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

There’s a wealth of UEFA Champions League knockout expertise between Porto and Juventus, though historical past suggests the Italian aspect maintain the sting for his or her spherical of 16 tie.

• Juve, who’re within the final 16 for the seventh season in a row, are unbeaten of their 5 earlier matches in opposition to the Portuguese aspect (W4 D1) and are available 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 targets and successful 4 of their six matches as they progressed from the UEFA Champions League group stage to the knockout part for the fourth time in a row.

Earlier conferences

Vítor Baía on Porto’s Juventus take a look at

• Juventus beat Porto 2-0 away and 1-0 at dwelling 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 purpose 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 ultimate in Basel. Beniamino Vignola’s early effort was cancelled out as António Morais’s Porto drew stage via António Sousa however Zbigniew Boniek gained it for Giovanni Trapattoni’s Juventus with a purpose simply earlier than half-time.

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Nedvěd on Juventus’ Porto take a look at

• Porto are unbeaten on this season’s UEFA Champions League since a 3-1 Matchday 1 defeat at Manchester Metropolis, successful the subsequent three at dwelling 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 haven’t conceded a purpose within the competitors in 467 minutes.

• That is Porto’s twenty fourth UEFA Champions League marketing campaign, fewer solely than Actual Madrid and Barcelona (each 25). The Portuguese aspect 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 targets 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 crushed by Bayer Leverkusen within the spherical of 32 (1-2 a, 1-3 h).

• Porto have misplaced 4 of their final ten matches within the UEFA Champions League correct (W5 D1) and have gained solely 4 of their final 9 dwelling European matches (D2 L3).

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

• Porto’s document 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 latest, in opposition to Roma in 2018/19 (1-2 a, 3-1 h aet).

• That dwelling win in opposition to Roma was Porto’s sixth at their very own floor in 11 spherical of 16 matches (D3 L2), after defeats in opposition to Juventus in 2016/17 and Liverpool 12 months later.

• The 2017 defeat by Juventus in Portugal is Porto’s sole reverse of their final 9 dwelling matches in opposition to Italian guests (W4 D4).

Juventus

Watch Del Piero free-kick for Juventus in opposition to Porto

• This season Andrea Pirlo’s aspect 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 aspect on head-to-head document. 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 online in 16 consecutive editions of the UEFA Champions League, matching the feat of Lionel Messi and Karim Benzema.

• Álvaro Morata is the joint main scorer on this season’s UEFA Champions League with six targets – the identical quantity as Paris Saint-Germain ahead Neymar, Erling Braut Haaland of Dortmund and Marcus Rashford of eradicated Manchester United.

• Champions of Italy for a document 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 wherein they’ve progressed to the knockout part.

• 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 targets (0-1 a, 2-1 h).

• The Turin workforce 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 document seven, together with all of their final 5.

• Juve have gained 5 of their final six away European video games (L1); the defeat at Lyon final season is their solely reverse within the final eight such matches (W5 D2).

• 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.

• The Bianconeri’s final journey to Portugal introduced a 1-1 draw at Sporting CP within the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League group stage. That made their general document in opposition to Portuguese sides W8 D3 L4; away it’s W2 D2 L3. All 4 of these defeats got here in opposition to Benfica.

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

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

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

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

• Ronaldo was within the United aspect 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 purpose on the Estádio do Dragão within the 2008/09 quarter-final second leg to present 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 occurring to have spells at Parma (2000/01) and Internazionale (2001–03); his Serie A document 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 workforce had been 1-0 winners in opposition to Porto within the 2003 UEFA Tremendous Cup.

• Conceição and Pirlo confronted one another seven instances throughout their taking part in profession, the Portuguese successful 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 outcome that took Pirlo’s Milan into the ultimate on the expense of Conceição and neighbours Inter, Milan occurring to beat Juventus on penalties within the ultimate.

• Pepe was within the Portugal workforce that beat Dejan Kulusevski’s Sweden 2-0 away in September and 3-0 at dwelling 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 purpose.

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

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

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

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