📏 Form Guide
Arouca WLDDLW ⚖
Arouca, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 1-2 Primeira Liga victory versus Nacional.
In that game, Arouca managed 42% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 on target. For Arouca, the goals were scored by Boris Popović (74') and Espen van Ee (89'). At the other end, Nacional had 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Jesús Ramírez (66') was the scorer for Nacional.
Matches involving Arouca have usually been lively ones lately with plenty of scoring being a real hallmark. Over their past half dozen games, the sum total of 23 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 9 of those being chalked up by Arouca. We will see whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.
Going into this game, the form guide shows that Arouca:
- have not registered a win against Porto in their last 2 league matches.
- are without a win at home for the past 2 league matches.
Porto WWWWWW 🎯
Porto will come into the clash following a 0-1 Europa League win versus Red Bull Salzburg in their most recent outing.
In that game, Porto had 57% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Porto was William (93'). For their opponents, Red Bull Salzburg had 14 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.
A succession of very capable displays by the Porto defence has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 1 from their last 6 clashes overall. In that period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 12.
Going into this encounter, Porto are undefeated in their previous 4 away league matches.
👥 Head to head
Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 28/12/2022 tells us that Arouca have won 1 of these & Porto 4, with the tally of drawn games being 1.
A sum of 20 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 5 of them for Arouca and 15 coming from Dragões. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.
The previous league encounter featuring these sides was Primeira Liga match day 24 on 01/03/2025 when it finished Arouca 0-2 Porto.
On that day, Arouca had 49% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.
On the other side, Porto got 9 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Aghehowa (12') and Vieira (77') scored.
The referee was João Gonçalves.
ℹ️ Team News: Arouca
It’s our opinion that Arouca should line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation this time, handing starts to Joao Valido, Tiago Esgaio, Matias Rocha, Boris Popovic, Amadou Dante, Taichi Fukui, David Simao, Alfonso Trezza, Hyun-Ju Lee, Nais Djouahra and Dylan Nandin.
📰 Team News: Porto
Out of a mainly full-strength group of players, there is only the lone fitness issue for the Porto boss Francesco Farioli to contend with. Nehuén Pérez (unknown injury) misses out for this game.
We are inclined to think that Dragões seem most likely to play in a 4-3-3 system using Diogo Costa, Pablo Rosario, Jan Bednarek, Jakub Kiwior, Francisco Moura, Victor Froholdt, Alan Varela, Gabriel Veiga, Pepe, Samuel Aghehowa and Borja Sainz.
💭 Prediction
In our opinion, Porto can be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.
At the other end, Arouca will be up against it to find success in front of goal, although we do think that it’s probable they’ll be being dangerous at times.
We therefore think that it’s going to be a fairly comfortable 1-3 win for Porto at the end of the 90 minutes.