Arsenal handed boost as PSG are without key player tomorrow

Arsenal host Paris Saint-Germain tomorrow in their second game of the group phase of the Champions League, and the French club will be without Ousmane Dembele.

The France international has been dropped by manager Luis Enrique for the trip to London.

Dembele and Enrique had an argument after the game against Rennes on Friday night and Enrique was displeased with the forward’s attitude.

The Gunners started their 2024-25 Champions League campaign with a goalless draw at Atalanta on September 19, while PSG left it late to beat Girona 1-0 at the Parc des Princes.

Arsenal will be desperate to return to winning ways, and facing a PSG team without Dembele is a huge boost.

The former Barcelona star has bagged four goals and four assists in seven games across all competitions for the Ligue 1 club this season, and being without him is a major blow.

Arsenal face Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter Milan, Sporting Lisbon, AS Monaco, Dinamo Zagreb and Girona in their other league phase games.

A victory tomorrow will help boost their chances of automatically progressing to the round of 16.

They were dumped out by Bayern Munich in the quarter-final last season and will look to go as far as they can this term.