MATCH FACTS This is the first ever competitive meeting between Arsenal and Monaco. Auxerre are the last French team to beat Arsenal, it was in the 2002/03 Champions League group stages (2-1 at Highbury). Arsenal are the only team, alongside Real Madrid, to have reached the knockout stages of the Champions League in every season since the new format in 2003/04. They have however been knocked out in the last 16 in each of the last four seasons. Arsenal have always knocked out French clubs in European competition : in the 1969/70 Fairs Cup third round against Rouen, in the 1993/94 Cup Winners Cup semi-finals against PSG, in the 1994/95 Cup Winners Cup quarter finals against Auxerre and in the...
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