On Tuesday, March 12, at 10:00 p.m., the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 between Arsenal and Porto will take place at the Emirates Stadium and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 2, Orange Sport. 3 and Prima Sport 2.
Arsenal are favorites to reach the quarter-finals of the competition, even if they need a two-goal win, after a dramatic 1-0 away win over Porto (Galeno 90+4).
Arsenal advanced to the eighth Champions League final from the winning position in Group B after the following results: 4-1 (a) and 1-1 (d) with Eindhoven, 1-2 (d) and 6-0 (a ) with Lens , 2-1 (d) and 2-0 (a) with Sevilla.
In the Premier League, Mikel Arteta’s side are in first place after 28 rounds with 64 points, level with second-placed Liverpool and one place above Manchester City, who complete the podium. and is coming off a win recorded in the last official match. match played in the Championship, 2-1 at home to Brentford.
Attention, the Gunners have eight wins in the last nine official games, regardless of the competition, the only failure in this series is a defeat in Porto!
Arsenal have only reached the Champions League final once in 2006, when they lost 2-1 to Barcelona at the Stade de France in Paris.
Porto qualified for this phase of the competition by finishing 2nd in Group H, where they achieved the following results: 3-1 (d) and 5-3 (a) with Shakhtar Donetsk, 0-1 (a) and 1-2 (d) with Barcelona, 4-1 (d) and 2-0 (a) with Antwerp.
In the Premier League, Sergio Conceicao’s side are in 3rd place after 25 games with 55 points, seven behind leaders Sporting (who also have a game in hand) and their last official league match was won at Portimonense, 3- 0.
It should be noted that the Dragons came off the back of a six-game unbeaten run in all competitions (five wins and a draw) with three straight league wins, including a 5-0 home win against Benfica!
Porto won the Champions League twice in this number of finals: in 1987 (2-1 against Bayern Munich in Vienna) and in 2004 (3-0 against Monaco in Gelsenkirchen).
Apart from the Round of 16, the last time the two teams met was in the Round of 16 of the Champions League in 2009-2010, when Porto won the round 2-1 at home, but Arsenal qualified further away after winning the leg- reply from London 5-0.
Superbet offers odds of 1.25 on prediction 1: victory of the hosts in the regular time of 90 minutes in the match Arsenal – Porto.
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* the tariff is valid at the time of publication of the article
Source: Hot News
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