Draw UEL R16 1st Leg: Sporting CP 2 - 2 Arsenal | Thursday, March 9 | KO: 17:45 GMT | BT Sport

@A_G

Spoiler: And look who we play next, ffs...

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Remember away goals mean nothing but what important we avoid defeat and sporting will miss 2 players in 2nd leg.

But imo very disappointing defensive display here just too casual no taking responsibility.

 

[Riou]

Are you watching on BT? When Keown said “it’s nice to hear an honest opinion from”, and then the camera zoomed in on him, I thought he was going to say “from a woman”.

MY possible sexist CB...

 

[Sniper Mik]

Odd game. Poor at the back and were punished. No injuries and hopefully one or two back for Sunday so decent result overall.

Who is coming back though? Trossard, Eddie are still out. Martinelli and Saka both knackered

 

[GDeep™]

Saka can't be in the England squad. The club needs to give him a little "injury".

He’s not missing England games lol.

 

[Paperino]

Saka played 90 minutes and Teta didnt even use all his subs. Indefensible.

 

[avenellroad]

Saka can't be in the England squad. The club needs to give him a little "injury".

Don’t know what the point of him showing up would be. Southgate should call up other options he wants to take a look at.

 

[Iwobeast]

difficult away game sunday early kick off and Teta does this

 

[RandomHero84]

Not very good. Looked like we had been instructed to play at a lower tempo or something.

Ultimately we should win the home leg. Let's be honest, none of us care that much this time anyway.

 

[Riou]

Fair result really, got a tad lucky with the rotations though, especially at the back.

Ramsdale, Gabriel and Saliba should really be playing every match together...Jorginho is a fine option to rest Partey though.

 

[Badger_Revenge]

Why are these Europa league matches always so strange?

 

[Sniper Mik]

Detestable competition truly. We are gonna suffer big time against Fulham

 

[GoonerJeeves]

Saka can't be in the England squad. The club needs to give him a little "injury".

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Who is coming back though? Trossard, Eddie are still out. Martinelli and Saka both knackered

Ødegaard and Tierney I’m hoping shake their illness off. The more bodies the better. The injury to Trossard was such a shame

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Okay result without our midfield maestro and no striker. Rotation was okay apart from playing Saka. Now let's beat Fulham.

 

[Blood on the Tracks]

Hope this puts and end to people wanting to see Kiwi play in the PL. Not this season he shouldn't be.

Turner dodgy.

Vieira got the assist but he needs to impose himself on games more. He just flits around on the periphery. Needs to take it by the scruff of the neck.

For the EL it's fine but these sort of guys don't need to be getting too much PL gametime in a title race.

I'm confident we will go through quite comfortably at The Emirates with a similar side anyway.

Reiss looked lively. Needs to demand the ball more and kick off when he doesn't get it when he's open and in space. It happened a number of times in the first half.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Arteta need to leave this high defence line alone when he rotate its look complicated for Turner and kiwi to execute it specially when you play Zinchenko.

 

[Ljonin]

Worried about Saka. When the actual **** will he get a rest if Arteta can’t even let him sit out this game?!

 

[SA Gunner]

difficult away game sunday early kick off and Teta does this

Its just short of 3 days later.

Think Saka gets a rest from at least one training in the build up to Fulham. And as long as there are no injuries, we should be alright.

 

[boxerumble]

That’s my fear. Fulham on the weekend will not be an easy test by any means…

 

[SA Gunner]

Worried about Saka. When the actual **** will he get a rest if Arteta can’t even let him sit out this game?!

Said earlier, that Saka's probably on about 30 games with us now, 35 if you add the world cup. That's alright if you think about it.