Sporting CP vs Arsenal Prediction, Odds and Lineups: Back Saka to find the back of the net
Arsenal make the trip to Man City's conquerors Sporting CP in the Champions League on Wednesday night.
Sporting CP have been fantastic in the Champions League this season but it will be interesting to see how they adapt to life without Ruben Amorim, who is now in charge of Man United.
The match kicks-off at 8pm and can be watched live on TNT Sports 1.
Sporting vs Arsenal Predictions
Sporting Lisbon have been nearly perfect so far in the Champions League. They have yet to lose a game and have won 3 out of 4 games. They hammered Manchester City in their last European match and will look to do the same against Arsenal this week. However, since their 4-0 victory over Manchester City, they have lost their manager, Ruben Amorim, who recently joined Manchester United.
Without Amorim, I expect Sporting to struggle in this game, and Arsenal is certainly not an easy competition. They have had a solid start to their Champions League campaign and a win over Sporting could put them in an automatic qualification position. Arsenal have the better side and with Sporting losing their manager recently I am backing the Gunners to win this one at odds of 6/5
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Arsenal's main man, Bukayo Saka, found himself on the scoresheet in last weekend's game against Nottingham Forrest, and I am backing the English winger to do it again against Sporting.
Saka has only scored one goal in the Champions League so far this season, and he will be desperate to improve on that number. He is by far Arsenal's best player and is a constant goal threat in almost every game he plays. Saka constantly finds himself in good goal-scoring opportunities and is not afraid of shooting whenever he gets the chance. I am expecting Arsenal to create multiple chances for Saka against Sporting and feel like the odds of 12/5 for him to find the net are far too high.
Sporting vs Arsenal Lineups
Man of the moment Viktor Gyokeres starts for the hosts, as does winger Marcus Edwards.
Mikel Arteta has made four changes to his Arsenal side, bringing in Declan Rice, Kai Havertz, Thomas Partey and Gabriel Martinelli.
The full starting lineups for Sporting vs Arsenal are displayed in the graphic below.
| # | Starting XI | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franco Israel Wibmer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Gonçalo Bernardo Inácio | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Ousmane Diomande | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Jeremiah St. Juste | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Maximiliano Javier Araújo Vilches | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Hidemasa Morita | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | Morten Due Hjulmand | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 | Geovany Tcherno Quenda | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Marcus Edwards | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Francisco António Machado Mota Castro Trincão | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Viktor Einar Gyökeres | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Substitutes | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | João Pedro Arnauth Barrocas Simões | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Diego Callai Silva | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Geny Cipriano Catamo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Iván Fresneda Corraliza | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Conrad Harder Weibel Schandorf | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Vladan Kovačević | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 78 | Mauro Meireles Couto | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 66 | Miguel Monteiro Alves | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Matheus Reis de Lima | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Daniel Santos Bragança | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Alexandre Miguel Soares Carvalho Brito | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | Ricardo Sousa Esgaio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Starting XI | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | David Raya Martin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | Riccardo Calafiori | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Gabriel dos Santos Magalhães | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | William Alain André Gabriel Saliba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Jurriën David Norman Timber | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Declan Rice | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Thomas Teye Partey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Martin Ødegaard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Gabriel Teodoro Martinelli Silva | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Kai Lukas Havertz | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Bukayo Ayoyinka Temidayo Saka | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Substitutes | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Jorge Luiz Frello Filho | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Tommy Hogan Setford | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Jakub Piotr Kiwior | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | Myles Anthony Lewis-Skelly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Mikel Merino Zazón | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Norberto Murara Neto | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | Ethan Chidiebere Nwaneri | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Raheem Shaquille Sterling | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Kieran Tierney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Leandro Trossard | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Oleksandr Zinchenko | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Gabriel Fernando de Jesus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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