David Raya has called Tuesday night’s win over Porto one of the biggest moments in his career, after his penalty-shootout heroics.

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LONDON, ENGLAND: David Raya of Arsenal makes the match-winning save from the fourth penalty from Galeno of FC Porto in the penalty shoot out during the UEFA Champions League 2023/24 round of 16 second leg match between Arsenal FC and FC Porto at Emirates Stadium on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)

Arsenal’s David Raya made two big penalty shootout saves and almost got to a third as the Gunners knocked FC Porto out of the Champions League to progress to the quarter-finals.

Raya insisted afterwards that he “should have saved three”, but two was ultimately enough to send his team through.

“I think it’s one of the biggest moments in my career, my whole career,” Raya admitted to Arsenal.com. “I put it up there and hopefully there’s many more to come here.”

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(From L) Arsenal’s David Raya, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka, Ben White, and Declan Rice celebrate after winning the penalty shoot-out of the UEFA Champions League last 16 second leg football match between Arsenal and Porto FC at the Arsenal Stadium in north London, on March 12, 2024. (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Raya posted on Twitter that it was a “magical night at the Emirates”, sharing photos of one of his saves and his Player of the Match award.

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Raya is certainly making himself popular with the Arsenal fans at the moment, and he gave some credit to the supporters for the shootout win.

“The fans have been fantastic; they’ve been fantastic for a long time,” Raya said.

“Especially today, we needed them. They made some noise and got us through spells in which we needed them. They were there for us, and we were there for them.

“We had the fans behind our goal as well and that put a lot of pressure on them and that worked for us. I think that helped us to win the penalty shootout.”

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LONDON, ENGLAND: Mikel Arteta, Manager of Arsenal, and David Raya of Arsenal embrace at full-time after victory in the penalty shoot out following the UEFA Champions League 2023/24 round of 16 second leg match between Arsenal FC and FC Porto at Emirates Stadium on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

The good news for those fans is that Raya is set to stick around at Arsenal. Fabrizio Romano reports that Arsenal have already decided to trigger the player’s £27m buy option, making that decision months ago.

The Spaniard is set to be an Arsenal player for the long term, and the team are lucky to have him.

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