Arsenal vs Sporting team news<\/strong><\/p>\nThe five were all absent at London Colney, though Mikel Arteta suggested that “maybe one” of Timber and Saka could return tonight.<\/p>\n
Christian Norgaard, who could come into the starting line-up, and Martin Zubimendi are both one yellow card away from being suspended for any semi-final first leg.<\/p>\n
Sporting have key midfielder Morten Hjulmand back after suspension, bringing them almost back to full strength.<\/p>\n
Key forward Luis Suarez, who was signed as Viktor Gyokeres’ replacement, is available after an administrative error initially ruled him out of contention.<\/p>\n
Arsenal vs Sporting prediction<\/strong><\/p>\nArsenal are suffering somewhat of a wobble as they approach do-or-die territory in the season, with their creativity severely lacking.<\/p>\n
They were lucky to come away from Portugal with a first-leg lead, and Wednesday\u2019s visitors will know there is an opportunity to cause a huge upset.<\/p>\n
That could play into Arsenal\u2019s hands though, with Sporting having to go for broke. An early goal will set the tone.<\/p>\n
Arsenal 2-1 Sporting (agg. 3-1)<\/p>\n
Head to head (h2h) history and results<\/strong><\/p>\nArsenal vs Sporting match odds<\/strong><\/p>\nArsenal to progress: 1\/25<\/p>\n
Sporting to progress: 10\/1<\/p>\n
Odds via Betfair (subject to change).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A home defeat to Bournemouth last time out, which has hampered their Premier League title ambitions, will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,73831,14],"class_list":["post-895190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sporting","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116407535654828967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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