Arsenal's Champions League opponents previewed - Lens, PSV and Sevilla
group, but there are fewer pushovers in the top-tier competition, and Arsenal are unlikely to rotate as much as they did in the Europa League last year.
Under Arsene Wenger, they qualified for the Champions League 17 years in a row between 2000 and 2017. The closest they came to winning the competition was in 2005-06 when they lost toThat was a period when Arsenal were fading. Mikel Arteta’s side, on the other hand, are building, and they will fancy their chances of not just making it through Group B but of topping it.Arsenal are going back to the start when they travel to northern France.
Having spent five years in Ligue 2, Lens won promotion in 2019-20 under current manager Frank Haise. The Frenchman had only been a youth coach at Rennes and Lorient before being promoted from Lens B to the senior side, but he oversaw two seventh-place finishes before being runners-up to Paris Saint-Germain last season.They finished a single point behind a team boasting
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Champions League group-stage draw: Manchester United drawn with Harry Kane's Bayern MunichMan Utd get Bayern Munich, Galatasaray, FC Copenhagen; Arsenal with Sevilla, PSV, Lens; Newcastle get PSG, Dortmund, AC Milan; Man City with Leipzig, Red Star Belgrade, Young Boys; Celtic get Feyenoord, Atletico Madrid, Lazio; group stage begins on September 19, final at Wembley on June 1
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