Atalanta vs Arsenal.
This match seems quite interesting, Atalanta is a team that was a Europa League finalist last season. Now, Gian Piero Gasperini's squad will host Arsenal at Gewiss Stadium, Atalanta's home base. Meanwhile, Arsenal, this is their second season back competing in the Champions League. Of course, Arteta has more attention for this season. However, even though Atalanta's performance is not that good, it is not an easy job for Araenal to defeat them. To be honest, I don't really know the Atalanta players, but some of them will be absent from this match, whether they are important players or not. In Arsenal's camp, Odegaard's absence is very important for their midfield. Apart from being the team captain, he is a smart midfielder. Arsenal's odds are quite good at @1.85, while the home team is at @4.20. Obviously, I choose Arsenal even though they won't play full core players.
Monaco vs Barcelona.
Monaco has performed quite well in their domestic league, they have not been defeated in their 4 matches. In this match, Monaco will host Barcelona at Stade Luis, Monaco's home ground. Barcelona, will certainly not play Olmo due to injury. Lately, Olmo has been in the spotlight when his debut with Barcelona immediately played well. Instead, Flick might play Torres. I'm sure Flick will aim for victory over Monaco, so he will definitely continue to apply the same system and pattern. Appearing with an attacking pattern throughout the match, providing high pressing. I'm not sure if Monaco will play openly, because that will make it easier for Hansi Flick's system to work. Based on the betting exchange, Barca is more favored and that's natural. However, this is a new match for Barcelona's young players. Even so, Barca still has a great chance of winning this match. My prediction, a score of 3-0 victory for Barcelona. btw, my two favorite teams play at the same time, it's really confusing to watch which one.
Arsenal and Atalanta will be an interesting match for us to watch, I don't see any other match that brings together two teams that are balanced at the moment so indeed the match between Atalanta vs Arsenal will be the main match today, so far Arsenal has a bad record when facing the Italian team and we remember how Napoli, Milan and Roma have destroyed them when playing in Italy, the performance and bad record still cannot be broken by Arsenal to this day, but looking at the performance and ability of the two teams at the moment it is of course difficult to guess who will win the match later, Atalanta who last season managed to win the Europa League trophy of course has a very big ambition to maintain their performance in European competitions and Arsenal should be aware atalanta strength today.
Although Atalanta have started the season poorly in the league this season but Arteta cannot underestimate Atalanta in the match, because thier often perform spartan when playing at home, I think there is no other option at the moment for Arteta to field the reserve squad given some of their injured players, but Declan Rice which playing in today match will certainly give Arsenal fans a bit of hope to see their midfieldcan strong and solid again.
My prediction is that one of the two teams will win the match with a narrow score of 1-0 or 2-1.