Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya was the hero as the Gunners beat Porto in a shootout to advance to the last eight of the UEFA Champions League for the first time since 2010. Barcelona won Tuesday's other match over Napoli, snapping a quarterfinal drought of its own.
Arsenal is back in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals for the first time in 14 years. After trading home wins in the two-match, total-goals-wins series with Porto, the Gunners prevailed in a penalty shootout in London in which goalkeeper David Raya made two saves — including the clinching spot versus Brazilian forward Galeno: In Spain, Barcelona broke its own drought by returning to the last eight for the first time since 2020, when Lionel Messi was still pulling the strings in Catalonia.
Much of that tension evaporated when Fermín López and João Cancelo put the hosts ahead 2-0 on the night and 3-1 on aggregate with goals two minutes apart early in the first half. That changed on the half-hour mark, when Napoli center back Amir Rrahmani clawed one back for the visitors, who were suddenly just a goal away from pulling even. The next 50-plus minutes were played on a knife's edge. But a defensive slog this wasn't.
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