PRAGUE — Hosting Arsenal in the Champions League on Wednesday, Slavia Prague are facing the mammoth task of ending a drawn-out winless streak in the competition as an unwelcome record looms.

The Czech champions have won a single game out of 23 in the Champions League — on their debut in the competition against Steaua Bucharest in September 2007.

They have since only managed eight draws and 14 losses over four Champions League campaigns including the current one.

“Of course the longer it gets, the more unpleasant it is,” said Jindrich Trpisovsky, the Slavia manager since 2017.

“The streak is long and as we keep talking about it, I brood over it more than in the past,” he added.

Record holders AEK Athens failed to win 24 straight games from 1992-2006, while Steaua, now known as FCSB, recorded 23 winless games between 2006 and 2013.

Slavia host Arsenal fresh off the back of their 1-0 victory over Liverpool at Anfield, which would daunt most teams, before Villarreal at home and Bayern Munich away in their next European games.

“Of course we know how tough European games are and how hard you must work to win,” said Trpisovsky.

“In some games we were on the front foot and we got beaten. This is the beauty of football.”