“We need some quality vertical passing to unlock their defence.” (opinion)

Ahead of tomorrow night’s match versus FC Porto at the Emirates Stadium in the UEFA Champions League, I’ve taken a look at our forum, Arsenal Talk, to see what supporters are saying ahead of the game.

You can have your say on tomorrow night’s match on the forum here. The match is live on TNT Sports 1 and TNT Sports Ultimate at 20:00 and the referee is Clément Turpin.

Past meetings at the Emirates Stadium in the Champions League:

26th September 2006: Arsenal 2-0 FC Porto (Thierry Henry 38′, Aleksandr Hleb 48′)

30th September 2008: Arsenal 4-0 FC Porto (Robin van Persie 31′, 48′, Emmanuel Adebayor 40′, 71′ (PEN)

9th March 2010: Arsenal 5-0 FC Porto (Nicklas Bendtner 9′, 25′, 90′ (PEN), Sami Nasri 63′, Emmanuel Eboué 66′)

Riou: “The Champions League last 16 second leg is nearly here…

A stage we haven’t got past since 2010, a stage that has seen us get beaten 5-1 and 10-2 in our last 2 appearances in it (plus how we fumbled it against a similar level side to this Porto team in Monaco before that too when we were favourites!) a stage few of our current players/coaches have ever reached before…and let’s not forget how heartbreakingly hilariously we lost in the last minute in the 1st leg.

Don’t know about you guys but I will be sitting down in front of my television EXTREMELY confidently on Tuesday night…

…no nerves/tension at all from this guy!”

Yousif Arsenal: “Come on Mikel and our players let’s act like a top team and get past this stage enough is enough getting knocked out against these kinds of teams in the round of 16.

Jorginho must start and if Zinchenko is fit too he should start Porto will go extreme deep block. Havertz stays as CF and G. Jesus LW.

We need every bit of creativity here even if means we concede counters we need more than one solution to trouble Porto.”

Dennis_Bergkamp_10: “Nervous as **** for this game. We all know the amount of time they’re going to waste, faking injuries and whatnot. Remember, the Portuguese have invented this tactic.

We have to score a quick goal and keep going after that. Three goals up and kill the game off. The players have some rest after this.

I’d start Jesus on the flank if Martinelli is out, Havertz up top of course to get some height in the box. I think we need Zinchenko and Jorginho too, they will be sitting deep and we need some quality vertical passing to unlock their defence.”