Marseille vs FC Porto PREVIEW & PREDICTION 25/11/2020

On Wednesday, starting with 20:00, the Ol match will be played. Marseille – FC Porto, in the 4th round of the Champions League groups.

The two teams are part of Group C, along with Manchester City and Olympiakos. After the first 3 games, the calculations are easy to do in this group. The “citizens” got all the points at stake and do not seem to have any problems in terms of qualifying from the first place in the next phase of the competition. Next, we find FC Porto – 6 points, Olympiakos – 3 points and Marseille – 0 points. In this context, the French have only theoretical chances to leave the groups, their central objective being to change in the qualification in the Europa League. Therefore, a duel against FC Porto at home must be treated with the utmost seriousness.

However, the premises are not at all “pink” for the band on “Velodrome”! The students of Lustian Andre Villas-Boas come after 3 defeats in the last 5 games of all competitions, the morale of the French being at extremely low levels! Moreover, the coach’s “seat” is in danger, with the local press talking about a potential dismissal of Villas-Boas if he does not lead the team in the European spring of the Europa League. Thus, the duel with Porto will acquire a colossal importance. We take this fact into account, but we cannot ignore the existing value difference, which at this moment benefits the Portuguese. Thus, for safety, we will choose to rely on the number of goals.

Marseille (4-1-2-1-2): Steve Mandanda; Hiroki Sakai, Alvaro Gonzalez, Duje Caleta-Car, Jordan Amavi; Boubacar Kamara; Valentin Rongier, Morgan Sanson; Dmitri Payet; Florian Thauvin, Dario Benedetto;

Porto (4-4-2): Agustin Marchesin; Wilson Manafa, Chencel Mbemba, Malang Sarr, Zaidu Sanusi; Jesus Corona, Sergio Oliviera, Mateus Uribe, Otavio; Moussa Marega, Luis Diaz.

Marseille, without victory in 6 of the last 7 home matches;
FC Porto, 8 goals scored in the previous 3 games played;
In the round, Sergio Conceicao’s students won 3-0.


PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1,75

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