Juventus-Porto | Juventus vs Porto: UEFA Champions League background, form guide, previous meetings | UEFA Champions League

Juventus welcome Porto to Turin needing to overturn a first-leg deficit within the spherical of 16 for the second yr in a row.

• Targets early in every half from Mehdi Taremi and Moussa Marega put Porto answerable for the primary leg on the Estádio do Dragão, till a Federico Chiesa strike eight minutes from time provided a route again into the tie for Juve, who bowed out to Lyon in final season’s competitors after failing to undo the injury of an away first-leg defeat again on residence soil.

• Juve, who’re within the final 16 for the seventh season in a row, had by no means beforehand misplaced to the Portuguese facet (W4 D1) and got here into this tie having completed first in Group G because of a outstanding Matchday 6 triumph at Barcelona.

• Porto completed second behind Manchester Metropolis in Group C, conceding solely three objectives and profitable 4 of their six matches as they progressed from the UEFA Champions League group stage to the knockout section for the fourth time in a row.

Highlights: Porto 2-1 Juventus (2 minutes)

Earlier conferences
• Juventus beat Porto 2-0 away and 1-0 at residence within the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League spherical of 16. Marko Pjaca and Dani Alves had been on track within the first leg on the Estádio do Dragão, earlier than Paulo Dybala’s Forty second-minute penalty settled the second recreation on the Juventus Stadium.

• Juve took 4 factors off Porto within the 2001/02 UEFA Champions League first group stage, following up a 0-0 attract Portugal with a 3-1 victory in Turin. Clayton struck an early objective for Octávio Machado’s guests earlier than Alessandro Del Piero and Paolo Montero turned the sport for Marcello Lippi’s Juve. David Trezeguet sealed the victory late on.

• The Bianconeri additionally beat Porto 2-1 within the 1984 European Cup Winners’ Cup last in Basel. Beniamino Vignola’s early effort was cancelled out as António Morais’s Porto drew degree by means of António Sousa however Zbigniew Boniek gained it for Giovanni Trapattoni’s Juventus with a objective simply earlier than half-time.

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Watch nice Juventus objectives

Juventus
• This season Andrea Pirlo’s facet picked up 15 factors to complete high of Group G, a closing 3-0 win at Barcelona – 2-0 winners in Turin on Matchday 2 – enabling them to complete above the Spanish facet on head-to-head file. Juve additionally recorded two victories in opposition to each Dynamo Kyiv (2-0 a, 3-0 h) and Ferencváros (4-1 a, 2-1 h).

• Cristiano Ronaldo was on track in opposition to Ferencváros on Matchday 4 and has now discovered the web in 16 consecutive editions of the UEFA Champions League, matching the feat of Lionel Messi and Karim Benzema.

• Champions of Italy for a file ninth season in a row in 2019/20, and thirty sixth time in all, that is Juve’s twenty first UEFA Champions League marketing campaign; they’ve now reached the final 16 in 18 of these seasons, 2020/21 marking the seventh successive marketing campaign during which they’ve progressed to the knockout section.

• The Bianconeri, below Maurizio Sarri, completed first of their part forward of Atlético de Madrid in final season’s competitors having once more gained 5 of their six fixtures (D1) however bowed out within the spherical of 16, eradicated by Lyon on away objectives (0-1 a, 2-1 h).

• The Turin crew have completed first of their UEFA Champions League part on 14 events, together with in every of the final three seasons.

• Winners in 1985 and 1996, Juventus have performed in 9 European Cup finals – shedding a file seven, together with all of their final 5.

• Juventus have misplaced solely 5 of their 45 European matches on the Juventus Stadium (W28 D12), though 4 of these defeats have come of their final 13.

• Juventus are within the UEFA Champions League spherical of 16 for the twelfth time (W7 L4); final season’s defeat by Lyon ended a run of three successive mixture victories.

• Juventus’s residence file in opposition to Portuguese sides is W5 D1 L1, most just lately recording a 2-1 win in opposition to Sporting CP within the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League group stage. The Bianconeri’s sole residence loss to a Portuguese Liga membership got here of their first encounter, Benfica triumphing 1-0 in Turin in a 1967/68 European Champion Golf equipment’ Cup semi-final second leg (3-0 mixture), although equally damaging was a goalless draw in opposition to Benfica within the second leg of their 2013/14 UEFA Europa League semi-final that denied them a spot within the last, staged of their residence stadium.

