Thierry Henry believes Arsenal could face trouble of their Champions League quarter-final if Sporting CP use similar tactics to Bournemouth.
Arsenal have a 1-0 advantage going into the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie on Wednesday night following their win in Lisbon last week.
Nevertheless, Mikel Arteta’s side head into the sport on the Emirates Stadium off the back of a 2-1 defeat at home to Bournemouth within the Premier League, which has cut their advantage over Manchester City at the highest of the table to 6 points.
Arsenal delivered an unconvincing performance within the loss at home to Bournemouth as they struggled to create clear-cut probabilities in attack and did not beat the press from Andoni Iraola’s players in their very own half.
In the event that they eliminate Sporting on Wednesday night, Arsenal will play Atletico Madrid within the Champions League semi-final and Henry feels a positive result might help the team ‘make a press release’ of their crucial Premier League game against Manchester City this Sunday.
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‘When you’re Sporting, should you see the way in which Man City played Arsenal and the way in which Bournemouth played Arsenal on the weekend, the way in which they put pressure in that 4-2-4 early doors, Arsenal didn’t have a solution on how one can step out from that,’ Henry told CBS Sports.
‘I don’t know what Sporting are going to do, but yes, it is extremely necessary for Arsenal to win the sport and be sure they’ll prepare for the sport we’re all waiting for, what time it’s.
‘Because for a really very long time, I wasn’t even specializing in Bournemouth, even before Bournemouth winning I wasn’t specializing in that, I wanted that game, if I used to be a player, I would like to win at statement, I need to make a press release.
‘I’m not saying it’s going to be easy, but that’s what I’m waiting for.’
Asked if he prefers Arsenal to face Atletico Madrid after they knocked out Barcelona, Henry replied: ‘We’ll see. We want to beat Sporting.
‘They [Atletico] can rejoice, we’re not there yet.’
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