Arsenal v Sporting LIVE: Score and latest updates as Rice starts for Gunners in Champions League quarter-final

Another dangerous free-kick for Arsenal as Morita clips Madueke, with this one even closer to the edge of the area.

The England winger clips in the cross, but Silva catches it easily enough.

The first dangerous free-kick of the day as Goncalves catches Eze near the area.

It’ll be Rice to take – he passes to Eze but he sees a shot blocked.

And all of a sudden there’s a Sporting counter on! Arsenal committed all their men forward and Geny had the freedom of the pitch as he raced into the Arsenal half, but Martinelli did well to track back and dispossess him.

Half-chances at both ends! Gyokeres has his first pop at goal as he finds himself in space near the edge of the box, but this effort is well wide.

And now an opening for Trincao as Hjulmand intercepts Saliba’s pass and ships it on to the Sporting forward.

He tries to bend one into the far corner but it flies wide of the far post! A warning for Arsenal.

First sight of goal for Luis Suarez as Hjulmand slips him in after a great run, but the striker blasts wide at a tight angle.

He’d strayed offside anyway.

Sporting have declined to push too high at the moment as they look to keep Arsenal at arm’s length.

The visitors have shown they can play out well from the back but unsurprisingly the attacks are stalling against the home defence.

It’s not been a hugely entertaining opening to this one, with plenty of the game being played at a pedestrian pace.

Both sets of wingers are looking to inject some pace into it, but Geny is the latest to fail to do so as Hincapie shepherds him off the ball.

The latest thoughts of Will Castle, who is in place at the Emirates this evening…

“When Real Madrid visited at this stage last year, there was an atmosphere of real belief and optimism, that this Arsenal team can go on to beat anyone and do anything.

“Tonight, there is more than a tinge of anxiety in the air; some are no longer dreaming of the best but fearing the worst.”

A little glimpse of what Sporting can do in midfield as Goncalves releases Trincao well, though it comes to nothing and Saliba eventually clears.

82 per cent possession for the hosts in the opening stages, in fact. It’s been a little pedestrian so far though.

Madueke and Eze try and inject some pace into it but the chance ends as Hincapie’s shot is blocked, before Quaresma does well to stay with Martinelli at the expense of a corner.