UEFA Champions League Playoff Round, Tuesday Open Thread: With Focus On Arsenal Vs. Udinese

Hey there Spursland. It's a boring Tuesday afternoon, no? Well then you should flip on the football! Our big rivals Arsenal are involved in a nice big playoff tie with Udinese, while four other matches will be going on at the same time. I'll be following along with all of the action and I welcome you guys to chat it up here and root hard for a small provincial team from Fruili.

I'll be doing regular updates on the Arsenal-Udinese match in this StoryStream at SB Nation. We'll have stuff on the other games here, including Lyon-Rubin Kazan and Twente-Benfica. By the way, we're not in this competition this year! This really sucks!

Udinese's lineup is super defensive and it looks like they'll be playing for the draw from the beginning. Hopefully they can score a goal anyway. I don't hate Arsenal, as I've made clear a thousand times, but that doesn't mean I can't find it funny when they lose. All of the games kick off at 2:45 pm ET, 7:45 pm BST. The Arse game is on FSC in the States, while the others are available on FoxSoccer.tv and elsewhere based on your locale and service provider.

Chat it up, boys!