Big Match Feature: Arsenal v Porto

Arsenal have a first-leg deficit to overcome as Porto travel to north London defending a 1-0 advantage in their Uefa Champions League round of 16 contest on Tuesday. Catch all the action live on SuperSport.

Bidding to end a record run of seven successive exits at this stage, the Gunners looked to have done enough to earn a goalless draw at the Estádio do Dragão on 21 February only for Galeno – whose side have not progressed to the quarterfinals since 2020/21 – to curl in a fine winner four minutes into added time.

The Gunners, in their first Champions League campaign for seven seasons, lost in the last 16 in every campaign between 2010/11 and 2016/17, their last aggregate victory at this juncture coming at Porto's expense in 2009/10 – when, as now, they lost away in the first leg.

Arsenal are in the round of 16 for the 15th time, one more than Porto and behind only Real Madrid (21), Bayern München (20), Barcelona (18) and Chelsea (17). The London club's nine losses at this stage is a Champions League record.

Mikel Arteta's side picked up 13 points in this season's group stage to finish four above runners-up PSV Eindhoven in Group B. Porto managed only one point fewer in Group H but missed out on top spot by virtue of their head-to-head record against Barcelona, who beat them twice.

MATCH FACTS

Arsenal have won all three of their home meetings with FC Porto in all competitions by an aggregate score of 11-0, most recently a 5-0 win at the Emirates Stadium in March 2010.

Porto have won just one of their 23 away games against English sides in all European competition (D3 L19). However, that sole victory came in Spain against Chelsea in April 2021 (1-0), with the Portuguese side winless in all 22 such visits to England.

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