Arsenal arrive in Lisbon having seen their quadruple dreams unravel after back-to-back defeats to Manchester City in the League Cup final and Southampton in the FA Cup quarter-finals. Those missed opportunities, though disappointing, should focus the players’ minds on a Double that is very much attainable.

Arsenal won all eight matches in the league phase and showed little sign of faltering in the last 16, where they delivered a 3-1 aggregate win over Bayer Leverkusen. They tread familiar ground as they make their third consecutive quarter-final appearance in the Champions League.

Eleven Arsenal players returned early from the recent international break and Gabriel Magalhães became the latest in a growing number of players reportedly injured when he hobbled off with a knee injury at Southampton. The Brazilian defender joins Eberechi Eze, Piero Hincapié, Bukayo Saka, Jurrien Timber and Mikel Merino as likely absentees for this fixture. The good news is that Declan Rice, Leandro Trossard and Martin Ødegaard may return, bringing some much-needed creativity.

Sporting have to contend with the lingering memory of a 5-1 defeat when these sides met last season, a result made all the more painful by the departure of Viktor Gyökeres, who scored 97 goals...