Porto underneath vigour for Leipzig return

RB Leipzig will always remember FC Porto carrying available their initial European win during a responsibility of a Portuguese side on matchday three; those 3 points have pushed a German debutants adult into second place in Group G forward of a lapse outing to Portugal.

• Leipzig kick Porto 3-2 final time out and now have 4 points, one some-more than their opponents nonetheless 5 behind Group G leaders Beşiktaş JK.

Match background

Porto
• Having lost 3-1 against BeÅŸiktaş on matchday one, Porto have won usually dual of their final 8 home matches in European competition. In final autumn’s organisation stage, they picked adult 7 points during home.

• In 2015/16, Porto mislaid 2-0 away and 1-0 during home to Borussia Dortmund in a UEFA Europa League turn of 32. That done it 3 unbroken defeats opposite Bundesliga opponents.

• The Portuguese bar were 7 games dominant (W5 D2) during home to German visitors before losing to Dortmund.

• Porto’s 31 matches opposite German teams have finished W12 D7 L12 (W8 D3 L4 during home). However, their many important outcome opposite German opponents came on neutral territory, in Vienna, where they kick Bayern 2-1 in a 1987 European Champion Clubs’ Cup final. 

• 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 – their second feat in their final 6 games in a competition.

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

Leipzig
• This is usually Leipzig’s fourth European game. They drew 1-1 during home to 2016/17 semi-finalists AS Monaco FC on matchday one, Emil Forsberg scoring their entrance goal, and were beaten 2-0 during BeÅŸiktaÅŸ in their initial divided fixture.

• Leipzig competent for a initial incursion into European foe by finishing second in a 2016/17 Bundesliga – in what, remarkably, was their initial deteriorate in a German tip flight.

• Leipzig are a 12th bar to paint Germany in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage.

• On matchday one, a German side became a initial organisation from any nation to make their European entrance in a organisation stage.

Coach and actor links
• Timo Werner scored twice in Germany’s 3-1 win opposite Cameroon in a 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup organisation stage; Vincent Aboubakar got a Cameroon goal.

• Werner also scored, and supposing an assist, in Germany’s 4-1 semi-final win opposite a Mexico side including Miguel Layún and Héctor Herrera during this summer’s Confederations Cup.

• Bruma was in Sporting Clube de Portugal’s comparison side in 2012/13, featuring in a 0-0 joining pull opposite Porto.

• Have played together:
Bruma Alex Telles (Galatasaray AS, 2014/15)
Bruma Diego Reyes (Real Sociedad de Fútbol, 2015/16)
Bruma Ricardo, José Sá, Sérgio Oliveira (Portugal Under-21s)

Article source: https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2018/matches/round=2000881/match=2021648/prematch/background/index.html?rss=2496815+Porto+under+pressure+for+Leipzig+return