With the aim of adding a victory that will allow him to stand firm in Group D of the UEFA Champions League, on Wednesday the Portuguese champion FC Oporto jumps to the gramado of the Do Dragao Stadium to receive the visit of a motivated Turkish squad like Galatasaray.
FC Porto:
With an equal group consisting of Schalke 04 and Lokomotiv of Moscow, those led by Sérgio Conceicao aspire to say present in the next phase of the UEFA Champions League, so the tie at one goal in his visit to Schalke 04 is very positive for your aspirations.
The Dragons come from beating 1-0 in their last home match against Tondela and in this way they not only added their fifth game without losing in all the competitions, but they added a streak of three consecutive victories in the Primeira Liga de Portugal and this way they are in second place with 15 points, one point less than the leader Sporting Braga, and in this way the Portuguese champion arrives with great confidence to this commitment where he aspires to add his first victory in the maximum European competition of clubs and of step to break that streak of three games without winning in the Champions League, remembering that in the previous edition did not get to pass the group stage.
And for that the dragons base their strength at home, where they have only lost two of their last 13 home games in the Champions League for the group stage, eight of which are victories.
The only absence that will have for this game Sérgio Conceicao is that of striker Vincent Aboubakar who injured his cruciate ligament during the weekend and therefore will be absent.
Galatasaray:
For its part, the Turkish team returns to a UEFA Champions League group stage after two editions of absence and did so with an excellent result as was the 3-0 over the Russian cast of Lokomotiv Moscow, so the runners by Fatih Terim they know that a good result in Portugal would leave them well standing in that fight to finish in one of the first two places of the group and thus qualify for the next round of the European Champions League.
At the moment Galatasaray is having a good season in Turkey’s Super Lig, coming off a 1-0 win over BB Erzurumspor and in this way they are leaders with fifteen points, and a one point difference over their escorts Istanbul Basaksehir and Besiktas, so they arrive very motivated to this commitment and based on it they hope to break that negative streak of not adding victories in their last 11 Champions League games played away from home where nine of them finished in defeats and even received two goals in each of 10 of those parties receiving a total of 28 goals.
The game on Wednesday will be the first time that these teams are facing an official confrontation, remember that in the month of August 2013 played a friendly game that favored Galatasaray with a score of 1-0.
For the Dragons the game against Galatasaray will be Turkey’s third different team to face the Champions League, before they faced Besiktas and Fenerbahce. FC Porto have won four of their six matches against Turkish teams in this competition, losing one of them.
For his part, for Galatasaray play against FC Porto will be his third different team from Portugal in play for the European Champions League, before he faced Sporting de Braga and Benfica. Galatasaray won two, lost one and tied the rest.
PREDICTION: FC Porto to win @ 1.47
