Porto urge dominant record as BeÅŸiktaÅŸ come to town
FC Porto have hold a top palm in their prior contests opposite BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK and will wish that settlement continues when a teams flog off their 2017/18 UEFA Champions League campaigns.
• The Portuguese side have won 3 of their 4 matches opposite Beşiktaş, who themselves have won usually dual of their 11 games opposite opponents from Portugal.
Previous meetings
• These clubs initial met in a 2007/08 organisation stage, with Porto winning both fixtures. The Dragons prevailed 1-0 in Istanbul and 2-0 in Porto, and Ricardo Quaresma – now of Beşiktaş – scored in any game.
• Porto also won at Beşiktaş in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, their 3-1 feat in Istanbul earned by Radamel Falcao and two-goal Hulk; Bobô scored an added-time satisfaction for a hosts.
• The Turkish organisation avoided better opposite Porto for a initial time in their many new encounter, a 1-1 draw in that same organisation stage. Falcao was again on aim for Porto, around a 36th-minute penalty, though Nihat Kahveci struck on 62 mins to give BeÅŸiktaÅŸ a point. Both sides had a male sent off, with Porto’s Cristian RodrÃguez (59 minutes) and Ä°brahim Toraman (67) of BeÅŸiktaÅŸ discharged for dual yellow cards.
• The line-ups during a Estádio do Dragão on 4 Nov 2010 were:
Porto: Helton, Pereira, Otamendi, Rolando, Rúben Micael, GuarÃn, Belluschi (Souza 73), Fucile, Cristian RodrÃguez, Hulk (Moutinho 63), Falcao (Walter 79).
Beşiktaş: Hakan Arıkan, Ernst, Hilbert, Tabata (Hološko 46), İbrahim Üzülmez, İbrahim Toraman, Ersan Gülüm, Mehmet Aurélio, Guti, Bobô (Necip Uysal 84), Nihat (Erhan Güven 90+2).
Match background
Porto
• This is Porto’s seventh unbroken organisation theatre debate and their 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).
• Last deteriorate was a third time in a final 6 campaigns that Porto have progressed from their group.
• Porto have won usually dual of their final 7 home matches in European competition. In final autumn’s organisation stage, they picked adult 7 points during home.
• The Portuguese bar have won their other dual home games opposite Turkish opponents, beating Denizlispor 6-1 in a 2002/03 UEFA Cup fourth turn initial leg (8-3 on aggregate) and Fenerbahçe SK 3-1 in a 2008/09 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Porto’s altogether record opposite Turkish teams reads W6 D2 L0.
BeÅŸiktaÅŸ
• Beşiktaş are confronting Portuguese antithesis for a third true deteriorate – and have unsuccessful to record a feat in those 4 fixtures. In 2016/17, they were in a same UEFA Champions League organisation as SL Benfica, with whom they drew 1-1 divided on matchday one and 3-3 during home – entrance from 0-3 down in a latter match.
• That pull during Benfica on 13 Sep 2016 – 12 months to a day before this diversion – was a initial time that Beşiktaş had avoided better on matchday one; they had mislaid their 5 prior opening fixtures.
• In 2015/16, Sporting Clube de Portugal were BeÅŸiktaÅŸ’s rivals in a UEFA Europa League organisation stage, a Istanbul bar being held 1-1 during home before a 3-1 better in Lisbon that finished their seductiveness in a foe and took Sporting through.
• BeÅŸiktaÅŸ’s record divided to Portuguese sides is W2 D2 L2; altogether it reads W2 D4 L5.
• In 2016/17, a Turkish organisation finished third in their organisation and changed into a UEFA Europa League, where they got as distant as a quarter-finals before losing on penalties to Olympique Lyonnais. A 2-1 first-leg better in France halted BeÅŸiktaÅŸ’s five-match dominant divided record (W2 D3) in Europe.
• The Istanbul bar collected 4 points on their travels in final year’s organisation stage, a prominence being a 3-2 delight during Napoli.
• They have won twice in Portugal: 2-0 during SC Braga in a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League turn of 32 and 3-1 opposite Vitória SC in a 2005/06 UEFA Cup organisation stage. Their record in 9 games opposite Portuguese sides is W2 D2 L5 (W2 D1 L2 away).
Coach and actor links
• Vincent Aboubakar spent 2016/17 on loan during Beşiktaş, scoring 12 goals in 26 joining outings and adding 5 some-more in Europe.
• Pepe was a Porto actor from 2004 to 2007, winning dual Liga championships; he purebred 6 goals in 64 Liga games. He was also during CS MarÃtimo from 2001 to 2004.
• Quaresma was during Porto from 2004 to 2008, and again between 2013 and 2015, scoring 34 joining goals in 155 appearances. He landed joining titles in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Quaresma’s Porto team-mates enclosed Diego Reyes, Héctor Herrera and Ricardo Pereira (all 2013–15), Hernâni, Iván Marcao, Óliver Torres and Aboubakar (all 2014/15).
• Quaresma was also during Sporting CP from 2001 to 2003, personification in their 2001/02 championship-winning team.
• Porto manager Sérgio Conceição was in a Portugal side that kick Turkey 2-0 in a UEFA EURO 2000 quarter-finals. His 55th and penultimate top came in a 4-0 accessible win opposite Bolivia on 10 Jun 2003 – a compare in that half-time surrogate Quaresma done his general debut.
• Conceição helped SS Lazio to a 2-0 divided win and 1-1 home draw against Beşiktaş in a 2003/04 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Have played together:
Iker Casillas Pepe (Real Madrid CF, 2007–15)
Maxi Pereira Talisca (Benfica, 2014–16)
Alex Telles Gary Medel (FC Internazionale Milano, 2015/16)
• International team-mates:
Iker Casillas Ãlvaro Negredo (Spain)
Ricardo Pereira, André André, Danilo Pereira Pepe and Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal)
• Alex Telles was in a Galatasaray AŞ organisation that won a Turkish joining and crater in 2014/15, carrying also carried a crater a prior year. He done 39 joining outings for a bar from 2013 to 2015, scoring twice.
• Talisca claimed dual uninterrupted doubles with Benfica in 2014/15 and 2015/16; he managed 12 goals in 53 joining matches.