{"id":1020,"date":"2026-03-17T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:38:06","slug":"who-will-arsenal-face-in-the-ucl-quarter-finals-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Who will Arsenal face in the UCL quarter-finals? | News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ebere Eze and Declan Rice ensured we reached the Champions League quarter-finals for a third year in a row with a 3-1 aggregate victory over Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n

After drawing at the BayArena, two sensational efforts in N5 saw us progress to the last eight.<\/p>\n

who will we face in the quarter-finals?<\/h2>\n
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Our result in north London means that we will play Portuguese outfit Sporting Lisbon in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

After finishing sixth in the league phase of the competition, Sporting were drawn against Bodo\/Glimt in the round of 16 after the Norwegian side knocked out last season’s finalists, Inter Milan.<\/p>\n

Bodo were in dreamland after the first leg last week as they prevailed 3-0 in the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n

But the Portuguese side roared back in the second leg, scoring three times to force the match into extra time. Two more goals followed as Sporting completed a miraculous comeback to set up a clash with us in the quarter-finals and a reunion with former striker Viktor Gyokeres.<\/p>\n

when will the quarter-final matches take place?<\/h2>\n
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Following our Carabao Cup final against Manchester City, there will be a fortnight break for international fixtures before the league football resumes in April.<\/p>\n

The first leg will take place in the Portuguese capital on April 7 or 8, with the return clash taking place in north London the following week on either April 14 or 15.<\/p>\n

Details will follow in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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