Champions League: Arsenal to recover and a strong summit in Barcelona

English Arsenal will host its Portuguese rival, Porto, on Tuesday at nine o’clock in the evening, at the Emirates Stadium in the British capital, London, in the second leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League.

The leaders of the English Premier League will try to compensate for their loss in the first leg with an unanswered goal in order to advance to the quarter-finals.

Arsenal was defeated at the Dragao Stadium in Porto, two weeks ago, by a fatal goal scored by Brazilian Henderson Galeno in the last minutes of the confrontation (94th minute).

The Gunners have not reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League since the era of retired French coach Arsene Wenger, as their last participation in this round dates back to the 2009/2010 season.

The balance of previous confrontations between Arsenal and Porto leans towards the former, especially at its home stadium, where the Portuguese were unable to beat them in the London capital in the last three matches for the same European competition.

summit Spanish Italian in Barcelona

Last season’s Italian League champion, Napoli, avoided defeat at home to Diego Armando Maradona when it hosted the five-time Champions League champion, Barcelona, ​​on February 21.

Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen, the Napoli star, responded to his Polish counterpart Robert Lewandowski, who scored his 93rd goal in the Champions League during the match against the Partenopei, to equalize the score in a way that sparked a lot of controversy in the 75th minute, after the Catalan club protested to the referee of the match, claiming that Osimhen had assaulted the defender. Spaniard Inigo Martinez receiving the ball.

Coach Xavi Hernandez will seek to repeat the achievement of 2020, when former star Lionel Messi’s teammates scored Napoli’s net on three occasions on the grounds of the Camp Nou stadium (undergoing reconstruction).

The interview, which will be moderated by Dutch referee Danny Makele, will be held at the Luis Companis Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, ​​starting at nine in the evening.