Published: 19:38, 6 April 2026 | Updated: 19:38, 6 April 2026

If Arsenal want to win the Champions League, they will first have to silence a man generating a volcanic level of noise in the Iberian Peninsula. 

Sporting Lisbon may look the easiest possible quarter-final opponents on paper but they have in their ranks a man who can't stop scoring: a certain Luis Suarez.

No, not the biter. This one is 28, Colombian, and has 33 goals to his name this season across all competitions. That's three more than Erling Haaland. 

Most of those are in a weaker league, granted, but he's already proven he can spear European heavyweights. In January he struck twice to sink Paris Saint-Germain. 'Football is s***,' declared PSG boss Luis Enrique after Suarez's 90th-minute winner. 

There is a real chance of Suarez knocking Arsenal out. It's not the most probable eventuality, but don't write his Portuguese team off. This is, after all, a side which has beaten PSG, Manchester City, Tottenham, and even Arsenal themselves in recent seasons - Sporting beat them on penalties in the...