Arsenal at Sporting CP Champions League
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Rio Ferdinand believes the season has reached a decisive stage where experience will play a crucial role, particularly as Arsenal continue to struggle for consistency. The Gunners are only a few
Arsenal won it very late against Sporting CP in their UEFA Champions League quarterfinals match, continuing a pattern of what to expect from the Gunners this season.
The visitors have suffered back-to-back defeats heading into Tuesday’s quarterfinal first leg.
This win was not a vintage Arsenal performance but beating Sporting could prove to be a pivotal moment in the Gunners' season. Arsenal had been criticised after two successive defeats and looked like they would be frustrated again before Kai Havertz scored the dramatic winner.
Kai Havertz struck in stoppage-time to snatch a 1-0 victory for Arsenal over Sporting CP in the Champions League. The Gunners had for 90 minutes been ponderous and uninspiring in attack, seemingly content to return to north London with a goalless draw at the halfway stage of their quarter-final tie.
The Gunners ran riot on their previous visit to Lisbon.
Kai Havertz scores a stoppage-time winner as Arsenal beat Sporting 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final in Lisbon.
Gabriel Magalhaes' FA Cup matchday at Southampton ended after 72 minutes as the Arsenal center back sat on the turf with an eye to his right leg.
David Raya is the best goalkeeper in the world, according to his Arsenal team-mates - and the Spaniard played a key role in his side's 1-0 win at Sporting.