• Arsenal have won all seven Champions League matches

• Kairat are bottom of the standings and without a win

• Recommended bet: Gabriel Martinelli anytime scorer

Top plays bottom in the final round of Champions League league phase action, with Arsenal expected to make light work of visitors Kairat Almaty.

The Gunners have played seven, won seven, in contrast to Kazakh champions Kairat, who have mustered a solitary point from a home draw with Pafos in their first-ever venture into this stage of the competition.

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Team news

Declan Rice and Mikel Merino are suspended, denying the latter a start, while Max Dowman is out and Riccardo Calafiori a major doubt.

Arteta will rest a number of his stars with a top-two finish in the league phase secured, which should mean starts for the likes of Christian Mosquera, Christian Norgaard, Eberechi Eze and Victor Gyokeres.

For Kairat, forward Dastan Satpayev still has not returned to winter training after injury and midfielder Giorgi Zaria is a doubt. New signing Jaakko Oksanen is not registered.

The stats

Arsenal are top of the Champions League with seven wins out of seven, the only 100 per cent record in the tournament and they are guaranteed a top-two finish.

This is Kairat's 16th Champions League fixture of a campaign which started back on July 8th. They have failed to win any of the last 10 and failed to win any of seven away games (lost five, drawn two).

The Gunners have lost only three of 35 competitive matches this season and failed to score in only three games.

Gabriel Martinelli is Arsenal's top scorer in this season's Champions League with five goals, the same number as Kairat have scored in total.

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Prediction

Arsenal have not put a foot wrong during the league stage of the 2025/26 Champions League, which puts them in a privileged position in their final game at home to Kairat.

With a top-two spot guaranteed and a home second leg throughout the knockout stage nailed down, Gunners' boss Arteta can make sweeping changes to his team following Sunday's 3-2 home loss to Man Utd.

Expect a raft of Arteta's fringe players to get big minutes at home to Kairat, who have nothing to play for.

Rafael Urazbakhtin's men, who started their Champions League schedule in the first qualifying round in July, have mustered just one point from a 0-0 home draw with Pafos during a campaign where they have not been disgraced, but are fairly obviously out of their depth.

A home win, notwithstanding Arteta's personnel tweaks, still looks non-negotiable, with Gabriel Martinelli set to shine.

Martinelli is enjoying a fabulous European campaign with five goals already. Indeed, he has scored eight cup goals this term, with a hat-trick bagged in this month's 4-1 win at Portsmouth in the FA Cup.

The Brazilian will scare the life out of Kairat's rusty defence and we know he can find the net.

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