{"id":648807,"date":"2024-11-26T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=648807"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:46:51","slug":"arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-sporting-lisbon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/26\/arsenal-predicted-lineup-vs-sporting-lisbon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Sporting CP for Tricky Champions League Trip to Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for the Gunners\u2019 UEFA Champions League fixture against Sporting CP on Tuesday, November 26.<\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Sporting CP in Champions League<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How Arsenal Have Lined up Recently<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Martin \u00d8degaard has now started back-to-back games, and what a difference he makes, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if he&#8217;s able to do so again, following over two months on the sidelines due to an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/24\/bruno-fernandes-role-under-ruben-amorim\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Assessing Bruno Fernandes\u2019 Role and Adaptability Under Ruben Amorim<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta rotated his attack against Nottingham Forest on Saturday, with Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Jesus coming into the team.<\/p>\n<p>Declan Rice, who&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2024\/11\/07\/revealed-declan-rice-to-try-play-with-broken-toe\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> nursing a broken toe, Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz were all unused substitutes at the weekend. Will the trio all return?<\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arsenal Recent Form and Tactics<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Following a much-needed victory at the weekend, can Arsenal start to build some momentum?<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, goals from Bukayo Saka, Thomas Partey and then 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri saw the Gunners swat aside Nottingham Forest in North London.<\/p>\n<p>Nwaneri became the youngest Englishman to score for Arsenal<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@harveydownes\/post\/DCupDCQBzXT?xmt=AQGz0M6QKyFbKWzNt6MkM_v7nWjp3WTsZWl35gpPvTz2_g\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> since 1982. <\/a>The\u00a0Gunners had a player in the teens, 20s and 30s net in a Premier League game for the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomEde1\/status\/1860369144941576288\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in five years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/22\/loan-star-ben-doak-catalyst-for-scotland-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Middlesbrough Loan Star Ben Doak the Catalyst for Scotland\u2019s Success<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More importantly, this ended their four-match winless run in the league. This needs to be the start of a winning streak if they&#8217;re to keep pace with run-away leaders Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Arteta&#8217;s team also require Champions League points, having been beaten by Inter Milan at the San Siro in their most-recent European fixture three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>This means Arsenal have won only one of their last eight away games in this competition, a record they&#8217;ll be desperate to somewhat rectify at Est\u00e1dio Jos\u00e9 Alvalade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/23\/andy-walker-exclusive-qa-part-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Andy Walker Exclusive Q&amp;A Part Two: Retirement, Looking Back and the Media<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arsenal Injuries to Consider<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Benjamin White is sidelined long-term, while fellow full-backs Takehiro Tomiyasu and Kieran Tierney are also injured. Thus, it&#8217;ll be Jurri\u00ebn Timber at right-back for the foreseeable future. Will Riccardo Calafiori keep his place on the other side, with Oleksandr Zinchenko, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Jakub Kiwior alternatives?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/24\/three-talking-points-oxford-united-middlesbrough\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Three Talking Points as Oxford United Lose Against Middlesbrough<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, will \u00d8degaard be ready to go again, having played 82 minutes at the weekend?<\/p>\n<p>Given Rice&#8217;s aforementioned broken toe, he too may not be risked.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 11 that started against Sporting in Lisbon as recently as March 2022, only William Saliba, Martinelli and Saka are likely to do so here too.<\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Sporting CP<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>GK: David Raya.<\/p>\n<p>RB: Jurri\u00ebn Timber.<\/p>\n<p>CB: William Saliba<\/p>\n<p>CB: Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es.<\/p>\n<p>LB: Riccardo Calafiori.<\/p>\n<p>CM: Thomas Partey.<\/p>\n<p>CM: Mikel Merino.<\/p>\n<p>CAM: Martin \u00d8degaard<\/p>\n<p>RW: Bukayo Saka.<\/p>\n<p>LW: Gabriel Martinelli.<\/p>\n<p>ST: Kai Havertz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is our Arsenal predicted lineup for the Gunners\u2019 UEFA Champions League fixture against Sporting CP on Tuesday, November 26. Arsenal Predicted Lineup Vs Sporting CP in Champions League How Arsenal Have Lined up Recently Martin \u00d8degaard has now started back-to-back games, and what a difference he makes, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5192,"featured_media":648852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1831,8,378],"tags":[32739,32738],"class_list":["post-648807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starting-line-up","category-arsenal","category-champions-league","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-fixtures"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664014,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648807\/revisions\/664014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}