Two-time Portuguese champion Sporting lost 1-0 today to Arsenal, the outstanding leader of the Premier League, in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League, at the José Alvalade Stadium, in Lisbon, which also marked the return of Viktor Gyökeres to the Leonine stronghold.
The substitute used Kai Havertz scored, in the 90+1 minute, the team’s goal. gunnersin what was the Lions’ first home defeat in the current season in the Champions League, after five victories.
The second leg meeting is scheduled for April 15 in London, with the winner of the tie meeting a Spanish team, FC Barcelona or Atlético Madrid in the semi-finals.
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