Final memories for Monaco and Porto

FC Porto can demeanour behind on their usually prior assembly with AS Monaco FC with substantial affinity as a teams come face to face again on matchday two.

• The Portuguese side were crowned European champions for a second time in 2004 with a 3-0 final feat over Monaco in Gelsenkirchen.

• This time turn Porto need to redeem from their 3-1 home detriment to Beşiktaş JK on matchday one; Monaco drew 1-1 during debutants RB Leipzig in their initial Group G game.

Previous meetings
• Their solitary preceding confront could not have been some-more high profile, as José Mourinho’s Porto took on a Monaco organisation coached by Didier Deschamps in a 2004 final. Goals from Carlos Alberto (39), Deco (71) and Dmitri Alenichev (75) gave a Portuguese outfit a prize for a second time, following their 1987 triumph.

• The line-ups during a Arena AufSchalke on 26 May 2004 were:
Monaco: Roma, Zikos, Givet (Squillaci 72), Rodriguez, Evra, Ibarra, Bernardi, Giuly (Pršo 23), Cissé (Nonda 64), Rothen, Morientes.
Porto: Vítor Baía, Ferreira, Costa, Carvalho, Nuno Valente, Costinha, Maniche, Pedro Mendes, Deco (Pedro Emanuel 85), Derlei (McCarthy 78), Carlos Alberto (Alenichev 60).

• The compare was Mourinho’s final in assign of Porto; he over for Chelsea FC on 2 Jun 2004.

• Current manager Sérgio Conceição assimilated Porto from SS Lazio mid by 2003/04, though had already represented a Italian bar in that season’s UEFA Champions League and was therefore incompetent for European action.

Match background

Monaco
• Monaco are dominant during home to Portuguese visitors, winning dual games and sketch a other. Their many new knowledge was a goalless home pull with SL Benfica in a 2014/15 organisation theatre (0-1 away).

• The French side scored 3 goals in their dual other matches opposite Portuguese antithesis during a Stade Louis II: 3-2 opposite Sporting Clube de Portugal in a 1997/98 organisation theatre (0-3 away) and 3-0 opposite CF Os Belenenses in a 1989/90 European Cup Winners’ Cup initial turn (4-1 aggregate).

• Monaco’s altogether record opposite Portuguese teams is W2 D2 L3.

• Monaco are in their eighth organisation theatre campaign. Finalists in 2004, they got to a semis in 1994, 1998 and 2017.

• The realm outfit had another noted European deteriorate in 2016/17, knocking out Manchester City FC and Borussia Dortmund en track to a final four. There they succumbed 4-1 on sum to Juventus (0-2 home, 1-2 away).

• That Juve better finished a seven-match dominant home run (W6 D1) for Leonardo Jardim’s organisation in European competition. They picked adult 7 points during home in a 2016/17 organisation stage.

• Monaco have mislaid dual of their final 14 European home games (W9 D3).

Porto
• Porto’s record opposite Ligue 1 clubs reads W12 D6 L5; in France it is W3 D4 L4.

• The Portuguese side’s many new revisit to France brought a 1-0 win during LOSC Lille in a 2014/15 play-off initial leg, Héctor Herrera removing a idea that stopped a four-match winless strain divided to French teams (D2 L2). Porto also prevailed 2-0 during home, Yacine Brahimi opening a scoring.

• Porto have mislaid usually one of their final 7 games opposite French opposition, home and divided (W4 D2).

• This is Porto’s seventh unbroken organisation theatre debate and their record-equalling 22nd in total. In 2016/17, they reached a turn of 16, bowing out opposite contingent runners-up Juventus (0-2 home, 0-1 away).

• Porto have mislaid their final 3 UEFA Champions League fixtures, home and away, and have won usually one of a final five.

• Porto took 4 points divided from home in final year’s organisation stage.

• Last deteriorate was a third time in a final 6 campaigns that Porto have progressed from their group.

Coach and actor links
• Jardim’s Monaco kick an FC Nantes organisation coached by Conceição 4-0 in Ligue 1 on 5 Mar 2017, Fabinho scoring a final idea from a chastisement spot.

• The coaches also crossed paths in Portugal. In Apr 2012, in his initial deteriorate as a conduct coach, Conceição’s SC Olhanense kick Jardim’s SC Braga 2-1 in a Liga; in 2013/14, by afterwards during A. Académica de Coimbra, Conceição available a win and a pull opposite Jardim’s Sporting Clube de Portugal.

• Jardim’s domestic record opposite Porto was W1 D1 L6. He had spells in assign of AD Camacha (2003–08), GD Chaves (2008–09), SC Beira-Mar (2009–11), Braga (2011/12) and Sporting (2013/14).

• Radamel Falcao scored 41 goals in 51 Portuguese Liga appearances for Porto between 2009 and 2011. He won a Portuguese Cup in 2010 and a joining and crater double a subsequent season, when he also spearheaded a club’s UEFA Europa League delight with 17 goals – including a leader in a final opposite Braga.

• João Moutinho was during Porto from 2010 to 2013, creation 83 outings and scoring 4 goals. A UEFA Europa League leader alongside Falcao, he claimed a joining pretension in any of his 3 seasons with a Dragons, completing a domestic double in 2010/11.

• Moutinho was during Sporting between 2003 and 2010, with a record W7 D3 L8 opposite Porto.

• Iker Casillas was in a Real Madrid CF side suspended on divided goals by Monaco in a 2003/04 quarter-finals (4-2 home, 1-3 away).

• Sérgio Oliveira was coached by Jardim during Beira-Mar in 2010/11.

• Have played together:
Fabinho Iker Casillas (Real Madrid, 2012/13)
Rony Lopes José Sá (SL Benfica girl teams)
Stevan Jovetic Alex Telles (FC Internazionale Milano, 2015/16)

• International team-mates:
João Moutinho André André, Danilo (Portugal)
Rony Lopes Ricardo Pereira, Sérgio Oliveira (Portugal Under-21)
Adama Traoré Moussa Marega (Mali)
Rachid Ghezzal Yacine Brahimi (Algeria)

• Have also played in Portugal:
Diego Benaglio (CD Nacional 2005–08)
Adama Traoré (Rio Ave FC, 2017)

• Has played in France:
Vincent Aboubakar (Valenciennes FC 2010–13, FC Lorient 2013–14)

• Ricardo Pereira netted twice in Portugal’s 5-4 win over a Netherlands in a 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship play-off second leg. Terence Kongolo was on aim for a Dutch.

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