Athletic Club take on Arsenal in the league stage Matchday 1 of the 2025/2026 UEFA Champions League. Here’s everything you need to know about kickoff times and where to watch the clash on TV or via streaming in the USA.

Sporting CP playmaker Pedro Gonçalves warned that it took time for the whole team to adjust to Viktor Gyökeres’s preferred style of play which didn’t suit an approach based around short passing—precisely the system that Mikel Arteta has painstakingly implemented at Arsenal over the last half-decade.

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And now agent of Madueke’s former Chelsea team-mate, Jackson, has revealed that the Senegal international – who signed on loan for Bayern Munich in the summer with the German club having an obligation to sign the player for €65m – heaped praise on the new Arsenal signing.