Arsenal vs Bayern Munich LIVE: Champions League team news, line-ups and more tonight

A reminder of how you can watch tonight’s Champions League tie.

Arsenal vs Bayern Munich kicks off at 8 pm BST, and the match will be shown live on TNT Sports 1, which subscribers can stream via the Discovery + app and website.

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A reminder that The Independent is also covering tonight’s other huge Champions League tie, with the first leg of Real Madrid vs Manchester City taking place at the Santiago Bernabeu.

You can follow all the build-up to that game below!

This week’s Champions League matches are set to take place as planned, with governing body Uefa issuing a statement on Tuesday to insist they are “aware” of threats allegedly being made in the build-up to the four fixtures regarding potential terrorist action.

Images circulating online had suggested that all four stadiums would be targeted across the two nights, with their origins unconfirmed but linked to the established terrorist organisation Isis.

“Uefa is aware of alleged terrorist threats made towards this week’s Uefa Champions League matches and is closely liaising with the authorities at the respective venues,” a statement from Uefa read after being contacted by The Independent. “All matches are planned to go ahead as scheduled with appropriate security arrangements in place.”

The Bayern boss, who managed Chelsea between 2021 and 2022, returns to London to face the Premier League leaders on Tuesday.

Tuchel’s side trail Bundesliga table-toppers Bayer Leverkusen by 16 points after Saturday’s 3-2 defeat at Heidenheim.

“Arsenal are currently the best team in the Premier League and that is deserved, all the data shows that,” Tuchel told a press conference on Monday.

“They are in great form and have been at the highest level for the last two seasons so it’s a massive test for us.

“We know about our own strengths and how we want to cause them pain. We know the Champions League is a competition where we have more experience over the last few years. We want to use it to our advantage.”

Another player returning to an old stomping ground is Bayern winger Serge Gnabry, who made a handful of appearances for the Gunners before returning to his home country, first with Werder Bremen and then with the Bavarian giants.

Gnabry played alongside current Gunners boss Arteta under Arsene Wenger after joining the north London club in 2012 at the age of 16.

And the German winger is relishing a reunion with mentor Mikel Arteta, having backed his former club to be one of European football’s leading sides for the foreseeable future.

“He’s now fully absorbed in his role as coach and thinks very strategically,” Gnabry said of Arteta, speaking to Bayern’s website.

“In my time, he was already an experienced player. He was the captain, a leader who spoke to everyone and communicated a lot.

“He was very helpful to us as young players back then. He built us up, always gave us good tips, always tried to guide us so that we stayed focused and gave everything.”

Much has been made of Harry Kane’s return to North London to face the team who were once his greatest rivals.

The 30-year-old has scored 38 goals in all competitions since swapping Spurs for Bavaria last summer and poses a serious threat to the Gunners’ aspirations of progressing in Europe.

Of course, Kane is Tottenham’s all-time record scorer, netting 280 goals in 435 appearances, including 14 in 19 outings against Arsenal.

But Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has stated that his side “should respect” Kane without fearing him.

“I don’t think we should fear anyone and we should focus on ourselves and the quality we have in our team,” said the Norwegian.

Though tonight’s game will be firmly on the minds of Arsenal players and fans alike, some will undoubtedly be dreaming of the next rounds and even a potential final in their home city.

And last month’s draw shows us the Gunners’ exact route to the final should they get past Bayern Munich over the two legs.

Bayern will host Mikel Arteta’s team in the second-leg at the Allianz Arena on 17 April, and if that goes to plan, Arsenal could be in for a crunch tie against Premier league title rivals Manchester City, or a potentially enthralling counter with 14-time champions Real Madrid.

Here’s all the info needed for Arsenal’s Champions League journey.

It comes after Bayern supporters threw fireworks onto the pitch during their 3-0 win over Lazio in the last-16, which triggered a one-match ban.

Bayern had been fined 40,000 euros and hit with a suspended ban on away supporters after fans set off fireworks during their win at Copenhagen in the group stages in December.

Bayern accepted the punishment and confirmed they would not appeal against Uefa’s decision, describing the ban on away supporters as a “big blow”.

Mikel Arteta is so meticulous in preparations that when it comes to huge games like this, he knows he doesn’t have to say much. All of the work has been done on the training ground, the Arsenal players having been drilled to target Bayern Munich’s soft centre. Arteta certainly knows what not to say. He won’t be mentioning the 10-2 aggregate defeat from the last time the two teams met, rightly describing it as “history” when inevitably asked on the eve of the game.

It just isn’t relevant to his current Arsenal players, since none were involved. It’s barely relevant to the current Bayern squad, since only five were involved.

That quintet, led by Thomas Muller and Joshua Kimmich, now have far bigger concerns and there is an acute awareness that this iteration of Arsenal could do similar to them. Thomas Tuchel has been fixating on the gaps in his squad, which he feels are a consequence of longer-term squad-building issues.

That points to the one way the 10-2 is relevant in framing this game. It displays how empires rise and fall in football, and could neatly bookend what happened in 2017.

That humiliation was the final sign that the Arsene Wenger era was over, and this quarter-final might just fully end this Bayern Munich dynasty.

Arsenal and Bayern Munich will go head-to-head in the last eight of the Champions League on Tuesday (8pm, TNT Sports 1).

Mikel Arteta’s men will put their Premier League title tilt on hold after going top of the table at the weekend.

Arsenal have not reached the semi-finals of this tournament since 2009, while Bayern will be looking to avoid a quarter-final elimination for the fourth successive season.

Football betting sites have the Gunners down as the favourites, but Bayern can never be written off in this competition.