The solidity of Wenger's system is sure to be severely tested by Ronaldinho and company tonight, but Barca, who are far from impregnable defensively and have looked fatigued in recent matches, will have to be equally wary about the threat posed by Arsenal's deadly counter-attacking.
Rijkaard has ruled out man-marking Henry and will take a 22-man squad including teenage sensation Lionel Messi to Paris now that the Argentinian youngster has been declared fit after a lengthy injury lay-off.
The Dutch manager will only name his 18-man squad for the final on the day of the match.
Two fans desperate for tickets
Two armed, masked men burst into a town hall north of Paris, taking 13 municipal councillors hostage and demanding tickets for today's Champions League football final, officials said yesterday.
"As grotesque as it may seem, it appears that these people came with the intention of getting hold of places for the Champions League," the police department said.
The attackers broke into the premises at around 10pm on Monday, ordering the councillors under a table at gunpoint.
"They said: `We want to see the mayor, we want the tickets,'" according to Gilles Smadja, chief aide to the mayor of the Paris suburb of Saint Denis.
Le Parisien newspaper said the assailants mistook a councillor for the mayor, put a gun to his head and threatened to shoot him in the foot before realising their mistake and fleeing the building.
Police, alerted by mobile phone, arrived at the scene shortly afterwards and set up a security cordon. But they found no trace of the attackers.
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