📏 Form Guide

Porto

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Porto fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 1-2 Primeira Liga triumph vs Boavista.

In that match, Porto had 59% possession and 16 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For Porto, the scorers were Rodrigo Mora (20') and Iván Marcano (25'). For their opponents, Boavista had 9 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Miguel Reisinho (34') scored for Boavista.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Porto have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Porto have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 9 goals in the process.

Ahead of this meeting, Porto are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Nacional

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In their previous fixture, Nacional drew 3-3 in the Primeira Liga match with Rio Ave.

In that match, Nacional managed 55% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. For Nacional, goals were scored by André Sousa (46') and Léo Santos (90'). For their opponents, Rio Ave had 13 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Ege Tıknaz (3', 43'), Theofanis Bakoulas (28') and Konstantinos Kostoulas (94' Own goal) scored for Rio Ave.

The stats don’t lie, and Nacional have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals in total. At the back, Nacional have not been doing too well. In any event, we must now wait to see if that trend will be sustained in this next match.

Looking at their past form shows that Nacional:

• have left without a victory over Porto in games played away from home for the previous 11 league games. A very poor set of away results, indeed.
• are undefeated in their last 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head to head meetings dating back to 04/03/2017 tells us that Porto have won 5 of these games and Nacional 1, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

A combined sum of 20 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 17 from Dragões and 3 for Os Alvinegros. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

The previous league contest featuring these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 17 on 12/01/2025 when the final score was Nacional 2-0 Porto.

That day, Nacional had 40% possession and 2 shots at goal with 0 of them on target. The scorers were Dudu Teodora (17') and Zé Vitor (44').

On the other side, Porto got 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Tiago Martins.

📰 Team News: Porto

Vasco Sousa (Broken fibula) and Marko Grujić (Heel injury) will not be able to play for Porto gaffer Martín Anselmi.

In all likelihood, Dragões look set to employ a 3-4-3 system for this game, handing starts to Diogo Costa, Otavio, Ze Pedro, Ivan Marcano, Joao Mario, Alan Varela, Stephen Eustaquio, Francisco Moura, Fabio Vieira, Samuel Aghehowa and Rodrigo Mora.

📋 Team News: Nacional

Out of a mainly available squad, there is just the lone fitness issue for the Nacional boss Tiago Margarido to be concerned with. Miguel Baeza (unknown injury) won’t be in action.

We’re of the thinking that Os Alvinegros appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup by sending out Lucas Franca, Joao Aurelio, Leonardo Santos, Ze Vitor, Arvin Appiah, Chiheb Labidi, Djibril Soumare, Fuki Yamada, Daniel Penha, Paulinho Boia and Joel Tagueu.

💭 Prediction

For this match, we think that Porto have it within them to be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

Conversely, Nacional could well struggle to get shooting opportunities but we can see them converting at least once here.

We’re tipping a decent 3-1 victory for Porto by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Renata Leite, 16:02 17/05/2025