If Arsenal’s attack is the resistible force, perhaps PSV’s defence is the movable object. A tie of teams meeting for the third consecutive year may be a clash of opposites. The Dutch champions can both score and concede; the perennial English runners-up sometimes do neither.

Jurrien Timber has called Arsenal’s trip to PSV Eindhoven a chance to “change the narrative” after a difficult couple of weeks for the club.

Arsenal have only the Champions League to play for with the Premier League title seemingly out of reach; Mikel Arteta needs to fix an injury-hit and makeshift attack as the Gunners face PSV Eindhoven