LONDON -- Arsenal's round-of-16 curse in the Champions League is finally broken. It required a penalty shootout at the end of a gruelling 120 minutes -- in which FC Porto tested the Gunners' patience in almost every conceivable way -- but they've reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 2010.
As manager, Mikel Arteta inherited a glass ceiling of seven consecutive exits at this stage between 2011 and 2017 -- five of which he was on the books as a player -- but at the first time of asking on their return to Europe's leading club competition, it has been shattered.