Arsenal vs Porto Prediction: Team News and Lineups Preview

Matthew O’Regan is on hand to deliver his Arsenal vs Porto prediction, team news, lineups and fixtures preview. With the Portuguese Primeira Liga side stealing a last minute winner in the first fixture, it could be set up for an absolute cracker at the Emirates. Whenever Arsenal step onto the field there is going to be goals, however they will need to be at their best to overcome the 2004 champions and book their place into the Champions League quarter finals.

With that in mind, Matthew O’Regan has prepared three goal-based bets. Our Arsenal vs Porto prediction is for Arsenal to win the match 3-1

• Arsenal vs Porto Tip 1: Bukayo Saka to score
• Arsenal vs Porto Tip 2: Arsenal To Score Over 2.5 Goals
• Arsenal vs Porto Tip 3: Both Teams To Score

Arsenal vs Porto Prediction 1: Saka full of goals

UEFA , Champions League, Tuesday 12th March, 21:00 (UK)

Arsenal’s number seven is in top form heading into the second leg of this tie. In the Premier League, Bukayo Saka has scored 13 goals, which is by far the most of any Arsenal player. In the last six games where Saka has played more than 60 minutes for the Gunners, he has scored seven goals and has three Champions League goals this season.

Furthermore, he leads the team in all competitions for xG, with 12.7 on the season, which he is comfortably outperforming.

He was kept to one of his quietest games of the season in the first leg, but with the Emirates crowd behind him and his team, it will be very tough to stop one of the nation’s best once again.

For Arsenal, this game is undoubtedly a must-win, and they will be hoping to secure a comfortable one to take into the next round for some added confidence, and with the help of being on penalties too, Saka is certainly the best Arsenal player to be putting money on to score.

• Arsenal vs Porto Tip 1: Bukayo Saka to Score
• Best Odds: 2.25
• Bookmaker: bet365
• Stake: 7/10

Arsenal vs Porto Prediction 2: Home Domination

Going forward, on form, Arsenal are the most on-fire side in the whole of Europe; they have scored 37 goals in the last seven Premier League games, an average of over five per game, and the goals are coming from everywhere on the pitch.

Before the second half against Sheffield United on Monday night, a game where they were 5-0 up at half-time, Arteta’s team had scored two or more goals in seven consecutive Premier League halves of football.

Arsenal have also scored in the last eleven halves of football they have played (in England), so especially with them needing at least a goal, they should come naturally and fast for this bet to be a winner.

Seventeen different players have hit the back of the net this season in all competitions, and when it is going to matter most, Arsenal will certainly back themselves to get the job done and make it as comfortable as possible in North London.

• Arsenal vs Porto Tip 2: Arsenal Over 2.5 Goals
• Best Odds: 2.00
• Bookmaker: bet365
• Stake: 7/10

Arsenal vs Porto Prediction 3: Arsenal’s tough defence to finally be Breached

Even if Porto are to go behind early on, they have shown this season they are more than capable of coming back in games. Only five teams managed to score more than 15 goals in the group stages of the Champions League this season: Man City, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal and Porto.

Porto have gone without a goal in just one of their last fourteen games in all competitions, and come into this one on great form, beating title rivals Benfica 5-0 last weekend. They also have the competition’s joint top scorer (before this round of fixtures) in Galeno, who was the man to break Arsenal’s hearts in the first fixture with his winner.

The Gunners need to come out of the blocks quickly to make the tie level once again, and if that’s the case, Porto will need to come out of their defence-minded football and look for goals, so both teams scoring is certainly on the cards.

• Arsenal vs Porto Tip 3: Both Teams To Score
• Best Odds: 2.20
• Bookmaker: bet365
• Stake: 7/5

Arsenal vs Porto Prediction odds via bet365 as at 00:00 March 7th, 2024. Odds may now differ.

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What are you expecting from the Porto game? A comfortable win for the Gunners or something similar that we saw at Estadio Dragao?

“Porto will try to kill the game, to keep hold of the ball and waste time. The more time they’ll gain, that would play on the nerves of the Arsenal side.”

“Arsenal need to score early to settle, but I think the game will be more open than the first leg. The second leg? ‘It’s always the case.”

“Arsenal cannot concede first because then they’ll be up against a block that will be super low and difficult to break. Patience then will be even more crucial.”

“If they can score first, that would be a good advantage.”

Arsenal vs Porto Team News and Possible Lineups:  Arsenal Fit and Firing

Bar Jurrien Timber, who was injured on his Premier League debut in August, and Tatehiro Tomiyasu, Arsenal are expected to be full strength heading into this game.

Porto are without the veteran goalscoring centre back, Ivan Marcano, and marauding full back Zaidu Sanusi, both of whom are absent with ACL injuries. The clinical Mehdi Taremi is also out with a thigh injury sustained in February.

Arsenal possible starting lineup: Raya; White, Gabriel, Saliba, Kiwior; Jorginho, Rice, Ødegaard; Saka, Havertz, Martinelli

Porto possible starting lineup: Costa; Mario, Pepe, Otavio, Wendell; Gonzales, Varela; Conceicao, Pepe, Galeno; Evanilson

Arsenal vs Porto Fixtures: Make or Break Month For Gunners

• Vs Porto (H)
• Vs Man City (A)
• Vs Luton (H)
• Vs Arsenal (A)
• Vs Aston Villa (H)

Team B Fixtures: Treble Chasing Porto

• Vs Arsenal (A)
• Vs Vizela (H)
• Vs Estoril(A)
• Vs Vitoria (A)
• Vs Vitoria (H)

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