Porto out to make swell opposite Monaco
FC Porto are shutting in on a place in a knockout rounds as they move down a screen on their Group G debate opposite an AS Monaco FC side who are creation an early exit from Europe.
• Porto famously kick Monaco in a 2004 UEFA Champions League final and warranted another 3-0 feat opposite a Ligue 1 outfit on matchday dual this season. That has helped a Dragons to 7 points in a section, turn with RB Leipzig; they are by if they win, or as prolonged as they are during slightest turn on points with Leipzig due to their higher head-to-head on idea difference.
• Monaco, who have dual points, will finish fourth.
Previous meetings
• Their solitary confront before this deteriorate 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 bar 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: VÃtor BaÃa, 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 as a actor 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
Porto
• Porto’s record during home to Ligue 1 sides is W8 D2 L1; they have won a final three, both during home and overall. The solitary better was a 2-0 detriment to FC Nantes in a 1971/72 UEFA Cup initial turn (1-3 aggregate).
• The Portuguese side suffered a 3-1 detriment opposite Beşiktaş on matchday one, though recovered to beat Leipzig by a same scoreline in their second home game.
• Porto have won usually 3 of their final 9 home matches in European competition. In final autumn’s organisation stage, they picked adult 7 points during home.
• 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 had mislaid their prior 3 UEFA Champions League fixtures, home and away, before winning during Monaco on matchday two; the indirect Leipzig success on matchday 4 was their second feat in their final 7 games in a competition.
• Last deteriorate was a third time in a final 6 campaigns that Porto had progressed from their group.
Monaco
• Before this season, Monaco had competent from a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre on their final 4 participations.
• The French organisation are but a win in their 3 visits to Portugal (D1 L2), many recently losing 1-0 during SL Benfica in a 2014/15 organisation stage.
• Monaco have collected all their points on their travels in this season’s foe interjection to a span of 1-1 draws, at debutants Leipzig on matchday one and away to organisation winners BeÅŸiktaÅŸ in a fourth turn of fixtures.
• Leonardo Jardim’s men – who claimed a French pretension in May – mislaid 4 of their 8 divided matches in final season’s competition, winning 3 and sketch a other.
• Monaco are in their eighth organisation theatre campaign. Finalists in 2004, they got to a semis in 1994, 1998 and 2017. This will be a initial time they have come fourth in a organisation given 2000/01, when they were bottom in their first-group-stage section.
Coach and actor links
• Jardim’s Monaco kick a 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 tenure as a conduct coach, Conceição’s SC Olhanense edged Jardim’s SC Braga 2-1 in a Liga; in 2013/14, by afterwards during A. Académica de Coimbra, Conceição posted 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 carried 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:
Iker Casillas Fabinho (Real Madrid, 2012/13)
José Sá Marcos Lopes (SL Benfica girl teams)
Alex Telles Stevan Jovetić (FC Internazionale Milano, 2015/16)
• International team-mates:
André André, Danilo João Moutinho (Portugal)
Ricardo Pereira, Sérgio Oliveira Marcos Lopes (Portugal Under-21)
Yacine Brahimi Rachid Ghezzal (Algeria)
• Has also played in Portugal:
Diego Benaglio (CD Nacional 2005–08)
• 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.