Hello world! And don’t worry Arsenal, it’s only Barcelona away! Sure, they’ve won the Champions League in three of the last four seasons, and only missed one final since 2018, and they’re averaging 6.34 goals a game in Europe this season and 4.62 in all competitions, but it’s not like they’re perfect: they lost 2-1 at Real Sociedad just a few weeks ago. And yes, it’s true that they have lost no other games in the last year – that’s a run of one defeat in 53 – and even including that hiccup the aggregate scoreline of their last seven games is 34-3 (Arsenal’s is about-as-third-as-many-scored to about-three-times-as-many-conceded at 13-10), but they are demonstrably and recently beatable. Hold on to that. And also the fact that the Gunners have beaten Barcelona on three of the five occasions they have met in the Champions League, most recently in the 2025 final. And, for as long as possible, hold on to that clean sheet. “We play against a fantastic team with some very good players. They p