Match events
Minute by minute- 39' Yellow card: Marcos Acuña Sporting CP
- 45' Substitution: Bruno GasparOff: Stefan Ristovski Sporting CP
- Half-time 0–0
- 46' Yellow card: Rob Holding Arsenal
- 51' Yellow card: Henrikh Mkhitaryan Arsenal
- 58' Substitution: Lucas TorreiraOff: Mohamed Elneny Arsenal
- 71' Yellow card: Sebastián Coates Sporting CP
- 71' Substitution: Jovane CabralOff: Nemanja Gudelj Sporting CP
- 77'0–1 Goal: Danny Welbeck Arsenal
- 81' Substitution: Alexandre LacazetteOff: Danny Welbeck Arsenal
- 86' Substitution: Alex IwobiOff: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Arsenal
- 87' Substitution: Abdoulay DiabyOff: Nani Sporting CP
- 90+3' Yellow card: Jovane Cabral Sporting CP
- 90+5' Yellow card: Rodrigo Battaglia Sporting CP
Line-ups
Confirmed
Sporting CP4-3-34-3-3Arsenal
- 40 Ribeiro
- 9 Acuña
- 6 Pinto
- 4 Coates
- 1345' Ristovski
- 8671' Gudelj
- 25 Petrovic
- 16 Battaglia
- 8 Fernandes
- 10 Montero
- 1787' Nani
- 19 Leno
- 34 Xhaka
- 16 Holding
- 5 Papastathopoulos
- 12 Lichtsteiner
- 458' Elneny
- 29 Guendouzi
- 8 Ramsey
- 2381' Welbeck
- 1486' Aubameyang
- 7 Mkhitaryan
Sporting CP bench
- 77Jovane Cabral71'
- 23Abdoulay Diaby87'
- 76Bruno Gaspar45'
Arsenal bench
- 11Lucas Torreira58'
- 9Alexandre Lacazette81'
- 17Alex Iwobi86'