Mikel Arteta has known only frustration at Arsenal in the Champions League last 16. When he was a player, he tasted defeat at this stage of the competition for five consecutive seasons – part of a wider run of seven last‑16 exits from 2011 to 2017.
That was then. But here, after a stressful night in Porto against a team with rather more recent experience of this kind of occasion, when the margins were so excruciatingly thin, Arteta got the same sinking feeling.
Written by David Hytner at Estádio do Dragão
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/feb/21/porto-arsenal-champions-league-last-16-first-leg-match-report under the title “Galeno stunner gives Porto narrow advantage over lacklustre Arsenal”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
