📊 Form Guide
Alverca LLDWWL
Alverca will be looking for an improved result here following the 1-0 Primeira Liga loss in their previous game against Arouca.
In that game, Alverca had 31% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 1 on target. At the other end, Arouca had 19 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Hyun-ju Lee (59') scored for Arouca.
A recurring characteristic of recent Alverca games is the number of nil scores.
From their previous six clashes before this one, in 5 of them a wager on "Both Teams to Score" would have been a loser.
Ahead of this meeting, Alverca are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.
Porto WWWWWW ✅
Porto will go into the encounter after a 3-1 Primeira Liga win to beat Estrela Amadora in their most recent game.
In that match, Porto had 66% possession and 21 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Porto, the scorers were Aghehowa (17', 73') and Moura (63'). For their opponents, Estrela Amadora had 6 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Abraham Marcus (60') scored for Estrela Amadora.
A succession of reliable showings by the Porto defence has seen their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 2 from their last 6 outings in total. Over that same time, their own forwards have managed to score 12. That pattern might not follow through here, though.
Going into this encounter, Porto have not been beaten in their last 8 league matches away from home. Travelling very well.
🤜🤛 Head to head
Checking on their past head to head results stretching back to 30/10/2000 tells us that these fixtures have not been kind to Alverca. They have not been able to get any wins whatsoever whereas Porto have maintained the edge over them, getting wins in 83 per cent of those games played.
A combined sum of 15 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 2 of them for Alverca and 13 netted by Dragões. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.
📰 Team News: Alverca
Availability isn’t a big problem, with just a single fitness concern for the Alverca manager Custódio Castro to contend with due to a largely intact squad. Chiquinho (unknown injury) misses out.
We think that Alverca may well kick off with a 3-4-3 system for this game, handing starts to Andre Gomes, Kaiky Naves, Julian Martinez, Bastien Meupiyou, Nabili Touaizi, Sabit Abdulai, Amorim, Francisco Chissumba, Lincoln, Marko Milovanovic and Cedric Nuozzi.
ℹ️ Team News: Porto
Porto boss Francesco Farioli has to choose a team with limited availability. Luuk de Jong (Knee injury) and Nehuén Pérez (Achilles tendon rupture) will miss out on this game.
There’s a good chance that Dragões seem likely to elect for a 4-3-3 formation with a starting lineup of Diogo Costa, Martim Fernandes, Dominik Prpic, Jakub Kiwior, Francisco Moura, Victor Froholdt, Alan Varela, Rodrigo Mora, Pepe, Samuel Aghehowa and Borja Sainz.
🔮 Prediction
Looking at these two teams, we feel that Alverca would be disappointed if they were not to get a goal against this Porto team, although one goal may not be as many as the goals that they could concede.
Our tip is for a 1-2 winning score for Porto at full-time.
Victor Martins, 12:01 22/12/2025