• Earlier than the primary leg of this tie, all 4 of Juve’s earlier defeats by Portuguese opponents had come in opposition to Benfica.

• Juve’s file in two-legged knockout ties in opposition to Portuguese golf equipment is W3 L2.

• Juve have gained 15 of the 34 UEFA ties during which they misplaced the away first leg, though they had been overwhelmed by Lyon final season. On the six events the Bianconeri have misplaced the away recreation 2-1, they’ve gained 4 ties on mixture, though they misplaced the final two, in opposition to Liverpool within the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals (0-0 h) and Benfica in that 2013/14 UEFA Europa League semi-final.

• Juventus’s file in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W3 L3:
3-0 v Ajax, 1977/78 European Champion Golf equipment’ Cup quarter-final
1-4 v Widzew Łódź, 1980/81 UEFA Cup second spherical
4-2 v Argentinos Juniors, 1985 European/South American
Cup last
1-3 v Actual Madrid, 1986/87 European Champion Golf equipment’ Cup second spherical
4-2 v Ajax, 1995/96 UEFA Champions League last
2-3 v AC Milan, 2002/03 UEFA Champions League last

5 nice Porto Champions League objectives

Porto
• Porto are unbeaten on this season’s UEFA Champions League since a 3-1 Matchday 1 defeat at Manchester Metropolis, profitable the subsequent three – at residence in opposition to Olympiacos (2-0) and Marseille (3-0) plus a 2-0 victory in France – earlier than a goalless draw in opposition to Metropolis in Portugal ensured they’d end in second place in Group C. They made it 5 successive UEFA Champions League clear sheets with a 2-0 win at Olympiacos on Matchday 6.

• The Dragons had not conceded a objective within the competitors in 549 minutes earlier than Chiesa’s first-leg strike for Juve.

• That is Porto’s twenty fourth UEFA Champions League marketing campaign, fewer solely than Actual Madrid and Barcelona (each 25). The Portuguese facet have now certified for the final 16 on every of their final 4 appearances within the group stage.

• Porto’s 2019/20 UEFA Champions League marketing campaign lasted a single tie, Krasnodar beating them on away objectives within the third qualifying spherical (1-0 a, 2-3 h). They went on to complete first in a UEFA Europa League part together with Rangers, Younger Boys and Feyenoord, however had been overwhelmed by Bayer Leverkusen within the spherical of 32 (1-2 a, 1-3 h).

• Porto have misplaced 4 of their final 11 matches within the UEFA Champions League correct (W6 D1).

• The two-0 win at Marseille on Matchday 4 ended the Dragons’ run of three right away defeats within the UEFA Champions League correct; that they had been unbeaten within the earlier 5 (W2 D3) earlier than that sequence of losses and have now been victorious of their final two away video games.

• Sérgio Conceição’s facet gained the membership’s eighth home double in 2019/20, claiming Porto’s twenty ninth league title and a seventeenth Portuguese Cup.

• Porto’s file within the spherical of 16 is W4 L7; they’ve gained solely two of their final six ties though they had been victorious in the newest, in opposition to Roma in 2018/19 (1-2 a, 3-1 h aet).

• That loss at Roma two seasons in the past means Porto have but to win away within the UEFA Champions League spherical of 16, the place their file on the highway is D4 L7.

• A 3-0 win at Roma within the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League play-off second leg is Porto’s solely victory of their final eight visits to Italy (D2 L5), and was their first there since a 3-2 success at AC Milan within the 1996/97 group stage.

• Porto have gained 34 of the 42 UEFA competitors ties during which they recorded a house first-leg victory, though they misplaced the final, in opposition to Bayern München within the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals (3-1 h, 1-6 a). When profitable the house first leg 2-1 their mixture file is W2 L2, with the final two such ties coming at this stage of the UEFA Champions League in opposition to English golf equipment: a victory over Manchester United in Porto’s triumphant 2003/04 marketing campaign (1-1 a) previous a defeat by Arsenal in 2009/10 (0-5 a).

