The former Boca started and was injured before extra time in Porto’s 4-2 defeat against Arsenal in the penalty shootout, after drawing 1-1 on aggregate.
It took 14 years for Arsenal return to the quarterfinals of the Champions Leaguean instance to which he returned after defeating at home Porto (1-0, 4-2 on penalties), who left with the bitter taste of the injury of Alan Varelawho left on a stretcher before extra time began.
Since the 2009-10 season, when the Barcelona of Lionel Messi eliminated it, which Arsenalcurrent leader of the Premier Leaguedid not get among the eight best of the Champions League. And he achieved it by overcoming a 0-1 deficit in the first leg, held in Do Dragao, which he had achieved Porto. Arsenal were able to define the key in the 90 minutes, but Martin Odegaard had a goal disallowed for a previous infraction by Kai Havertz on Pepe, at 21′ from ST.
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No more goals would be seen again until the penalty round – the first in the Champions League since the 2016 final between Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid – in which Raya grew bigger to frustrate the Brazilians Pepê first and Galeno later, and lead Arsenal to Friday’s draw among the eight best in Europe.
Barcelona, in the quarterfinals for the first time since 2020
Barcelona beat 3-1 Naples in the round of 16 second leg of the Champions League and qualified for the quarterfinals for the first time since 2020. Fermín put the Barça team ahead (15) and Joao Cancelo extended the score (17), before Amir Rrahmani pulled one back for Napoli (30) and Robert Lewandowski made it 3-1 (83), leaving the tie 4-2 in favor of the Catalans.
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Barcelona will be in the quarterfinals again Champions League four years later, while Naples Not only was it eliminated, as was Portobut also lost his chances of being in the Club World Cup. “We continue in this competition, which we were very excited about, the objective is still intact, so I am very pleased and very happy,” he said. Xavi Hernandez after the game, convinced that “the move to the quarterfinals is well deserved.”
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