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.
If I'm not mistaken, the last time Arsenal qualified for the quarter-finals was 11 years ago and that's a long time for the Gunners to penetrate this zone. What they did paid off and their efforts were not insulting at all. The victory against Porto on penalties was still quite tense and maybe if it weren't for David Raya then Arsenal would have definitely been eliminated.
How lucky raya was in predicting some shoots accurately. The Porto player seemed very bad when it came to the penalty, as he was always incorrectly predicting the shots from Arsenal's players. Porto's players need to train even harder when it comes to the penalty as an additional round in this game. I was watching it and yeah porto missed some shoots.
The port's goalkeeper was unable giving a good performance in the penalty since he was always unable to block the ball. Raya also had a lucky moment when the ball was reflecting his body, and it was not going into the back of the net. Poor porto and club has not trained so well in facing the penalty like this.
The club must be able to continue performing even better than in the match against Porto because the upcoming game will be harder for Arsenal. We don't really know what team Arsenal is awaiting, but I hope it's facing Barcelona or Atletico Madrid soon.
I missed the moment when Arsenal faced Barcelona, which was also very crowded. The draw will happen very soon, and many fans are hoping that their favorite club will get an easier challenger for the next round. Barcelona and Arsenal are probably the weakest opponents that will be available in this round.
Many clubs are hoping that they can get easiest way to go to the semi final. The big teams from bundesliga, epl and la liga may able to face each other soon.