UCL: Arsenal draw 2-2 with Bayern Munich

Arsenal came back to force Bayern Munich to a 2-2 draw at the Allianz Arena, extending their unbeaten run in the Champions League stage to 15 games.

Both teams went into matchday three undefeated and lived up to their expectations.

Arsenal suffered an early blow when Bukayo Saka went down with a left quad injury after just 10 minutes and was replaced by Eberechi Eze.

Eze made an instant impact when he opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Martin Odegaard played a superb ball over the top and Eze stayed in to beat Manuel Neuer.

In the 35th minute, Alphonso Davies made it 1-1 by finishing off a magnificent pass from Harry Kane that isolated Jurrien Timber.

Then in the 61st minute, Kane scored from the penalty spot after Timber had handled Kane’s shot from the former Tottenham striker.

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But with eight minutes remaining, Declan Rice equalized for Arsenal. Rice stepped up, beat Viktor Gyokeres, recovered the ball and scored the equalizer.

Bayern thought they had extended their incredible 39-game unbeaten run in the Champions League group/league stage stretching back to 2013, but Rice denied this.

The tie means that Arsenal are in seventh place with seven points, while Bayern are in 14th place with five points in the standings.

In other matches, Real Madrid beat RB Leipzig 4-1, Inter Milan beat Shakhter Donetsk 1-0, Aston Villa beat Viking 3-1, Club Brugge beat Lens 3-0, Real Betis beat Feyenoord 1-0 and LASK beat Sporting Lisbon 3-2.

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