Watch Partizan Belgrade vs Arsenal live stream
Arsenal travel to Serbia tonight in their first away journey in this season's champions league looking to bounce back after their surprise 3-2 defeat to West Brom at the weekend. In contrast Belgrade are storming away this season in their league with 5 wins out of 6 matches and experienced Partizan defender, Mladen Krstajic, believes the club are ready to turn over the gunners tonight and send a shock through Europe despite the team losing their first fixture 1-0 to Shakhtar Donetsk in the last round of matches.
Krstajic, 36, said: "Against Arsenal, we will need to give even more than we produced against Shakhtar. We can't afford to let our performance level drop and I hope we will manage to achieve a result that will announce our name throughout Europe." He added: "It is hard to say who their most dangerous player is. The manager Arsene Wenger has a number of good players around 20 years of age. I don't know what line-up they will put out but all the players will be tough opponents. We will need total focus to have a chance of getting into the match."
Arsenal will have to start without goalkeeper Manuel Almunia as well as Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott. The team will be desperately wanting to put in a better performance at the weekend and this is reiterated by boss Arsene Wenger who said:"The whole squad was very very low because we knew we had a good opportunit to win this game against West Brom and we didn't catch it. We have to stand up for what happened to us. It is our first defeat of the season and I think we have to take a perspective and a distance with that. We have done extremely well since the start of the season so now we will regroup. I think we rushed our game and we didn't respect the priorities in our game and that's why we lost. But we gave a lot and I believe we will have a good game because we are a good team."
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