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Rice: ‘We’ll need everyone in second leg’

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Declan Rice is expecting Emirates Stadium to be ‘rocking’ when we welcome Porto to London for the second leg next month.

We were moments away from earning a draw from the first leg in Portugal on Wednesday, when Brazilian Galeno scored a screamer to give the hosts a narrow advantage at half-time in the tie.

After the final whistle, a disappointed Rice said he’s confident that with our supporters behind the team, we can turn round the tie in the second leg. “We’ll need absolutely everyone,” he said. “The Emirates is going to be rocking. We feel that when it's like that at our stadium it’s obviously one of the best places in the world to play football so we'll be ready for it, I’m already looking forward to it and fans get right behind us.