4 takeaways from Arsenal's humbling Champions League loss at Porto
Arsenal's nine-year wait to win a Champions League knockout stage match will go on for at least another three weeks after they were beaten 1-0 by Porto in the first leg of their last 16 tie.
The Gunners lost to a 94th-minute screamer from Wenderson Galeno to ensure they go into the return fixture at the Emirates Stadium one goal down on aggregate.
Wednesday's affair at the Estadio do Dragao was not a particularly pulsating one until Galeno popped up with the last-gasp winner, capping off a rather miserable night for Mikel Arteta's men.
Here's what we learned from Arsenal's disappointing first leg showing.
Alright, Galeno's strike is a beauty, but we cannot overlook the fact it lands in the corner, looping over the helpless David Raya.
The Spain international may have proven to be better and more useful to Arsenal than Aaron Ramsdale this season, but goalkeeper remains a problem position. Any stopper worth his salt should not be getting beaten by this strike.
Raya is barely 6ft tall and did not make any adjustment to his positioning to compensate in this instance. Maybe that's a bit of bad luck, but he has a habit of conceding these kinds of goals from range — he just doesn't have the height to keep out these sorts of finishes. That's a problem if you're trying to win the Premier League and Champions League.
The story of Liverpool's season on the pitch so far has been their ability to rotate in a cast of highly-skilled and dangerous attackers amid their injury crisis. Manchester City are famous for 'Pep roulette' in FPL.
But you know exactly who is going to fill three of Arsenal's four attacking slots — Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Gabriel Martinelli and then one of Leandro Trossard or Gabriel Jesus.
There's now a predictability
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