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·7 April 2026
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·7 April 2026

Arsenal take on Sporting CP in the first leg of their Champions League quarter final on Tuesday night.
Mikel Arteta’s side are looking to bounce back from consecutive defeats against Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final, and then a shock loss to Southampton in the FA Cup on Saturday.
Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the game…
8pm, Tuesday April 7
Streaming on Prime Video UK
Sporting: Quenda (doubt), Hjulmand (suspended), Santos (out), Ioannidis (doubt), Guilherme (doubt)
Arsenal: Merino (out), Timber (out), Hincapie (out), Eze (out), Saka (out)
Sporting (4-2-3-1): Silva; Fresneda, Quaresma, Inacio, Araujo; Debast, Morita; Catamo, Trincao, Pote; Suarez
Arsenal (4-3-3): Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori; Odegaard, Zubimendi, Rice; Madueke, Gyokeres, Trossard
Sporting go into their home game having won the last three matches in a row, the latest of which was a 4-2 win over Santa Clara on Friday. They beat Bodo/Glimt in the round of 16 to make it to this stage.
Arsenal have lost back-to-back games, against Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final and then Southampton in the FA Cup.
Sporting CP boss Rui Borges: “Arsenal are a great team and they will be like a wounded beast tomorrow, more focused on their individual capacity. Frankly, it will make it more difficult for us but we believe we can do something special tomorrow and do something that has never been done before by reaching the semi final.
“At this stage, I don’t think there are any favourites. Two teams who have made a positive path, we qualified in the top eight and there will be mutual respect. But I do believe our supporters, our fans, can make the difference and maybe beat a great team, maybe the best – or among the two or three best – in Europe.
“We know we are facing a great team, a mistake can be fatal and so one second of distraction can cost you.”
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on his side’s consecutive losses: “Have some perspective, how difficult it is, what we’ve done up to now. And then feel that pain, feel that emotion, and use it to be better and to improve.
“So we were very clear in what happened, the reason why it happened, watching the game two times, we didn’t deserve to lose that match, but this is football and we get punished for things that are related to our identity, and that’s the things that we need to defend in the strongest possible way, because that’s the reason that we are where we are today.”









































