Arsenal vs. AC Milan: Live Score, Analysis, Recap

Here it is: Arsenal's last chance in 2012.

Arsenal host AC Milan in the second leg of their Champions League Last 16 tie Tuesday night, and the Gunners need four goals to rescue their last chance at silverware this season.

As you surely remember, Arsenal melted down three weeks ago, losing 4-0 at the San Siro only a few days before crashing out of the FA Cup as well. With Arsenal 17 points off the pace in the Premier League, this is their last shot at silverware in 2012.

And it's a long, long shot at that.

On the bright side, Arsenal have been playing great football. Weekend before last they obliterated Spurs 5-2 at the Emirates, proving they can score enough goals to advance. On Saturday, they came from behind to beat Liverpool 2-1 despite being outplayed for much of the match.

Trouble is, AC Milan's form has been outstanding as well. The Rossoneri embarrassed Palermo 4-0 on Saturday behind three more goals from Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic—who may be the only striker in Europe who's hotter than Arsenal's Robin van Persie right now.

So Arsenal have their work set out before them: Score four goals against one of the hottest sides in Europe and don't concede any. It's gonna be interesting to see how Arsene Wenger and company go about it.

The match is scheduled to kick off at 2:45 p.m. EST, with American TV coverage on Fox Soccer. We'll start live commentary around 2:30. See you then.

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Lineups 

Arsenal: Wojciech Szczesny; Kieran Gibbs, Thomas Vermaelen, Laurent Koscielny, Bacary Sagna; Gervinho, Alex Song, Tomas Rosicky, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain; Theo Walcott, Robin van Persie

AC Milan: Christian Abbiati; Djamel Mesbah, Thiago Silva, Philippe Mexes, Ignazio Abate; Urby Emmanuelson, Mark van Bommel, Antonio Nocerino; Robinho; Stephan El Shaarawy, Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Goals

Arsenal: Laurent Koscielny (7'); Tomas Rosicky (26'); Robin van Persie (43', pen.)