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Arsenal 2-0 FC Porto - September 26, 2006 / Champions League 2006/2007

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Champions League 2006/2007 - Group G

Emirates Stadium - London - England

September 26, 2006

Arsenal

England

2 - 0

FC Porto

Portugal

(header) Thierry Henry

38'

Assist by Thierry Henry (right foot) Alexander Hleb

48'

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38' - Goal Thierry Henry38

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46' - Substitution Ricardo Costais substituted by Raul Meireles photo Lisandro López

46' - Substitution Hélder Postigais substituted by Lisandro López

48' - Goal Alexander Hleb48

66' - Substitution Andersonis substituted by Adriano Louzada

74' - Substitution Robin van Persieis substituted by Freddie Ljungberg74

86' - Substitution Alexander Hlebis substituted by Theo Walcott86

93' - Substitution William Gallasis substituted by Alexandre Song93

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

2 - 0

FC Porto

Arsenal FC Porto

Team line-ups

Arsenal

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Henry38

Thierry Henry

France

B.date17/08/1977

Age29 years

H1m88

positionStriker

van Persie74

Robin van Persie

Netherlands

B.date06/08/1983

Age23 years

H1m83

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Hleb4886

Alexander Hleb

Belarus

B.date01/05/1981

Age25 years

H1m85

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

Rosicky

Tomas Rosicky

Czech Republic

B.date04/10/1980

Age25 years

H1m79

positionPlaymaker

Silva

Gilberto Silva

Brazil

B.date07/10/1976

Age29 years

H1m85

positionLeft Defensive Midfielder

Fàbregas

Cesc Fàbregas

Spain

B.date04/05/1987

Age19 years

H1m79

positionRight central midfielder

Hoyte

Justin Hoyte

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date20/11/1984

Age21 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Gallas90+3

William Gallas

France

B.date17/08/1977

Age29 years

H1m81

positionLeft central defender

Touré

Kolo Touré

Ivory Coast

B.date19/03/1981

Age25 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Eboué

Emmanuel Eboué

Ivory Coast

B.date04/06/1983

Age23 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Lehmann

Jens Lehmann

Germany

B.date10/11/1969

Age36 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jens Lehmann		36	149	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	William Gallas	90+3	29	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kolo Touré		25	200	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Emmanuel Eboué		23	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Justin Hoyte		21	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gilberto Silva		29	170	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Cesc Fàbregas		19	108	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alexander Hleb	4886	25	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Robin van Persie	74	23	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tomas Rosicky		25	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Thierry Henry	38	29	349	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

108

FC Porto

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

23Postiga46

Hélder Postiga

Portugal

B.date02/08/1982

Age24 years

H1m82

positionStriker

7Quaresma

Ricardo Quaresma

Portugal

B.date26/09/1983

Age23 years

H1m75

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

8Gonzalez

Lucho Gonzalez

Argentina

B.date19/01/1981

Age25 years

H1m85

positionCentre Midfield

10Anderson66

Anderson

Brazil

B.date13/04/1988

Age18 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

18Assunçao

Paulo Assunçao

Brazil

B.date25/01/1980

Age26 years

H1m75

positionDefensive Midfielder

5Cech

Marek Cech

Slovakia

B.date26/01/1983

Age23 years

H1m83

positionLeft full-back

12Bosingwa

José Bosingwa

Portugal

B.date24/08/1982

Age24 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

14Alves

Bruno Alves

Portugal

B.date27/11/1981

Age24 years

H1m89

positionCentral defender

3Pepe

Pepe

Portugal

B.date26/02/1983

Age23 years

H1m82

positionRight central defender

2Costa46

Ricardo Costa

Portugal

B.date16/05/1981

Age25 years

H1m84

positionRight central defender

1Helton

Helton

Brazil

B.date18/05/1978

Age28 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Helton		28	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Ricardo Costa	46	25	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Pepe		23	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Bruno Alves		24	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Marek Cech		23	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	José Bosingwa		24	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Paulo Assunçao		26	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Anderson	66	18	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Lucho Gonzalez		25	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Ricardo Quaresma		23	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	F	Hélder Postiga	46	24	128	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Alexandre Song	90+3	19	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Freddie Ljungberg	74	29	308	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Theo Walcott	86	17	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
16	M	Raul Meireles	46	23	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
28	F	Adriano Louzada	66	27	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Lisandro López	46	23	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Alexander Hleb

Freddie Ljungberg

OUT

Justin Hoyte

Emmanuel Adebayor

OUT

Robin van Persie

Johan Djourou

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Ricardo Costa

Jorginho

OUT

Anderson

Adriano Louzada

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Arsène Wenger

565

Success rate in this team:

58 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

51 %

Wenger vs FC Porto

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 26, 2006

Wenger vs Ferreira

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 26, 2006

Manager

Age

Match num

Jesualdo Ferreira

Success rate in this team:

71 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Ferreira vs Arsenal

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 26, 2006

Ferreira vs Wenger

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 26, 2006

Referee

Stefano Farina

4 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Arsenal4 matches	General total	FC Porto1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Arsenal1 match	Season total	FC Porto1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on October 23, 2007					Latest figure on September 26, 2006

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Key figures

End of streak for FC Porto after 25 matches with only one goal conceded at most (since 21/01/2006). It was the best streak for the club since 30/12/1984-20/10/1985 (29 matches).

It's the first time Thierry Henry scores 1 goal vs in his professional career

Arsenal keeps its 5 consecutive matches without a draw in Champions League running (since 17/05/2006).

Read the next 17 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DArsenal 1-1 Tottenham22/04/2006

VArsenal 4-2 Wigan07/05/2006

DArsenal 1-1 Aston Villa19/08/2006

VArsenal 2-1 Dinamo Zagreb23/08/2006

DArsenal 1-1 Middlesbrough09/09/2006

VArsenal 3-0 Sheffield United23/09/2006

Overall

VArsenal 2-1 Dinamo Zagreb23/08/2006

LManchester City 1-0 Arsenal26/08/2006

DArsenal 1-1 Middlesbrough09/09/2006

VHamburger SV 1-2 Arsenal13/09/2006

VManchester United 0-1 Arsenal17/09/2006

VArsenal 3-0 Sheffield United23/09/2006

Current form

Away

VAcadémica 0-1 FC Porto26/03/2006

VSporting CP 0-1 FC Porto08/04/2006

VPenafiel 0-1 FC Porto22/04/2006

DBoavista 1-1 FC Porto06/05/2006

VEstrela da Amadora 0-3 FC Porto10/09/2006

VNaval 1 de Maio 0-2 FC Porto17/09/2006

Overall

VFC Porto 3-0 Vitória Setúbal19/08/2006

VFC Porto 2-1 Leiria25/08/2006

VEstrela da Amadora 0-3 FC Porto10/09/2006

DFC Porto 0-0 CSKA Moscow13/09/2006

VNaval 1 de Maio 0-2 FC Porto17/09/2006

VFC Porto 3-0 Beira Mar22/09/2006

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	3
Unbeaten streak	14	4
Drawless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	12	4
Invincibility streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	2	2
Unbeaten streak	8	19
Drawless streak	2	2
Scoring streak	8	2
Invincibility streak	2	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

5	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	19
2	FBDB index ranking (National)	1

Results

3	Number of games (Competition total)	1
1	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
3	Victories (Competition total)	0
1	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

7	Goals scored (Competition total)	0
2	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
2	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
1	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
2.33	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0
2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0.67	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
2-1 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

5	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
3	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Cesc Fàbregas	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	-
Freddie Ljungberg	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	-
Gilberto Silva	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	-
Gilberto Silva	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	-