{"id":155058,"date":"2024-02-23T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/23\/4-takeaways-from-arsenals-humbling-champions-league-loss-at-porto\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:24:56","slug":"4-takeaways-from-arsenals-humbling-champions-league-loss-at-porto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/23\/4-takeaways-from-arsenals-humbling-champions-league-loss-at-porto\/","title":{"rendered":"4 takeaways from Arsenal\u2019s humbling Champions League loss at Porto \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arsenal\u2019s nine-year wait to win a Champions League knockout stage match will go on for at least another three weeks after they were beaten 1-0 by Porto in the first leg of their last 16 tie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gunners lost to a 94th-minute screamer from Wenderson Galeno to ensure they go into the return fixture at the Emirates Stadium one goal down on aggregate.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s affair at the Estadio do Dragao was not a particularly pulsating one until Galeno popped up with the last-gasp winner, capping off a rather miserable night for Mikel Arteta\u2019s men.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we learned from Arsenal\u2019s disappointing first leg showing.<\/p>\n

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The bright spotlight cast on David Raya\u2019s glaring deficiencies<\/h2>\n
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Raya has been criticised for his role in the goal \/ Eurasia Sport Images\/GettyImages<\/p>\n

Alright, Galeno\u2019s strike is a beauty, but we cannot overlook the fact it lands in the\u00a0bottom<\/em>\u00a0corner, looping over the helpless David Raya.<\/p>\n

The Spain international may have proven to be better and more useful to\u00a0Arsenal\u00a0than Aaron Ramsdale this season, but goalkeeper remains a problem position. Any stopper worth his salt should not be getting beaten by this strike.<\/p>\n

Raya is barely 6ft tall and did not make any adjustment to his positioning to compensate in this instance. Maybe that\u2019s a bit of bad luck, but he has a habit of conceding these kinds of goals from range \u2013 he just doesn\u2019t have the height to keep out these sorts of finishes. That\u2019s a problem if you\u2019re trying to win the Premier League and Champions League.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal lag way behind their rivals with their attacking depth<\/h2>\n
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Martinelli was nullified \/ Eurasia Sport Images\/GettyImages<\/p>\n

The story of Liverpool\u2019s season on the pitch so far has been their ability to rotate in a cast of highly-skilled and dangerous attackers amid their injury crisis. Manchester City are famous for \u2018Pep roulette\u2019 in FPL.<\/p>\n

But you know exactly who is going to fill three of Arsenal\u2019s four attacking slots \u2013 Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Gabriel Martinelli and then one of Leandro Trossard or Gabriel Jesus.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s now a predictability about the Gunners\u2019 attack and they don\u2019t have the flexibility or depth to change how they play when in need of a goal. There\u2019s been a lot of talk about Arsenal needing to add a new number nine this summer, but a wide forward to provide extra competition should also be high on their list of priorities.<\/p>\n

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Mikel Arteta\u2019s European record is becoming a serious concern<\/h2>\n
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Arteta is yet to translate Arsenal\u2019s domestic success into Europe \/ Eurasia Sport Images\/GettyImages<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta deserves credit for managing to tame what used to be a basket-case of Arsenal into one of the world\u2019s most competent teams. Their European record with him at the helm requires further scrutiny, however.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal were knocked out of the Europa League at the last 32 stage by Olympiacos in 2020, before falling to Arteta\u2019s predecessor Unai Emery and Villarreal in a limp semi-final showing a year later. When the Gunners returned to the Europa League last season, they were eliminated by Sporting CP in the round of 16 despite playing close to full-strength sides in both legs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not great viewing. Arsenal have not faced a single team who have undoubtedly been better than them in Europe under\u00a0Arteta\u00a0but still their record has been awful.<\/p>\n

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F*** around, find out<\/h2>\n
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A testing night for Arsenal \/ Eurasia Sport Images\/GettyImages<\/p>\n

During the group stage, Arsenal learned they were getting shown too much respect at home, but they had to fight for every inch away, breezing through games at the Emirates Stadium but winning only once on their travels.<\/p>\n

This led to Arteta\u2019s conservative approach at Porto, which was not in-keeping with recent performances on the road at West Ham United and Burnley. Arsenal slowed the game down and played for set pieces but failed to register a single shot on target, and they were ultimately punished for not strutting their usual stuff.<\/p>\n

Post-match, Arteta strangely claimed that Arsenal were the only side who had any intention of playing football.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey wanted to play, we wanted to win,\u201d was Porto boss Sergio Conceicao\u2019s rightful retort.<\/p>\n

If that was seriously Arsenal trying to play football, they\u2019ll be in for a rude awakening trying to break down Conceicao\u2019s esteemed deep block back at the Emirates.<\/p>\n

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