More of a chance for them to win the NBA finals and the Super Bowl than to win a title in Europe. Stick those bottlers in the Conference League and Fiorentina still beats them 3-0. Guarantee it
this might be one of my favorite games ive wacthed. the way both sides played was amazing. i was really shocked of how good the players of sporting are and their chemistry is amazing. i enjoyed watching them play as a team
Before the game I was suspecting Sporting was going to be thrashed by Arsenal in London, but they pulled out a performance incredible enough to eliminate the EPL leader against all odds. This Europa League has a lot of quality teams.
5:50 beautiful goal 😲 (Puskas worthy!) These types of goals are not a given -- the distance the accuracy and the precision power to not overshoot is world class 👍
*Nothing but respect for Arsenal, they gave Sporting all they could handle over the 2 legs and absolutely deserve to go through (but unfortunately couldn't).
@@Pako-X its fine we need to have enough rest to focus on winning the league while sporting won't win shit. I'm not salty, just relieved those midweek games are done and we get to have rest between games now. We have a short squad and need to add in the summer
@@GunnerSol Sporting won't win shit. The next team won't wait till 20 minutes left to put in the rest of the starters, and there will be no freak-occurrence wonder goal from midfield. Arteta thought he could get away with saving a lot of the stars for the league run for one more round, it backfired. Really still should have one even though Partey and Odegaard didn't come on till very late; Sporting did nothing after they came on except their keeper pulled a few good saves. We should've put at least one more in, had plenty of chances - especially the last 15 of regulation and extra time. Learning lessons the hard way; Mikel is still a new coach... hard to realize how young he is to his career as fast as he's taken off.
What a classic! The tenseness all game was amazing, but the keepers for both sides were impeccable all night. Especially Sporting keeper Adan, who played the game of his life. What I also find interesting is the way we all knew Martinelli would miss, because all game he was not clinical. The icing on the cake though is definitely that unreal goal for Sporting, but also the Sporting manager walking off the pitch at 14:06 like an Avenger like his team did not just play the game of their lives 🤣🤣 what a legend
As it came down to penalty kicks, I knew Arsenal was at a disadvantage, due to the magnificent goalkeeper Adan, he didn't disappoint, I gave him man of the match.
Too bad Arteta isn't Van Gal who saves a penalty goalie on the bench like he did in the world cup with Krul. Karl Hein is a penalty master and should be on our bench whenever we have a possibility of going to pens.
Best result tbh. No one wants to play on Thursday when they gotta play on the weekends, its less rest and with injuries to main players we could lose the league, now we get a week in-between games at best and if we win which I think we will, we get to attract the best possible players to strengthen our short handed squad. Some players gotta go to strengthen. Players wanna join champions usually
I’ve been critical of this referee many times in the past with his questionable decisions. But credit to him for playing advantage for the incredible Sporting goal!
Assist to the ref for the incredible advantage played before the Sporting goal. What a game! Hot take but I think the Europa League has had more exciting games than the Champions league this year.
Such a wonderful series to watch. That Sporting goal was absolutely fantastic!! I've never seen a goal like that in my life!! Great job all around to both teams there. At least Arsenal have a chance to be in the Champions League next year.
As an Arsenal fan, Sporting played really well. Especially their GK. Honestly I feel it's good that we get a defeat internationally now before we return next year, gives us some good refleciton.
This was a game I expected Arsenal to win by at least two goals given that it took place at the Emirates, so I must say that Sporting were surprisingly firm and equal to the opposition. - Antonio Adan gets most of the credit for the win given the crucial saves he made to keep his team in the game before denying Martinelli from the spot during the shootout - This will be a game that Aaron Ramsdale needs to brush off given the equalizer he conceded (might have felt like a soft goal to give away I don't know), and for not saving any penalties during the shootout (have to say that these were absolute rockets though)
It's bizarre to me how today's goalkeepers are more valued for their ability to receive and pass the ball with their feet, than for their athletic ability to make actual saves. Ramsdale is nothing special at actual goalkeeping.
Agreed. It's interesting how there was not much criticism towards Ramsdale's bad performance, lost of "he guessed right, but nothing he could do.".......If that was the backup, he would be getting trashed all day, all night, all week.
As a Spurs fan (yes, I’m used to the trophy-less period for us), here’s hoping this is the calm before the storm for Arsenal. Class from Sporting tonight
As an Arsenal supporter waiting to relive the glory years and yesterday's of the Invincibles, this was sad and hurt to watch. Take NOTHING away from that Sporting CP goal, though--it was world-class in execution and actually went in!
@@stansmith5610 almost every team needs a world class player in a certain position to make the difference man! Still the same arsenal..fuk if ccity doesnt catch them. And look at their schedule 😂😂
Love how Arsenal fans are saying who cares about this competition. They cared before they lost. Also funny a striker is the one to miss. That’s his only job
If Arsenal had on more of the first team it would’ve been even more interesting to how the game turned out but props to Sporting especially the keeper! It was a great game to watch nonetheless!
Did you watch the game? This is football. That's why we love this sport. I saw another game, villareal vs anderlech and very similar. Anderlech had 1 chance they took it. Villareal had at least 10 ultra clear they didn't. Anderlech goalkeeper, amazing, stop everything. Same here. Sporting goalkeeper, amazing. This is why I love this sport. The little team can screw the big one in any single day.
What a way to knock out the best team in England! That goal put a smile on every Spurs fan's face. And everyone who loves the underdog story in football. However, it may be a blessing in disguise for Arsenal to be out of Europa. It forces them to narrow their focus on beating Man City for the league. City meanwhile will have one eye on the Champions League which is the bigger prize for them anyway. We may look back on this game as the day that Arsenal wrapped up the title.
You know what people are noticing that Sporting’s goal was caused by a mistake of Xhaka….one reason and it’s that Jorginho passed it to him and he passed it back by just thinking and not lifting up his head and sees that Jorginho is struggling and 3 sporting players where with Jorginho
I am a benfica fan , so that means I HATE sporting . But I was rooting for them so hard yesterday . They did an amazing job , and I hope they get more recognition as well as the whole Portuguese league
Credit to Sporting Lisbon for playing their game and scoring a spectualar goal when winning the game on penalties down to 10 men... We were not at the races today and don't deserve the right to play... We were slow and labourous and without ideas all game long... And hopefully, Sporting wins Europa League and we have to focus on the Premier League now...
Disappointing loss for Arsenal but at least they now can focus on the Premier League. GG for sporting btw they played very, very good. Also that goal from sporting was beautiful like damn
Those calling Arsenal average, sure we didn't have our best game but we had good chances, we just came up against Adan who had a magnificent game in goal. Doesn't make us trash. When Barca was the best team in the world they used to lose to Rubin Kazan and Celta Vigo in the champions league and La Liga respectively but no one called Barca shitty. To be honest I wasn't even sad because I rather we win the prem for the first time in 19yrs as this is our good chance and given our latest injuries to the main players, I rather we just focus on the prem which was hard when we play in Europe 2 days before each other fixture with injuries to Jesus, Partey and co. The goal is to head back to the champions league with no issues. I rather we win the prem than win the europa and lose the prem. Now city has more to worry about than us 😂
We played a 4-4-2 to start and then moved to a 3-4-3 to match Sporting after the injuries. Never really looked comfortable in either of those formations. In extra time we finally moved to a 4-3-3 and finally started plying!!
