A key match in Primeira Liga as both teams are battling for the top positions. With the home team in 3rd position and the visitors placed 2nd, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Sporting CP form and stats
Sporting CP are steadily winning Primeira Liga games and points here at Jose Alvalade. 4 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 6 games. It’s been three wins in a row for Sporting CP here at Jose Alvalade, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
The Sporting CP goalkeeper Luis Manuel Arantes Maximiano is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the Primeira Liga.
Sporting CP are returning here after visiting Portimonense in a League Cup game and winning with a 4-2 scoreline. In the preceding match a 4-0 victory visiting Santa Clara.
The game against Portimonense had lots of late drama as Sporting CP came back from being down 0-2 and finally secured all three points through L. Phellype's goal in the 90th minute. Things did not look good last match, when Y. Bolasie got a red card in the 45th minute. They were already behind at this time, but a tremendous finish from Sporting CP resulted in a win!
Sporting CP have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Jose Alvalade with 11 goals in 6 league matches. 7 goals have been conceded.
Porto form and stats
Porto have an excellent away record in the Primeira Liga so far with 4-2-1 from 7 games. In general it has been a productive period now for Porto as they haven't lost any of their last 13 games.
Two travels in a row for Porto, whose manager Sérgio Conceição could celebrate last time after the League Cup win against Chaves. Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Santa Clara in the Taça De Portugal.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Porto, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?
Porto have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far).
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 1 win for Sporting CP, 5 draws and 4 wins for Porto. Over 2,5 goals: 4 times; under 2,5 goals: 6 games.Top Goalscorers
  Zé Luís 7 goals |   Luiz Phellype 6 goals |  Bruno Fernandes 6 goals |
Sporting CP missing players
Porto missing players
| Sporting CP | Porto | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 24 | 11 | 6 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 28 |
| 15 | 7 | 6 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 71% | 79% |
| 57% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 43% |
| 36% | 33% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 14% |
| 7% | 17% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 7% |
| 64% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 57% | 29% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 43% | 71% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5.5 | 4.3 | 3.3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 6.6 | 6.9 |
| 3.8 | 4.3 | 4 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 2.5 | 3 | 2.3 |
| 2.9 | 2.7 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 2.9 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 209 | 97 | 38 | Total Shots | T S | 24 | 105 | 221 |
| 62 | 32 | 14 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 31 | 80 |
| 39% | 34% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | 35% |
- Porto has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2)
- Porto has the most scored goals in the first half (16)
- Porto have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Porto have scored in all their matches so far.
- Porto have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Porto haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sporting CP have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting CP have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Sporting CP have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Sporting CP haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Benfica | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 32 | 39 |
| 2 | Porto | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 35 |
| 3 | Sporting CP | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 26 |
| 4 | Famalicao | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 24 |
| 5 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 21 |
| 6 | Rio Ave | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 19 |
| 7 | Vitoria Setubal | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | Tondela | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | -3 | 18 |
| 9 | Sporting Braga | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 18 |
| 10 | Boavista | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 18 |
| 11 | Moreirense | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -1 | 17 |
| 12 | Gil Vicente | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -2 | 17 |
| 13 | Belenenses | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -10 | 15 |
| 14 | Maritimo | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -8 | 15 |
| 15 | Santa Clara | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -8 | 14 |
| 16 | Portimonense | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -9 | 12 |
| 17 | Paços de Ferreira | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | -12 | 11 |
| 18 | Desportivo Aves | 14 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 15 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 22 | -15 | 6 |