Sporting Lisbon v Arsenal Betting Tips [26 November 2024]

Arsenal have a tough outing in the Champions League, heading out to Portugal to face Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday. Sporting will start the week placed second in the league phase while Arsenal are 12th. Read on for our preview and prediction of the match.

Under Joao Pereira, Sporting started the post Ruben Amorim era with a 6-0 win over Amarante in the Portuguese Cup. They are on a nine-match winning run and among those was a 4-1 annihilation of Manchester City in the last round.

The Portuguese giants will want to add another Premier League side to their list of victims.

The Gunners will be looking to bounce back after their loss in the last round. They will be boosted by their comfortable 3-0 win against Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Saturday.

The visitors are reaping from a number of players returning from injuries and have looked more confident in their last two matches. Mikel Arteta could still afford to rest a number of key men for the Nottingham game. Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz and Declan Rice didn’t play at all.

With one win in four matches, however, there’s a feeling they’ll be the underdogs in Portugal. In the four meetings between these teams, Arsenal have never lost in regular time. They have one win and most recently lost on post-match penalties.

Sporting are enjoying a good run and even after the departure of Ruben Amorim, they haven't missed a beat. After thrashing Manchester City in the last round, they’ll be confident of finally getting a win over Arsenal in regular time.

In Arsenal’s first visit to Sporting in 2018, they managed a 1-0 win. They’ve failed to add on to that in the other three times they faced off. In the two teams’ current forms, our prediction for Sporting Lisbon v Arsenal is for Sporting Lisbon to win.