This coming week in going to be a very big week in the champions league,as teams like Arsenal will be hosting FC Porto at home in a must win game for Arsenal,if they are to ever see themselves in the next round of the tournament.They were floged by FC Porto in the first leg,and will be needing two goals to be able to qualify for the next stage which is the quarter final.But to FC Porto,they consider the game over,because if they can just tie them down to a draw,they've already won the game.This will definitely be an interesting game to watch,as Arsenal will try to do magic for them to qualify and break the bad luck of not qualifying from round 16.
I think it remains a difficult match for Arsenal to be able to turn things around because after all, Porto's defense is also fairly strong and there is still Pepe there as a very strong player in defense. Even though on paper Arsenal are still very favored to win because after all, based on the odds available at this time also really project Arsenal to win. Because after all, the current available odds are Arsenal @1.20 and Porto @15.00 so obviously, with Arsenal's excellent trend this season then of course Arsenal are still the favorite team to qualify for the quarter-finals compared to Porto. Although yes, the reality is that Arsenal also got a bad result in the first leg and that is also an unpredictable result. Therefore, it seems that I personally still think that it will still not be easy for Arsenal to turn things around because of course, Porto also has big ambitions to qualify for the quarter-finals.
Personally, I would like Porto to win, why? because I know that Arsenal, with their inconsistency, will leave the UCL from one moment to the next as if nothing had happened and they would hardly have any heart, and that is something that would bother me a lot, because there are teams that have left the UCL. UCL where they have given everything and do not deserve to be eliminated, so in this order I come up with ideas, I see the effort of Pepe who always gives everything, he is a complete player and also has a lot of temperament and how he is In defense he gives security to his goalkeeper , something that very few defenses currently do, it is like the style of Roberto Carlos, Varane, Maldini, they are very good players who always did their job very well despite their age, and that is something that still exists in football.
Arsenal has a lot of potential, they have everything to even be champion of the PL, because so far they are at the bottom of the PL, so they are not doing badly, but personally, I would like to see a team like them. Porto for what it means to reach the semi-finals with the best in Europe, that gives relevance to Portuguese football, which is very beautiful and exciting, here in the UCL it is being shown that it is a football that has a lot to offer and that is at the pace of the best in the world.