Loss Champions League Round of 16: FC Porto 1 - 0 Arsenal | Wednesday 21st February | KO: 20:00 GMT | TNT Sports

Prediction

Porto 0-2 Arsenal

 

[Sniper Mik]

Jorgie better be up to speed by then because we are going to need him to start in this sort of game.

Isn't the game after an international break? Who knows what kind of shape the squad will be in.

 

[Synical]

Rice is such a natural in front of the camera

 

[MartiSaka]

This guy knows what he is talking about, tbf.

Was a titan in my Aberdeen Championship Manager 03-04 save, when I beat Rangers and Celtic to the title...you can sign him on a free transfer on that game, as Chelsea sacked him for doing coke in a London nightclub... legend in my books

Super, super talented but wasted it. Alex Ferguson who signed him for Utd called him the worse professional he ever had to manage in his career.

 

[BaZZe]

I don't get why people say Martinelli's pass was braindead you can see exactly what he was trying to do and it made sense. He tried to lay it to Saka for a last minute counter he just executed it really badly.

 

[REWB]

why do Portuguese teams always score bangers against us?

 

[Sniper Mik]

Rice is such a natural in front of the camera

Ben Stokes of the football world.

 

[Artemis]

No they are not a rubbish team. They have been playing in the UCL for a good while now much longer than we have recently. They were actually unlucky to go out to Inter last season with both games being tight over the 2 legs.

They would get absolutely smashed by City or Liverpool. That's just a fact. Liverpool routinely destroyed Porto for a good reason.

That high line would have got wrecked.

Especially when we played through Porto's press and gaps opened up. We didn't do anything with it. We didn't even look to run behind Porto. It was a disgrace up front.

 

[Diesel]

I want one more physically able player in the team. One who doesn't end up on the ground every time he gets the ball back to the net. Goldie locks is annoying in most big games so shouldn't go at him to hard. 9/10 times he plays like this in this game state.

 

[Sniper Mik]

why do Portuguese teams always score bangers against us?

Cause we've got two sh*t keepers.

 

[Riou]

In a game? This can’t be real

No, in real life...in game would have been ****ing amazing though

There was another free transfer you could get in that game, Hamilton Ricard...who I picked up with Aberdeen and was my top scorer.

Years later I looked up why he was on a free, turned out he killed someone in Colombia.

My star guys being a drug head and a murderer ffs, took a little away from the memory of that save not gonna lie!

 

[MikelHadADream]

Not really. Final minutes in the PL and you'd expect the worst team to see out the match.

You go for the win in the PL. In a first leg away game in the champions league you accept the 0-0.

 

[North5]

Might be one of the all time best posts on here.

Reads like a Donald Trump tweet. Poetry

 

[Synical]

You making too many assumptions on what Arteta will do in future.

Arteta got it wrong tonight yes, just like Klopp got his tactics wrong when coming to the Emirates as few weeks ago. These things happen.

We were playing for a draw, and we were punished for that. But its only halftime.

I wouldn't even say he got his tactics wrong, because if it had ended 0-0 I'd be feeling really positive. It was a lapse of concentration in literally the last minute

 

[TH14shahriar]

They would get absolutely smashed by City or Liverpool. That's just a fact. Liverpool routinely destroyed Porto for a good reason.

That high line would have got wrecked.

Especially when we played through Porto's press and gaps opened up. We didn't do anything with it. We didn't even look to run behind Porto.

Because we didn't even try, Arteta came for a draw, it's obvious.

 

[GunnerUK]

lol at some of the posters here.

“No confidence in 2nd leg” “we’re bottlers and will bottle it”

PMSL

Porto will role over die 4-0 at the Emirates. They are specialist in it. History has always told us this in this tie.

Also seeing posts about Newcastle beating lol. Some of you are just pathetic - really.

 

[Nunowoolmez]

Well here we go again FFS. Next game will tell us where we are at mentality wise.

If we go on to have another little blip like we normally do after a loss, I'm not sure I can back our manager anymore. We won't win anything like this.

 

[Synical]

I want one more physically able player in the team. One who doesn't end up on the ground every time he gets the ball back to the net. Goldie locks is annoying in most big games so shouldn't go at him to hard. 9/10 times he plays like this in this game state.

Who tf is Goldie locks

 

[Tom Mix]

Please guys, don't make yourself silly by bigging-up Porto. There's a reason why they are off the pace in a weak European league and have in the last three games lost at Arouca (who?) and scraped a draw at home with the mighty Rio Ave.

They're not bad, but they're not very good. They did their bit today but basically we beat ourselves.

 

[Makingtrax]

As grim as that was, we should beat them at home.

 

[Sniper Mik]

Please guys, don't make yourself silly by bigging-up Porto. There's a reason why they are off the pace in a weak European league and have in the last three games lost at Arouca (who?) and scraped a draw at home with the mighty Rio Ave.

They're not bad, but they're not very good. They did their bit today but basically we beat ourselves.

League performances do not translate to Europe. It's a completely different equation.