Vitoria FC will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today's opponents. The home side are currently 19 points behind Porto.
Porto could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Primeira Liga game only four sleeps ago.
Vitória FC form and stats
3-5-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Primeira Liga numbers at home for Vitória FC so far this season.
Vitória FC are confident in defense, having played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
A strong away win for Vitória FC against Tondela the last match, as Hélder Guedes, Zequinha and Carlinhos were on target. In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Belenenses.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Vitória FC here at Estádio do Bonfim in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 9 games). Vitória FC have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 4 goals.
Porto form and stats
Porto have an excellent away record in the Primeira Liga so far with 6-2-1 from 9 games. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Gil Vicente game have they lost an away game, meaning Porto has taken points from eight away matches in a row.
Porto won their last game, 2-1 versus Gil Vicente played at home. A 0-1 defeat away at Sporting Braga before that.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Porto manager S. Marceneiro Conceição as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Academico Viseu.
Porto are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 16 times in 9 away games so far. As opposed to that, Porto have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Porto - Vitória FC 4-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Vitória FC 0 wins, 2 draws and Porto 8 victories. As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Mendes Andrade 7 goals |  F. das Chagas Soares dos Santos 6 goals |  M. Marega 5 goals |
Vitória FC missing players
Porto missing players
| Vitória FC | Porto | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 7 | 5 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 16 | 37 |
| 16 | 4 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 72% | 56% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 39% | 22% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 78% | 83% |
| 28% | 11% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 44% | 56% |
| 17% | 11% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 22% | 17% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 22% | 11% |
| 22% | 22% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 67% | 44% |
| 56% | 78% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 33% | 56% |
| 50% | 44% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.3 | 5 | 2 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7 | 6.2 | 6.8 |
| 7.1 | 5.8 | 6 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 3.2 | 2.6 |
| 3.2 | 2.9 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3.2 | 2.6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 179 | 101 | 21 | Total Shots | T S | 41 | 135 | 277 |
| 55 | 24 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 44 | 100 |
| 24% | 21% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 36% | 37% |
- Porto has the most scored goals in the first half (20)
- Porto have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Porto have scored in all their matches so far.
- Porto have scored more than double the goals of Vitória FC.
- Porto have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Porto 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 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 44 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 38 | 51 |
| 2 | Porto | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 25 | 44 |
| 3 | Sporting CP | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 32 |
| 4 | Famalicão | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 31 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 31 |
| 5 | Sporting Braga | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 30 |
| 6 | Rio Ave | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 28 |
| 7 | Vitória FC | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 25 |
| 8 | Vitória SC | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 26 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 25 |
| 9 | Gil Vicente | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -1 | 22 |
| 10 | Boavista | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -3 | 22 |
| 11 | Tondela | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 12 | -7 | 20 |
| 12 | Marítimo | 18 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -8 | 20 |
| 13 | Santa Clara | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -8 | 20 |
| 14 | Moreirense | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -5 | 18 |
| 15 | Belenenses | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 32 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -18 | 18 |
| 16 | Paços de Ferreira | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | -13 | 16 |
| 17 | Portimonense | 18 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -13 | 14 |
| 18 | Desportivo Aves | 18 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 19 | 34 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 24 | -15 | 9 |