Quote from: ancafe on Today at 04:30:13 AM

Quote from: QueenVera on January 17, 2024, 10:49:17 PM

One of the fixtures for the UCL round of 16 between Arsenal and Porto is more of an average probable game. Both teams are likely to win. Although Arsenal are a better side judging from their EPL performances, to their group stage performances too. Porto themselves aren't doing so bad in their league and they've got good track record in the group stage. That's why the game is going to be a little bit tough to predict the winner, well let's see if Arsenal would be able to comfortably win them and qualify for the next round.

Even if many people predict that Arsenal will win this match, in my opinion the match will not be easy for Arsenal to get full points. Porto have qualified 23 times for the Champions League and that means they are only behind Real Madrid and Barcelona in the Champions League and Porto have also won the Champions League twice. Even though that was before, Arsenal cannot underestimate Porto's performance because if they are careless, Arsenal will fail to advance to the next round.

Away matches will usually be much tougher because the Champions League is quite different from the main league so it is not uncommon for many clubs to be eliminated quickly. Arteta needs to prepare a lot of things because the match is still long and maybe he can motivate his players to perform as well as possible to get full points.

However, if you look at the quality of the team this season, I think Arsenal's percentage of winning matches is much greater, regardless of the history of the two teams in the past, but what is certain is that Arsenal and Porto are the two top teams in Europe who have a fairly strong mentality.
In the Champions League know-out round, it is possible for many things to happen, very often surprises happen here, but that is beyond the speculation of many people, which is certain that, mathematically, Arsenal currently has a bigger chance because their performance is much better than Porto.