A quick reminder of why the Emirates will seem particularly full of home fans this evening.

Bayern Munich will not be allowed away fans at the Emirates when they take on Arsenal tonight, after Bayern supporters threw fireworks onto the pitch during their 3-0 win over Lazio in the last-16. This triggered a one-match ban.

With 30 minutes until kick-off, a final reminder of how you can watch tonight’s game.

Arsenal vs Bayern Munich kicks off at 8pm BST, and it will be shown live on TNT Sports 1, which subscribers can stream via the Discovery + app and website.

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Mikel Arteta is so meticulous in preparations that when it comes to huge games like this, he knows he doesn’t have to say much. All of the work has been done on the training ground, the Arsenal players having been drilled to target Bayern Munich’s soft centre. Arteta certainly knows what not to say. He won’t be mentioning the 10-2 aggregate defeat from the last time the two teams met, rightly describing it as “history” when inevitably asked on the eve of the game.

It just isn’t relevant to his current Arsenal players, since none were involved. It’s barely relevant to the current Bayern squad, since only five were involved.

That quintet, led by Thomas Muller and Joshua Kimmich, now have far bigger concerns and there is an acute awareness that this iteration of Arsenal could do similar to them. Thomas Tuchel has been fixating on the gaps in his squad, which he feels are a consequence of longer-term squad-building issues.

That points to the one way the 10-2 is relevant in framing this game. It displays how empires rise and fall in football, and could neatly bookend what happened in 2017.

With around half an hour until kick-off, read Miguel Delaney’s preview of tonight’s game, as Arsenal look to put one foot in the Champions league semi-finals.

Thomas Tuchel has made four changes to the Bayern side that lost 3-2 to newly promoted Heidenheim at the weekend.

Manuel Neuer comes in for Sven Ulreich in goal, while both centre-backs are changed – Eric Dier and Matthijs De Ligt are in for Kim Min-jae and Dayot Upamecano.

On the right wing, Leroy Sane replaces Thomas Muller.

BAYERN SUBS: Upamecano, Kim, Coman, Choupo-Moting, Zaragoza, Peretz, Guerreiro, Muller, Ulreich, Tel, Mazraoui, Pavlovic.

So it’s two changes for Arsenal from the weekend’s win against Brighton.

Jakub Kiwior and Gabriel Martinelli come in for Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus.

The midfield of Rice, Jorginho and Odegaard stays the same, while Kai Havertz starts against a team that reportedly wanted to sign him in the summer.

ARSENAL SUBS: Ramsdale, Partey, Gabriel Jesus, Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Tomiyasu, Trossard, Vieira, Nelson, Elneny, Hein, Zinchenko.

ARSENAL XI: Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Kiwior; Odegaard, Jorginho, Rice; Saka, Havertz, Martinelli.

BAYERN XI: Neuer; Kimmich, Dier, De Ligt, Davies; Laimer, Goretzka; Sane, Musiala, Gnabry; Kane.

With the crowd behind them and their form in the league, it is hard to look beyond Arsenal, but Bayern only have the Champions League to play for after dropping out of the title race. 

Arsenal 2-1 Bayern Munich.

Bayern had a similarly straightforward start to their Champions League campaign, easily progressing through their group before a small slip-up in their first round of 16 game and then a turnaround in the home tie to ensure qualification.

The Bavarian side came top of a group that included Manchester United, FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray, winning all but one of their games.

In the round of 16 the Germans faced a potentially difficult tie against a spirited Lazio side, with the first game in Rome ending 1-0 to the Italians. But Bayern turned it around in the home leg, winning 3-0 thanks to two goals from Harry Kane and another from Bayern veteran Thomas Muller.

Bayern’s Champions League results this season:

Bayern 4-3 Manchester United

Manchester United 0-1 Bayern

The home side have had a fairly straightforward route to this stage of the competition, though they did require a penalty shootout to advance from their round of 16 tie against Portuguese side FC Porto. The Gunners won 4-2 on penalties, having come back from being 1-0 down in the first leg.

In the group stages, Arsenal were paired against Sevilla, Dutch champions-elect PSV Eindhoven and French side RC Lens.

The Gunners won four, drew one and lost one of their group games, the sole loss coming against Lens.

Mikel Arteta’s side won all three of their home games, including a 6-0 drubbing of Lens, a comfortable 2-0 win over Sevilla and a 4-0 win against fellow round of 16 side PSV.

Arsenal’s Champions League results this season:

Arsenal 1-0 FC Porto (4-2 on penalties)