Arsenal remain unbeaten against in the Atlético Madrid in the UEFA Champions League, winning 4-0 at the Emirates and drawing 1-1 at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium this season. Only two other managers have gone unbeaten in their first three games against Atlético boss Diego Simeone in the competition: Carlo Ancelotti and Maurizio Sarri (3 each).
Winless in their two games against Arsenal this season (D1 L1), Atlético Madrid last faced an opponent 3+ times in a single campaign without managing a victory in 2022-23, versus Real Madrid (D1 L2).
Arsenal are unbeaten in their last eight games against Spanish sides in the UEFA Champions League (W7 D1). Only one team has gone more consecutive games against Spanish opposition without losing in the competition (since 1992-93): Chelsea between March 2006 and April 2014 (16).
Atlético Madrid have lost six of their last seven away games against English sides in the UEFA Champions League (W1), including each of the last four in a row. Their defeat at the Emirates Stadium earlier this season (0-4 in October 2025) remains their joint-heaviest loss in the European Cup/Champions League (along with five other defeats by four goals).
When avoiding defeat away from home in the first leg of a European Cup/UEFA Champions League knockout stage tie (over two legs), Arsenal have gone on to progress in eight of their previous 10, including the last five in a row. Only versus Benfica in 1991-92 (round of 16) and Chelsea in 2003-04 (quarter-final) did they fail to progress in that scenario.
Arsenal are looking to reach their first UEFA Champions League final since 2006 – should they do so, it will be the longest period between European Cup/Champions League finals by a team in the competition since Atlético Madrid in 2014 (40 years), and longest by an English side since Liverpool in 2005 (also 20 years).
Atlético Madrid could reach the final of the UEFA Champions League for the third time under Diego Simeone (previously in 2014 and 2016). Only two managers have ever reached more finals in the competition with the same club: Alex Ferguson with Manchester United and Marcello Lippi with Juventus (4 each).
Arsenal have only lost two of their last 23 matches in the UEFA Champions League (W17 D4), while both of those defeats came against reigning champions Paris SG (both legs of last season’s semi-finals). The Gunners are yet to lose a game in the current edition (P13 W10 D3), and could go 14 consecutive matches without defeat for the first time their European Cup/Champions League history.
Arsenal average just 0.65 goals conceded per game under Mikel Arteta in the UEFA Champions League (24 conceded in 37 games). This is the lowest goals conceded per game ratio for any manager with 20+ games in the competition, ahead of Frank Rijkaard (0.68).
Atlético Madrid’s Julián Álvarez has averaged a goal or assist every 80 minutes in his UEFA Champions League career (34 in 2,710 minutes – 25 goals, 9 assists). Of strikers with 20+ goal involvements in the competition, only Erling Haaland (74) has a better ratio.
Along with having 14 goal involvements in 14 games in the UEFA Champions League this season (10 goals, 4 assists), Atlético Madrid’s Julián Álvarez leads all players in this edition for high-intensity pressures (899). In fact, the Argentinean is the player who has accounted for the highest share of his team’s high-intensity pressures in the competition this term (16.1% – 899/5,573).
Along with completing the most passes (83), Arsenal’s Declan Rice led all players in the first leg of this tie for line-breaking passes (12) and progressive carries (12). Indeed, Rice has had two knockout stage games with 10+ line-breaking passes and 10+ progressive carries in this edition (away to Bayer Leverkusen & Atlético Madrid); the only midfielder with more in knockout stage matches this term is Vitinha (3).
Based on the xG of shots on target faced (ex. OGs), Arsenal’s David Raya has prevented more goals than any other goalkeeper in the UEFA Champions League since the start of last season (+9.9 – 13 conceded from 22.9 xG on target), as well as having the most clean sheets of any goalkeeper in this period (14).
Atlético Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann could make his 128th and final ever appearance in major European competition (currently on 127); the fourth-most ever by a French player, only behind Karim Benzema (152), Thierry Henry (135) and Claude Makélélé (130). Griezmann is also one of only four Frenchmen with 50+ goals in major European competition (50), along with Karim Benzema (90), Kylian Mbappé (78) and Thierry Henry (58).
Arsenal’s Viktor Gyökeres could become just the third player to score in both legs of a UEFA Champions League semi-final for a Premier League team, after Sadio Mané for Liverpool (2021-22 v Villarreal and 2017-18 v Roma) and Riyad Mahrez for Manchester City (2020-21 v Paris SG).