Arsenal vs Borussia Dortmund: Team news, kick-off time, odds and stats for the Champions League clash

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Ahead of this week's Champions League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture involving a Premier League side, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Arsenal's encounter against Dortmund...

Arsenal vs Dortmund (Emirates Stadium)

Kick-off: Wednesday 7:45pm (Sky Sports 1) 

Odds (subject to change)

Arsenal 13/10

Draw 5/2

Dortmund 21/10 

Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

Managers: Arsene Wenger (Arsenal), Jurgen Klopp (Dortmund)

Head-to-head record: Arsenal W3 D1 L3 vs Dortmund in the CL

Team news

Arsenal will be without England midfielder Jack Wilshere, who is set to see a specialist because of an ankle injury, for Wednesday night's Champions League clash against Borussia Dortmund.

Forward Theo Walcott (groin) also misses out along with goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny who injured his hip during Saturday's Barclays Premier League defeat to Manchester United, but striker Danny Welbeck (knee) is expected to be available and defender Laurent Koscielny is in contention again following an Achilles problem.

Jack Wilshere will miss Arsenal's next game after sustaining an ankle injury against Manchester United

Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal currently occupy the top two spots in Group D

Striker Olivier Giroud, fit again from three months out with a broken leg, was not registered for European competition. Mesut Ozil (knee), Mathieu Debuchy (ankle), goalkeeper David Ospina (thigh) and Abou Diaby (calf) are all still unavailable.

Provisional squad: Martinez, Chambers, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Arteta, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Sanchez, Welbeck, Huddart, Monreal, Sanogo, Flamini, Podolski, Rosicky, Campbell, Bellerin. 

Key match stats (supplied by Opta) 

These teams are battling for 1st place; if Dortmund avoid defeat they are guaranteed top spot.

A draw or a win guarantees Arsenal’s progress to the round of last 16. Even a defeat would be enough if the other game ends as a draw.

For the third time in a row Borussia Dortmund have qualified for the round of the last 16 in the Champions League.

Dortmund, with 12 points and a goal difference of +12, have the second best record ever after four Matchdays in the group stages of the Champion League – only Juventus, in 1995/96, had a better record (only courtesy of scoring one goal more).

Dortmund have won their last five matches in the Champions League – only from December 1996 to October 1997 have they had a longer run (eight wins)

Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny has also been ruled out of his side's next match

Only Galatasaray have managed to score against Dortmund in their last five matches.

For the first time, Dortmund have scored at least twice in five consecutive games in the Champions League.

With 13 goals scored in this year’s group stage, Dortmund have the second-best goal-tally after Shaktar Donezk (14 goals).

Adrian Ramos scored with each of his three shots on target in the Champions League.

Alexis Sanchez has scored two goals in this year’s CL-season, equaling his personal record of goals in a single season (2011/12 with FC Barcelona).

Danny Welbeck celebrates his 24th birthday on the day of this match.

Arsenal have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last seven matches of the Champions League.

Arsenal’s last CL clean sheet was exactly a year ago: a 2-0-win over Olympique Marseille on the 26th November 2013.

Arsenal’s Tomas Rosicky played five and a half seasons for Borussia Dortmund and won the German league in his first full season (2001/2002).