• Porto’s file in three UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W1 L2:
3-5 v Sampdoria, 1994/95 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-final
8-7 v As soon as Caldas, 2004 European/South American Cup
1-4 v Schalke, 2007/08 UEFA Champions League spherical of 16

Danilo’s Juventus disappointment

Hyperlinks and trivia
• Juventus full-backs Alex Sandro (2011–15) and Danilo (2012–15) each performed for Porto. Alex Sandro scored three objectives in 135 appearances in all competitions, profitable two league titles; Danilo additionally lifted two Portuguese Liga titles with the Dragons, for whom his 138 matches introduced 12 objectives.

• Ronaldo has scored 102 objectives in 170 worldwide appearances for Portugal. In 2002/03, his solely season as knowledgeable in his homeland, his Sporting CP facet misplaced 1-0 at residence and 2-0 away in opposition to Porto.

• Ronaldo was on the books at Sporting between 1997 and 2003, when he left to affix Manchester United. He scored 5 objectives in 31 appearances in all competitions for the Lisbon membership’s senior facet.

• Ronaldo was within the United facet that misplaced 3-2 on mixture to Porto at this stage of the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League (1-2 a, 1-1 h) earlier than scoring the one objective on the Estádio do Dragão within the 2008/09 quarter-final second leg to provide United a 3-2 mixture victory.

• Has additionally performed in Portugal:
Merih Demiral (Alcanenense 2016/17, Sporting CP B 2017/18)

• Have performed in Italy:
Felipe Anderson (Lazio 2013–18)
Iván Marcano (Roma 2018/19)

• Anderson misplaced all 11 video games in opposition to Juventus as a Lazio participant, together with defeats within the Coppa Italia finals of 2014/15 (1-2 aet) and 2016/17 (0-2).

• Jesús Corona scored previous Wojciech Szczęsny in Porto’s 3-0 victory at Roma within the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League play-off second leg.

• Porto coach Sérgio Conceição marked his Lazio debut with an-added time winner in opposition to Juventus within the 1998 Italian Tremendous Cup. He performed for the Rome membership till 2000, when he gained the league and cup double, earlier than happening to have spells at Parma (2000/01) and Internazionale (2001–03); his Serie A file in opposition to Juve was W2 D3 L2.

• Conceição was a Lazio team-mate of present Juventus vice-president Pavel Nedvěd.

• Pirlo’s AC Milan crew had been 1-0 winners in opposition to Porto within the 2003 UEFA Tremendous Cup.

• Conceição and Pirlo confronted one another seven occasions throughout their enjoying profession, the Portuguese profitable three video games and the Italian one. One of many three attracts was 1-1 within the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg, a consequence that took Pirlo’s Milan into the ultimate on the expense of Conceição and neighbours Inter, Milan happening to beat Juventus on penalties within the last.

• Pepe was within the Portugal crew that beat Dejan Kulusevski’s Sweden 2-0 away in September and 3-0 at residence in October within the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League.

• Rodrigo Bentancur’s Uruguay had been 2-1 winners in opposition to Portugal within the 2018 FIFA World Cup spherical of 16 regardless of Pepe’s objective.

• Have performed collectively:
Cristiano Ronaldo & Pepe (Actual Madrid 2009–17)
Álvaro Morata & Pepe (Actual Madrid 2010–14, 2016/17)
Danilo & Pepe (Actual Madrid 2015–17)
Alex Sandro, Danilo & Felipe Anderson (Santos 2010–11)

• Ronaldo and Pepe had been each within the Actual Madrid facet overwhelmed 3-2 on mixture by Juventus within the 2014/15 semi-finals, Morata scoring in each legs for the Bianconeri.

• Worldwide team-mates:
Cristiano Ronaldo & Pepe, Sérgio Oliveira (Portugal)
Juan Cuadrado & Luis Díaz, Mateus Uribe (Colombia)
Paulo Dybala & Agustín Marchesín (Argentina)
Alex Sandro, Danilo, Arthur & Felipe Anderson (Brazil)

• Danilo and Sérgio Oliveira had been on opposing sides within the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup last, the previous’s Brazil facet operating out 3-2 winners in opposition to Portugal in Bogota, Colombia.