Sporting v Arsenal LIVE: Result and final score as Gunners rip through hosts in Champions League
The Gunners have now won three of their five games so far in this season’s Champions League
Arsenal delivered the statement Champions League win Mikel Arteta had demanded as they swept aside Sporting 5-1.
Arteta wanted his team to prove their European credentials following some underwhelming displays away from home, and the Gunners manager got exactly what he asked for.
Goals from Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Magalhaes, Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard got their continental campaign back on track in style following the 1-0 defeat at Inter Milan last time out.
Josko Gvardiol’s City disasterclass snatches ignominy from victory
Manchester City 3-3 Feyenoord: Pep Guardiola’s team were cruising towards a long-awaited win and yet somehow contrived to throw away a three-goal lead with 16 minutes remaining:
Josko Gvardiol’s City disasterclass snatches ignominy from victory
Manchester City 3-3 Feyenoord: Pep Guardiola’s team were cruising towards a long-awaited win and yet somehow contrived to throw away a three-goal lead with 16 minutes remaining
Meanwhile in Manchester...
Manchester City squandered a three-goal lead to draw 3-3 with Dutch side Feyenoord in the Champions League on Tuesday in another calamitous performance from Pep Guardiola’s stuttering side.
Erling Haaland bagged a brace for the hosts, but huge defensive blunders in the dying minutes saw them fall to 15th in the Champions League table on eight points.
Haaland got City on the scoresheet in the 45th minute with a blistering penalty kick past Timon Wellenreuther after he was fouled in the box.
Ilkay Gundogan doubled the lead in the 50th minute with a low long-range shot that took a deflection in, before Haaland completed his brace three minutes later when he stabbed home Matheus Nunes’ cross for his 46th goal in Europe’s elite competition.
Astonishingly, Feyenoord replied with three goals inside 15 minutes, first from Anis Hadj Moussa, who pounced on a careless ball back from Josko Gvardiol in the 75th minute. Then Santiago Gimenez struck seven minutes later when he chested in Jordan Lotomba’s cross, created from another wayward Gvardiol pass.
David Hancko got the equaliser in the 89th minute when City keeper Ederson was beaten by Igor Paixao who sent a cross to Hancko to head in.
Full-time: Sporting 1-5 Arsenal
The moment Gabriel scored – and dropped the Gyokeres celebration...
Gabriel makes it 3-0 to Arsenal just before the break with a towering header! 💥
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) November 26, 2024
He also hit Gyökeres' celebration 👀
📺 @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK pic.twitter.com/rk9r8ysvtg
Full-time: Sporting 1-5 Arsenal
Martin Keown on TNT Sports: “Timber was really impressive, Raya making eight good saves. It’s some statement. You see what Sporting did to City, so all in all a very good night for Arsenal.”
Full-time: Sporting 1-5 Arsenal
A superb performance by Arsenal, who were far too good tonight. Sporting had their moments but never really looked like turning the game around, and the penalty killed it off.
Sporting 1-5 Arsenal
90 min: Almost No 6 for Arsenal as Trossard fires a ball across goal, but it’s slightly behind Havertz and the German can’t contort his legs to make proper contact.
Sporting 1-5 Arsenal
86 min: Excellent by Gyokeres, who drives at Kiwior and surges by him and into the box before firing a left-footed shot against the post! Replays show Raya got the faintest touch on the ball.
Sporting 1-5 Arsenal
85 min: Gabriel looks in a little discomfort and is replaced by Kiwior.
GOAL! Sporting 1-5 Arsenal (Trossard, 82 min)
Sporting are easily opened up by Nwaneri driving in from the right, who lends it to Merino on the edge of the box. His fierce shot is spilled by Israel and there’s Leandro Trossard in the right place to nod home the rebound.
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