Arsenal didn’t miss their home game against Bayer Leverkusen, rising to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League to meet Sporting Lisbon, which turned out to be incredibly hellish.
The UEFA Champions League 2025-26 football competition, round of 16, second match, on March 17, “The Gunners” Arsenal from England opened the Emirates Stadium to welcome the visit of “Drugstore” Bayer Leverkusen from Germany, the first match both tied 1-1.
In the 15th minute of the first half, Arsenal almost got a chance. Bukayo Saka received the ball in the penalty area and sent it into the middle for Leandro Trossard, who tapped away from the Leverkusen players before pulling the trigger and shooting. Janis Blaswich was still quick to deflect it away.
In the 23rd minute, from a free-kick near the left side of Arsenal’s penalty area, Declan Rice kicked a half-shot, half-pass goal. Janis Blaswich decided to dive and parry it to safety.
In the 27th minute, a Leverkusen player was indecisive in blocking the ball and hitting the feet. Bukayo Saka took the opportunity to dribble and attack until he reached the right side of the penalty area and pulled the trigger to shoot. Janis Blaswich was already waiting and was able to parry it away. Arsenal missed another chance to score.
29 minutes: Bukayo Saka speeds to collect the ball near the back line of the penalty area on the right side. Before paying a break into the middle for Leandro Trossard to pull the trigger and shoot Janis Blaswich, the super save fell over in time to prevent Arsenal from scoring.
In the 32nd minute, Leandro Trossard shot from outside the penalty area and was saved by Janis Blaswich, but the ball was still in front of the goal, causing a scramble. Before the ball came into Ben White’s way, he shot from close range but couldn’t escape, Blaswich saved again. Arsenal still don’t take the lead.
In the 36th minute, Declan Rice gave the ball to Leandro Trossard, who passed it into the feet of Eberechi. Eze received it and turned and pressed with his right hand from about 25 yards away. The ball shot beautifully into the back of the net. Arsenal led at half time 1-0.
In the 63rd minute of the second half, Leverkusen’s defenders failed to clear the ball. Declan Rice cut and dribbled to the skull area in front of the penalty area. before shooting into the corner while the goalkeeper could only look on Arsenal increased to 2-0.
In the 71st minute, Bukayo Saka jumped up to head in the penalty area. Janis Blaswich parried the ball and fell on Kai Havertz. The ball bounced into the goal. But the referee saw that the ball had hit Havertz’s arm. So he didn’t give this goal to Arsenal.
In the 78th minute, Gabriel Martinelli passed the ball to Bukayo Saka, dribbled into the right side of the penalty area and shot from a tight angle with his right. Janis Blaswich had to knock it out to prevent Arsenal from scoring any more goals.
In the 87th minute, Leverkusen almost broke the game. Montrell Culbreath slammed the ball from the right side of the penalty area into the middle for Christian Kofane to shoot down the water and the ball flew straight into the box. David Raya, a super saver, jumped to parry it unbelievably. The game ended with Arsenal winning 2-0 and winning 3-1 on aggregate.
Arsenal advanced to the quarter-finals against Sporting Lisbon from Portugal, who on the same day defeated Bodo/Glimt from Norway 3-0 after 90 minutes (3-3 on aggregate, 5-0 after extra time, Sporting won 5-3 on aggregate).
Other pairs of results
Chelsea (England) 0-3 Paris Saint-Germain (France) ***PSG wins 8-2 on aggregate***
Manchester City (England) 1-2 Real Madrid (Spain) ***Madrid win 5-1 on aggregate***
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