Arsenal and Porto are against each tonight in this Champions League match. It's a tough match between those two teams as both teams have proved before of playing in such higher level and will be almost the same situation for both teams like in the past years. This match will be played in Emirates Stadium of London and I believe that there will be the difference between those two teams since Arsenal in front of many supporters won't disappoint as it will be a real shock for them. Arsenal will be tonight without some important players like the most important missing and the captain of the team Cesc Fabregas. Other important missings for this team are William Gallas, Kieran Gibbs, Johan Djourou, Robin van Persie and Aaron Ramsey. It looks like those missings aren't a real problem for the coach of Arsenal, Arsene Wenger as he can easy find some replacement and his only problem was to find a good replacement about his captain Cesc Fabregas as in defense he did find a great replacement for William Gallas and it was Sol Campbell that performed well in his abstence. In the other side Porto traveled in London without several important players like Fernando, Ernesto Farias, Orlando Sa and Diego Valeri while the coach have rested many important players in the weekend. I doubt that this can be an easy match for the young gunners but surely that this team have much more power than the Portuguese side to make the difference tonight. In this situation I would give them more advantages and expect Arsenal to win easily tonight with the result 2-0 or 3-1 that will make this team to pass in the quarterfinal of Champions League.
Probable starting:
Arsenal: Almunia; Sagna, Vermaelen, Campbell, Clichy; Diaby, Song, Fabregas; Nasri, Eduardo, Arshavin.
Porto: Helton; Fucile, Bruno Alves, Rolando, Pereira; Belluschi, Costa, Meireles; Hulk, Falcao, Mariano. Posted on Mar-09-2010 at 19:40 CET |