33 min: Saibari has a dig from 25 yards. The ball flies 25 yards over the bar. Bayern already reduced to this.

32 min: Bayern are struggling to play out from the back. Arsenal's press too much for them. A couple of long hoicks forward that come to nothing. Mikel Arteta will be right now.

30 min: … and sends it long. This time it's Guimaraes level with the far post, six yards out. He shins his volley wide left. He joins Calafiori in the Should Have Scored column, and from exactly the same blade of grass as well. Bayern haven't dealt with these corners at all.

29 min: Bayern haven't responded to that blow. They've not managed to get forward at all. And now Madueke probes down the right to win another Arsenal corner. Odegaard comes across to take …

27 min: The goal was initially ruled out for offside, but VAR double-checked and turns out Stanišić was playing Eze on. The substitute hasn't taken long to make his presence felt. And what a pass forward by Odegaard!

Odegaard whistles a long pass down the left to release Eze. As simple as that! Eze enters the box, takes his time, lets the ball bounce twice, and larrups a low bouncer across Neuer and into the bottom right!

23 min: Kane quarterbacks another fine long pass from deep, finding Saibari inside the Arsenal box down the inside-right channel. Saibari can't control. Goal kick. Bayern must wish Kane could somehow launch these passes to himself.

21 min: Bayern launch a quick counter, Kane taking the goal kick, spraying a pass down the left for Davies. The ball's shuttled to Gnabry down the inside-right channel. Gnabry enters the box and shoots low and hard towards the bottom left. Raya saves well, but that should have been a goal as well. Somewhere in the multiverse, it's 1-1 after a short-order exchange of goals.

20 min: Odegaard swings in from the right. Neuer comes for the ball and flaps. The ball drops to Calafiori, six yards out, level with the far stick. Calafiori should score, but leans back and hoicks over. What a miss!

19 min: Madueke and Timber combine down the right to earn the second first corner of the evening. Odegaard wanders over to take.

17 min: Davies dribbles hard down the left and enters the Arsenal box. Gabriel sticks to his shoulder, so Davies can't get a shot away from a tight angle. Gabriel flicks the ball out for a corner … but Bayern strangely don't get it.

15 min: Kim pings a speculative pass down the left for Davies, who nearly manages to nip past Timber at high speed, only for the defender to give him a gentle tap on the back, one that causes him to take an extra step that sends both ball and player over the byline. Goal kick. Saucy defending.

13 min: Havertz goes into the book for a late slide into Stanišić. Things suddenly not going Arsenal's way.

12 min: "Word precludes me from tuning in on Paramount+ in the States," begins Jeff Necessary, Gunner in North Carolina, "so keeping the MBM open for occasional checks. Given the way Arsenal first halves have gone lately, I may not miss much for a while." Well, Jeff, you've got that damn straight at the moment.

10 min: Saka is able to get up, but he's limping heavily and not happy. He blows out in frustration as he hobbles off. Eze comes on in his place.

8 min: Saka spins Davies down the right, but the Canadian international comes back at his man to ensure the Arsenal winger doesn't enter the box. Saka nips infield instead, then takes a clumsy prod at the ball before grabbing his thigh and crumpling to the floor in pain. This doesn't look great.

6 min: Saka and Havertz combine down the inside-right channel, the latter entering the Bayern box. Havertz scuffs a cross; Saka can't force the ball home from the middle of a melee on the edge of the six-yard box. Bayern clear, but Arsenal will be very happy with these early attacks.

4 min: Raya passes long. Timber cushions a header in from the right for Saka, who shuttles the ball further across towards Madueke. For a second, it looks like Bayern have been opened up with a couple of simple passes, but Madueke clanks into Laimer and the danger is gone.

2 min: Pinball + hot potato = shapeless first 120 seconds.

Vincent Kompany and Mikel Arteta worked with each other at Manchester City. When the former emerges from the tunnel, the pair embrace warmly and have a quick catch-up. And then Arsenal get the game started.

The teams are out! Bayern are in one of their all-red phases, while Arsenal are harking back to the early 90s with a blue version of the famous bruised banana. Vincent Kompany is in the house, by the way, having recovered from a virus that threatened to keep him in bed. And so is Germany boss Jurgen Klopp, in the stands flashing that smile and throwing his arm around the shoulder of another erstwhile Liverpool manager, Rafael Benitez. Everyone having a good time, it seems, and looking forward to this big showdown, including Arsenal fan Charles Antaki … well, kind of: "Pretty dismal, the fare served up in the game against Forest. But! Pundits have assured us that because Bayern are going to be on the attack, Arsenal will be free to entertain us with a dazzling display of skill, ambition, irresistible cheeks and above all, goals. Not much to say about that except We Shall See." We'll be off in a minute or two.

Mikel Arteta speaks to TNT Sports. "We're gonna have to play, I expect, three or four different games at different stages … we need everybody ready because we need to change and adapt to that … freshness … very excited … we have talked about our enthusiasm for playing on these big stages … that's where you want to get tested … play with a lot of courage … a lot of aggression … be decisive … we have prepared for what we have to do."

There are plenty of other Champions League matches about to kick off tonight. Sarah Rendell has you covered in the latest edition of your super soaraway Clocko. Get on it!

Shoogly Peg news. Michael Carrick's coat is hanging on one. The first big result of the evening is in, and Simon Burnton has all the details.

More scene-setting. Courtesy of our man David Hytner in Munich.

Look at that bench; Arsenal's squad goes deep. Which doesn't necessarily explain the headline below … but it can't not help. The good people o' Opta explain all.

Bayern are without Joshua Kimmich following a death in his immediate family. Harry Kane leads the line, while former Liverpool winger Luis Diaz is on the bench. Michael Olise is suspended following his two-yellows-in-two-minutes fiasco during the 3-3 draw at Viking.

Arsenal make two changes to their starting XI following the staunch 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest. Noni Madueke and Jurriën Timber replace Eberechi Eze and Ben White, who drop to the bench.

Neuer, Laimer, Upamecano, Kim, Stanisic, Pavlovic, Bischof, Gnabry, Saibari, Davies, Kane.
Subs: Ulreich, Urbig, Tah, Brown, Diaz, Ito, Boey, Ndiaye, Karl, Binder.

Raya, Timber, Konsa, Gabriel, Calafiori, Odegaard, Rice, Guimaraes, Saka, Havertz, Madueke.
Subs: Arrizabalaga, Meslier, Mosquera, White, Eze, Gyokeres, Merino, Zubimendi, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman.

Davide Massa (Italy).

Arsenal's last three visits to Munich have ended badly. In reverse order: 0-1 (2024), 1-5 (2017), 1-5 (2015). All three worthy of a large bräukeller-infused GULP. On the other hand, Arsenal won the last meeting between these two sides, 3-1 last November at the Emirates, and they go into this match having won 10 of their 11 games in all competitions so far this season. Bayern by contrast aren't at their usual steamrolling best: OK, they've just mullered RB Leipzig 6-1, but before that they dropped Bundesliga points at Augsburg (2-2) and should really have been beaten by Viking in a 3-3 draw last week. So both teams have positives to draw on and negatives to try their best to ignore. Kick-off is at 8pm BST. It's on!