Congratulations Arsenal you got away with an uphill battle. I think in some league games you are very good and that will continue into the UCL. But I was wrong, Porto is quite strong. Porto made Arsenal difficult. They worked hard and made it to the penalty. In the penalty I was quite amazed by Raya's performance. He managed to thwart 2 penalties. Of course this will be history, because they managed to qualify for the quarter-finals.
Definitely a hard fought win for Arsenal, when they got Porto after the draws I was on about that it wouldn’t be an easy game for them but their fans thought otherwise. Porto brought their A game to the match and could have snatched a victory there. David Raya came clutch for them and it signifies why Arteta seems to trust the Spaniard more, he is a better penalty goalkeeper than Ramsdale and in competition like this you need goal keepers like that. Diego Coasta in the Porto post wasn’t also a bad option in keeping out penalties too just that he didn’t got lucky yesterday, as the five Arsenal players that came to shoot are regular penalty takers and are good at it.
There is a stat around that for the past few years the team that knocks out Porto always ends as the champions league winners if the fate Carries on then Arsenal might be on about it. Many might be doubting them but with there recent performances I think they can go far just that they might be short of experience going that far. But this time I am not ruling out the possibility of it happening because they got quite an incredible team for that