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
Love it! Solid bench too! We go for the jugular from minute 1! COYG!!!
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
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
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.
Trossard is not a very good starter.
But he’s an excellent finisher!
Definitely I buy the definition of “impacters” for those 2
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.
Mate have you seen how we’re playing? We’re absolutely brilliant.
I could eat humble pie but I fully expect us to progress.
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
I’m pretty convinced we’re watching a title winning side atm
That’ll do, Mik. That’ll do. 3-0 to The Arsenal
Mick knows. COYG!
Letz Dø dis
I’d probably have gone with Jesus instead of Trossard, but he’s a very good option to have on the bench.
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!!!
Good to see that apart from Timber all our injured players are back!
Apart from Martinelli obviously
Think Jesus should have started on the left!
Great option from the bench if we need him
Mike knows what he’s doing.
Difference Maker!
Absolutely SHITTING IT…
Get out the positive attitude and some toilet roll, we got this
Don’t forget to mop up
We are winning this by at least 2 goals up. Let’s do this.
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
Have faith fellow Gooners. These boys have something about them that we haven’t seen for some time at the Arsenal.
An early goal for us would be ideal. Come on, King Kai.
65m down the drain
Kai Havertz scores again
Just smash them
We have the advantage because we know what they be like this time with the diving and cheating so forewarned and all that!
They have two Pepes in their starting lineup. That’s two more Pepes than anyone needs.
Anyone based in or near Maidstone on here? I used to go to the ashes pub to watch matches!!!
Do we need to worry about Turpin the referee? I heard he’s quite controversial
I hear he is a dick, dick Turpin – sorry couldn’t resist
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.
Butterflies.
COYG!!!
Trossad’s ‘uncle’ is the referee. They look so alike! 😄
Older brother
My word. Ødegaard is some player.
END OF DISCUSSION (EOD)!
Needs TP5 in
I like ally mccoist but I was totally unaware he was a Porto fan
Not sure what to like about that idiot when he thinks the ref has been “absolutely excellent”
Refs are the same all over the world. The officiating of this game has been so poor!🙄
Definitely found that fucking ref in a lucky bag
You’d think Trossard’s brother would be kinder to us …
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!
Rayaaaaaaaaa!!!! Arteta pls keep proving me wrong !!!
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?