Slavia Prague vs Arsenal: Champions League preview, 4 November
Arsenal are priced at 1.25 in Prague, but both sides have shown they can find the net lately. We look past the 1X2 and lean towards both teams to score at 1.93.
Slavia Prague welcome 
Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday, 4 November 2026 at 20:00 GMT. The prices make Arsenal clear favourites, and the table backs that up. The more interesting question, to our eyes, is whether Slavia can get on the scoresheet.
What's at stake
The two sides sit at opposite ends of the league phase standings. Arsenal are 9th with 7 points from 3 games and a goal difference of 4, level on points with 10th-placed Stuttgart and one behind 8th-placed Bayern Munich, both of whom have a game more played.
Slavia Prague are 32nd with 1 point from 3 games and a goal difference of -3. Fenerbahce are a place above them on 2 points, while Viking, in 33rd, are also on 1 point. For Slavia, this reads as a match where any return would be welcome. You can follow the wider picture on our Champions League page.
Recent form
Slavia's sequence reads W W D D D. The latest two were emphatic: a 5-0 win at Jablonec in the Czech Liga on 31 October and a 4-0 home win over Brno in the Czechia Cup on 27 October. Before that came three draws: 1-1 at home to Mlada Boleslav, 2-2 away at Fenerbahce in this competition, and 0-0 at home to Hradec Kralove.
Over a 10-game sample, Slavia average 2.2 goals scored and 0.7 conceded per game, with 5 clean sheets. Both teams scored in 40% of those games, and 50% went over 2.5 goals.
Arsenal's sequence is D W D W D. They won 1-0 at Liverpool in the Premier League on 1 November and beat Everton 2-0 at home on 24 October. The draws were 2-2 against Real Madrid, 1-1 at Fleetwood in the EFL Cup and 2-2 at Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League.
Across their 10-game sample, Arsenal average 1.8 goals scored and 1.1 conceded, with 4 clean sheets. Both teams scored in 50% of those matches, and 60% went over 2.5 goals.
Head-to-head
In 5 meetings, Slavia Prague have 0 wins, there have been 2 draws and Arsenal have won 3. The average is 3.2 goals per game, with 60% going over 2.5 goals, but both teams scored in only 20%.
The most recent meeting, on 4 November 2025 in this competition, ended Slavia Prague 0-3 Arsenal. Before that came a 0-4 in Prague and a 1-1 in London in the UEFA Europa League in April 2021, and a 0-0 in Prague back in November 2007. That low both-teams-to-score rate is the strongest argument against our pick, and it's worth keeping in mind.
What the prices say
The best 1X2 prices are 12.72 for a Slavia Prague win, 6.33 for the draw and 1.25 for Arsenal. Those translate to implied chances of roughly 8% for the home side, 15% for the draw and 77% for the visitors.
That is a strong vote of confidence in Arsenal, and nothing in the table or the head-to-head contradicts it. At 1.25, though, there isn't much in the away win from a value point of view.
Our pick: both teams to score – Yes at 1.93
Rather than the result, we prefer the goals angle: both teams to score at a best price of 1.93, which implies around 52%.
The case rests on a few things. Slavia have found the net regularly lately, including a 2-2 at Fenerbahce in this competition, and they average 2.2 goals per game over their sample. Arsenal, meanwhile, conceded in their draws with Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Fleetwood, and kept 4 clean sheets in 10.
The counter-argument is real: the 0-0 with Hradec Kralove, Slavia's own 40% both-teams-to-score rate and that 20% figure in the head-to-head all point the other way. So this is a modest lean, not a strong edge. Full numbers are on the match page, and you can see how our selections have fared on our track record.
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