Joshua Kimmich feels Arsenal clash will be toughest test of the season for Bayern Munich

With their 2-1 win over Paris Saint-Germain within the Champions League because of a primary half brace from Luis Diaz, Bayern Munich made it 16 wins from as many matches throughout all competitions to start out the 2025/26 season. They’ve already damaged the file set by AC Milan again within the 1992/93 season after they began their season with 13 straight wins, and Vincent Kompany’s facet confirmed they may do it in opposition to the defending Champions League champions with solely 10 males within the second half after Diaz was despatched off for his rash problem that injured Achraf Hakimi.

Bayern is high of the Bundesliga desk, high of the Champions League desk, and thru to the spherical of 16 of the DFB-Pokal and so they have proven no indicators of slowing down any time quickly. As a bonus, each Jamal Musiala and Alphonso Davies are edging nearer to creating returns to motion after prolonged damage layovers.

Nonetheless, Bayern is about to face, fairly arguably, their hardest check of the season with their subsequent matchup within the Champions League; an away journey to Arsenal on the twenty sixth of the month. Mikel Arteta’s facet at the moment sit on the high of the Premier League desk in England and so they have received all 4 of their Champions League matches as effectively.

Midfielder Joshua Kimmich is aware of that the journey to the Emirates, regardless of historical past leaning in Bayern’s favor within the head-to-heads, will seemingly be the hardest of the season up to now. “We’re first and have Arsenal within the subsequent recreation. Then we will see as soon as once more the place we stand,” he defined after the win over PSG in Paris (ESPN UK).

The proof on show this up to now this season, and particularly within the first half on the Parc de Princes, does again Bayern to have a greater than severe likelihood of being the primary staff to get the higher of Arsenal within the Champions League, as Kimmich alluded to. “In Paris, particularly the primary half, we have been already outstandingly good. We have been extremely resilient, had many actually good possibilities and have been bodily very current. I need to say, the first-half was some of the intense halves of my profession, of each groups, this fixed man-on-man recreation and within the second half it felt much more intense,” Bayern’s quantity 6 enthused.

If they’ll replicate their throughout first half efficiency, not lose a person to a purple card, and in addition keep as defensively organized and resolute as they have been within the second half in Paris with solely ten males, there’s completely no cause why Bayern can’t get previous Arsenal. Regardless, it can definitely be one of many marquee matches of the group phases of the competitors.