayern’s defence was creaking though and Arsenal's unit paid disconnected successful the 69th infinitesimal erstwhile Riccardo Calafiori fired successful a transverse from the near that chap substitute Madueke turned successful for his archetypal extremity for the club.
Neuer than had a infinitesimal to hide erstwhile helium charged retired of his extremity 8 minutes aboriginal trying to chopped retired Eberechi Eze’s walk but got obscurity adjacent the shot and Martinelli was near with the elemental task of shooting into an bare net.
