Alexander Hleb maintains Arsenal can "achieve absolutely anything" as Arsene Wenger's side go in search of both Premier League and European glory.

The Gunners knocked holders AC Milan out of the Champions League with a stunning 2-0 win at the San Siro last week, and so head into Friday's draw for the last eight and semi-finals confident of making further progress towards the final in Moscow.

Wenger - whose side lead the Premier League by two points from Manchester United, albeit having played a game more - has already taken his team to one Champions League final, where they eventually lost to Barcelona after playing most of the game with only 10 men.

Hleb, 26, maintains the Gunners are "stronger" from their experiences of 2006 and have the talent to go one better.

"We have got a very good chance [in the Champions League] this year," Hleb insisted.

"We are stronger now than when we reached the final in Paris. Even though we are quite a young team, we do have a lot of collective experience."

Hleb added in the UEFA Champions League Magazine: "With our squad, and with the manager we have leading us, we can achieve absolutely anything."

Friday's draw in Nyon, Switzerland has no seedings - and as such could pair any of the remaining four English sides together.

Arsenal have met another Premier League side in European competition before, at the quarter-final stage in 2004 when Chelsea ran out surprise winners against Wenger's then all-conquering team.

A reunion with former captain Thierry Henry and Barcelona also remains a possibility, while Turkish side Fenerbahce, Germans Schalke and Serie A outfit Roma complete the last-eight line-up.

With the first leg of the quarter-finals scheduled for either April 1 or 2, clubs will have less than three weeks to get their preparations in order.

Wenger revealed he was "on alert" for any possibility - with the logistics of a potential trip to the edge of Asia as well as the relative home comforts of a shorter journey also in mind.

"You prepare [for the draw] in one sense that you are on alert to know where do you travel because don't forget that you could go to Turkey as well as to England," Wenger told Arsenal TV.

"If it's England you don't need to travel too much because we always stay in the same hotels.

"If it is to Turkey, particularly with the time between the draw and the first game being very short, you have to organise that very quickly.

"Then the scouting department is on alert as well because you have to respond and react very quickly."

Wenger added: "I play a big part in the organisation and scouting. That's my department basically, but the people have worked with me for a long time.

"They know what I want and I trust them to do their job very well and respond very quickly."

Meanwhile Wenger has revealed striker Eduardo had been a welcome visitor to the training ground.

The Croatian will miss both the rest of the season and this summer's European Championships after breaking his leg at Birmingham following a challenge from Matthew Taylor.

"He came in and it was fantastic. He looked good. He is positive in his mind and a strong boy mentally," Wenger told Arsenal TV Online.

"Of course we are sad to lose him for the season. But we are all pleased at the way he is dealing with it.

"Everybody who has been in this situation knows how difficult this is to take."

Winger Theo Walcott faces a fitness test on his thigh injury ahead of Saturday's game.

Emmanuel Eboue is available again after serving a three match domestic ban for his red card in the FA Cup fifth-round defeat at Manchester United.

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