Friday, November 8, 2024

Raya returns, Jorginho starts: Arsenal v Porto team news

Arsenal are in Champions League action this evening, looking to overturn a 1-0 deficit against Porto from the first leg of our Round of 16 tie.

Here are the official line-ups.

Arsenal: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Kiwior, Jorginho, Rice, Odegaard, Trossard, Saka, Havertz

Subs: Ramsdale, Hein, Cedric, Partey, Elneny, Smith Rowe, Tomiyasu, Nelson, Vieira, Nketiah, Zinchenko, Jesus

Porto: Costa, Mario, Pepe, Otavio, Wendell, Varela, Gonzalez, Conceicao, Pepe, Galeno, Evanlison

Subs: Ramos, Cardoso, Eustaquio, Grujic, Sanchez, Jaime, Namaso, Baro, Martinez, Borges, Pedro

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Vieiraera

Love it! Solid bench too! We go for the jugular from minute 1! COYG!!!

Master Floda

Ramsdale
Cedric, Mo, Tomi, Zinchenko
ESR, Partey, Vieira
Nelson, Eddie, Jesus

This would be a pretty decent team itself, although I would consider playing Hein or Inanimate Carbon Rod at RB

Zenithreptile

Pretty surprised to see Trossard there instead of Jesus. All quite nerve wracking really. Get a result and the season so far is near on perfect, dip out and it could be a slippery slope

Vieiraera

I prefer the consistency. You don’t just change a system / personnel which have delivered most the previous 8 wins with 30 goals+ overnight. Jesus and TP could be big impact players starting from the bench.

9ja Gunner

Trossard is not a very good starter.

Up4GrabsNow!

But he’s an excellent finisher!

Cedric Fabergas

Definitely I buy the definition of “impacters” for those 2

Bleeding gums Murphy

Martinelli was the consistency on the left. Trossard came in for him Saturday and didn’t have the best of games. Hope he’s better tonight.

Eboue

Mate have you seen how we’re playing? We’re absolutely brilliant.

I could eat humble pie but I fully expect us to progress.

Bleeding gums Murphy

We were awful in first leg and didn’t have shot on target. We wasn’t great against Brentford and could easily have lost that game. I really hope we do put 5 past em and also hope the fantasy football managers are right. Let’s be mindful of our discipline tonight and make sure we keep 11 on the pitch. Come on you gunners

Eboue

I’m pretty convinced we’re watching a title winning side atm

Up4GrabsNow!

That’ll do, Mik. That’ll do. 3-0 to The Arsenal

Paul

Mick knows. COYG!

Artedu

Letz Dø dis

SLC Gooner

I’d probably have gone with Jesus instead of Trossard, but he’s a very good option to have on the bench.

Daveod

I honestly think the crowd is more important than the starting 11 tonight, need to make the ref a bottle job like he was in Porto. COYG!!!

Bill Hall

Good to see that apart from Timber all our injured players are back!

Bill Hall

Apart from Martinelli obviously

Henkamp

Think Jesus should have started on the left!

Eboue

Great option from the bench if we need him

9ja Gunner

Mike knows what he’s doing.

COYG1001

Difference Maker!

CLEGooner

Absolutely SHITTING IT…

Daveod

Get out the positive attitude and some toilet roll, we got this

Eric Blair

Don’t forget to mop up

9ja Gunner

We are winning this by at least 2 goals up. Let’s do this.

Fatgooner

No surprises.

I want to see us go at them hard from the start and get a couple of quick early goals. Then we can relax a bit.

3-1 tonight

The Peter Simpsons

Have faith fellow Gooners. These boys have something about them that we haven’t seen for some time at the Arsenal.

Man Manny

An early goal for us would be ideal. Come on, King Kai.
65m down the drain
Kai Havertz scores again

bdotm

Just smash them

Bill Hall

We have the advantage because we know what they be like this time with the diving and cheating so forewarned and all that!

Like White and Rice

They have two Pepes in their starting lineup. That’s two more Pepes than anyone needs.

Billy bob

Anyone based in or near Maidstone on here? I used to go to the ashes pub to watch matches!!!

Stonks

Do we need to worry about Turpin the referee? I heard he’s quite controversial

Billy bob

I hear he is a dick, dick Turpin – sorry couldn’t resist

Scrubbychubby

Good line up and great bench. Jesus on later on if we need him is a great ace in the hole. Can absolutely overturn this 1 goal deficit but will need to play well. Atmosphere should be amazing.

TotsOfJack

Butterflies.

Teryima Adi

COYG!!!

FMT

Trossad’s ‘uncle’ is the referee. They look so alike! 😄

Ealing

Older brother

TotsOfJack

My word. Ødegaard is some player.

FMT

END OF DISCUSSION (EOD)!

Ealing

Needs TP5 in

Daveod

I like ally mccoist but I was totally unaware he was a Porto fan

Vieiraera

Not sure what to like about that idiot when he thinks the ref has been “absolutely excellent”

FMT

Refs are the same all over the world. The officiating of this game has been so poor!🙄

Saint

Definitely found that fucking ref in a lucky bag

Mentalista

You’d think Trossard’s brother would be kinder to us …

He’s got no hair but we don’t care...

We really need beautiful Benjamin to give the whole team shithousery lessons! It’s the only way to compete against this abhorrent team who are aided by a twonk of a ref!

Vieiraera

Rayaaaaaaaaa!!!! Arteta pls keep proving me wrong !!!

Billy bob

Didn’t the opposition manager say something about his team know how to win lol well he can shove his dirty tactics/team where the sun don’t shine!!! Porto won’t be missed!!! They played for penalties and got dumped out on penalties lol how about they try playing football rather than fall over every five seconds?

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