Champions League Matchday 7: Inter vs Arsenal facts

Arsenal take the only remaining perfect record in the 2025/26 UEFA Champions League to Inter – the last side to deny them victory at this stage of the competition.

The Gunners have six wins from six ahead of their trip to San Siro and were three points clear in the league phase standings at the start of Matchday 7; Inter are sixth on 12 points (W4 L2).

Last match

A Hakan Çalhanoğlu penalty three minutes into first-half added time gave Inter a 1-0 victory against Arsenal at San Siro on Matchday 4 in 2024/25; the English side have since won all ten league phase fixtures.

The teams' only other encounters came in the 2003/04 group stage, Inter winning 3-0 at Highbury on Matchday 1 before Thierry Henry scored twice in a 5-1 Matchday 5 victory in Milan.

A 0-1 loss against Liverpool on Matchday 6 ended Inter's four-game winning run at home to Premier League visitors in the group stage/league phase.

The Nerazzurri have won six of their last eight games against English clubs at San Siro (L2).

Last season's loss at Inter ended Arsenal's three-game unbeaten run in Italy (W2 D1), where they managed one win in their first seven visits (D3 L3) but have six in the subsequent 12 (D2 L4).

The Gunners have six victories in their last nine games against Serie A sides (D1 L2).

Inter

This is the Nerazzurri's 19th appearance in the Champions League, and an eighth in succession.

Inter reached a second final in three seasons in 2024/25, but went down 0-5 against Paris Saint-Germain in Munich – the biggest final defeat in European Cup history.

Arsenal 

Having not featured in the Champions League proper between 2016/17 and 2023/24, Arsenal are making their third successive appearance.

The Gunners reached the semi-finals last season – their best run in the competition since 2008/09 – before a 1-3 aggregate defeat by eventual champions Paris Saint-Germain.

Key stats

Inter midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan played for Arsenal in 2018 and 2019, scoring nine times in 59 appearances. His first goal for the Gunners was at San Siro, in a 2-0 win against AC Milan in the UEFA Europa League round of 16 first leg on 8 March 2018.

Inter have lost their last two Champions League matches; they have never suffered three straight defeats in a single edition of the competition proper.

The Matchday 6 defeat by Liverpool ended Inter's 18-game unbeaten home Champions League run (W15 D3), since a 0-2 group stage defeat against Bayern München in September 2022.

Arsenal were 3-0 victors at Club Brugge on Matchday 6 and are the only team to win their first six league phase matches; this is the first time they have started with six successive wins in the competition proper.

The Gunners have never won seven European games in a row.

Arsenal have conceded only three goals in winning their ten league phase games since losing at Inter.

The Londoners have lost only two of their last 27 group stage/league phase matches (W21 D4).

Arsenal have kept 12 clean sheets in their last 17 group stage/league phase games.

Arsenal have scored 399 European Cup goals.

Gabriel Martinelli has scored in his last five Champions League appearances – a first for an Arsenal player.