Arsenal face Thierry Henry's Champions League nightmare after quarter-final draw

Arsenal now have the prospect of facing one of the two teams Thierry Henry wanted his former club to avoid in the Champions League draw.

The Gunners were drawn to face Bayern Munich in the quarter-final of the competition on Friday. The tie will take place next month, with the Emirates Stadium hosting the first leg before Arsenal go to the Allianz Stadium a week later.

Arsenal defeated Porto in their last-16 tie to set up a quarter-final against Bayern Munich. Elsewhere, the Bundesliga giants overcame a 1-0 deficit to beat Lazio in the previous round.

The tie will be the first time that Arsenal will have faced Bayern Munich since the last-16 stage in 2017. The Gunners lost 10-2 on aggregate to the German club and will be looking for a significantly improved outcome this time around.

Earlier this week, Arsenal legend Thierry Henry was asked to name the clubs he would either want or not in the next round for his former club. Henry named Manchester City and Real Madrid as those two clubs, and they will face each other in the quarter-final.

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The winner of Arsenal's tie against Bayern Munich will face either Man City or Real Madrid in the semi-final. Henry explained why he would wanted to have avoided facing the duo in the knockout stages of the Champions League.

«Man City are the team to beat still, for me,» Henry told CBS Sports this week. «I know Pep [Guardiola], it’s not how he’s going to take it, I was just putting it out there.

»Me as a player, I’ve been in too many situations to know that sometimes the so-called team who was easy to play against is not