text: Time & Location
  Nov 26, 2024, 3:00 PM EST
  Dillon's, 955 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
  Arsenal travel to Lisbon to face Sporting CP in a crucial Champions League clash. Fresh off a commanding 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest at the weekend underscored by Martin Ødegaard's full return, the Gunners sit a point off second in the domestic table. However, their European campaign is less certain; they currently sit 12th in the Champions League league stage, two points off the top eight required for automatic knockout qualification. With four matches remaining, Arsenal need victories and a boost to their goal difference. Arsenal's history against Sporting is limited but eventful, including a two-legged win in the famous 1969/70 Fairs Cup campaign, a win and draw in the 2018 Europa League group stage, and a painful exit on penalties in the 2022/23 Europa League Round of 16.
  Reigning Portuguese champions Sporting are in scintillating form domestically, topping the Primera Liga table with a six-point lead over Porto. Last season marked their second league title in four years after a 20-year-gap. The Leões also currently sit second in the Champions League table, highlighting their form. Now managed by João Pereira after Rúben Amorim’s departure for Manchester United, they will be without injured playmaker Pedro Gonçalves and veteran Nuno Santos. However, Viktor Gyökeres, the hat-trick hero of Sporting's recent 4-1 thumping of Manchester City, poses a major threat as one of Europe's in-form strikers. Arsenal will need to be at their sharpest to overcome Sporting’s technical brilliance and physical intensity on home soil.
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