Arsenal v Porto LIVE: Champions League result and final score as Gunners win penalty shootout

Arsenal and Porto will be hoping to join Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain in Friday’s quarter-final draw.

Barcelona host Napoli tonight after a 1-1 draw in Italy, while tomorrow Inter travel to Atletico Madrid looking to protect their 1-0 lead and Borussia Dortmund host PSV after a 1-1 draw in the first leg.

Mikel Arteta on improving on the first leg, using the Emirates crowd and the form of Kai Havertz: “He needed a bit of time, a bit of love, and now things are clicking.”

Kai Havertz is enjoying his best run of form since his big-money move from Chelsea this summer, with his late winner against Brentford on Saturday seeing him score for a fourth Premier League game in a row.

Arteta said afterwards: “If somebody told me after the first two or three months that the whole stadium would be singing his song with that passion, with that feeling, with that chemistry, I would have found it hard to believe.

“That’s what happens to good people. He’s an exceptional player. When he starts to score goals like this and everything starts to flow people feel more connected with him.

“They see his work rate, they see his intelligence, they see how he plays for the team and how he’s contributing. It’s impossible not to love him.”

Declan Rice is the only Arsenal player at risk of a suspension ahead of tonight’s match. The midfielder was booked early on in the first leg for a late challenge on Galeno and would be ruled out of the quarter-final first leg if he is booked and Arsenal make it through.

Sergio Conceicao unsurprisingly sticks with the same XI who won the first leg 1-0. Evanilson has 21 goals in 32 games and leads the line, with first-leg match-winner Galeno on the left wing.

Costa; Joao Mario, Pepe, Otavio, Wendell; Varela, Nico Gonzalez; Francisco Conceicao, Eduardo Pepe, Galeno; Evanilson.

Subs: Claudio Ramos, Fabio Cardoso, Eustaquio, Grujic, Taremi, Sanchez, Jaime, Namaso, Romario Baro, Toni Martinez, Goncalo Borges, Ze Pedro.

There were 36 fouls during the first-leg in Porto, the most in a Champions League match this season.

Galeno scored last-minute winner with a superb curling strike, but Arsenal lacked quality and could not establish any momentum in the game.

Porto did not mind that it was not a good watch.

Afterwards, boss Sergio Conceicao claimed: “They (Arsenal) wanted to play, we wanted to win.”

Mikel Arteta makes one change to the team which beat Brentford, as David Raya returns in goal to replace Aaron Ramsdale. Jorginho keeps his place in midfield and Kai Havertz again leads the line in a false nine role.

Raya; White, Gabriel, Saliba, Kiwior; Odegaard, Jorginho, Rice; Saka, Havertz, Trossard.

Subs: Ramsdale, Hein, Tomiyasu, Cedric, Zinchenko, Elneny, Partey, Vieira, Smith Rowe, Nelson, Nketiah, Jesus.

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Mikel Arteta on the importance of keeping “control” against Porto as Arsenal chase down their 1-0 lead.

“The game context is very important. We know that we have a long match to play. There are moments that could go your way and that it can change dramatically quick.

“That’s the Champions League and you have to be ready for these kind of games. We’re certainly going to have to tweak a few things to generate much more than we did (in Porto). It’s the level of the Champions League.

“You’re facing top teams. The fact that there are two games plays in your mind and we have to be better.”

Around the Arsenal training ground over the last 48 hours, there’s been a new giddiness, at least for this team. Anyone can sense the anticipation to play in what feels like the first major European home game in a long time. Mikel Arteta radiated it on the eve of the second leg against Porto, as he told fans to “bring your energy, bring your noise and let’s do it together”.

The Arsenal manager did insist that emotion needs to be controlled, as he spoke about going through “certain phases” in trying to turn over this 1-0 deficit.

One phase evidently matters most to him, as he essentially revealed just how much he has been thinking about this. That’s the opening spell. Arsenal have recently become adept at finishing games almost as soon as they start. It is a real danger for Porto on Tuesday, although something that manager Sergio Conceicao will doubtless be preparing for, given that Pep Guardiola made such a point of mentioning it.

After Manchester City’s 1-1 draw with Liverpool, the Catalan said Arsenal just “need 25 minutes to go 3-0 up”. Jurgen Klopp echoed that by talking about a side “firing on all cylinders”. They’re on turbo from kick-off.

Big match preview, by Miguel Delaney