MAN CITY v PORTO STATS AND FACTS
Manchester City have won both of their previous two meetings with Porto, winning 2- 1 away and 4- 0 at home in the last 32 of the Europa League in 2011- 12.
This will be Porto’s 21st away game against English opponents in European competition, while they are still looking for their first such victory ( D3 L17). Indeed, they have failed to score in each of the last seven trips in this run.
Manchester City have won each of their previous three home games against Portuguese opponents, most recently beating Sporting Lisbon 3- 2 in the 2011- 12 Europa League. This will be the first time they’ve hosted Portuguese opponents in the Champions League.
Porto have not won their opening group stage match in any of their last four Champions League campaigns ( D3 L1), having won four such games in a row prior to that.
The last team to beat Manchester City in the group stage of the Champions League was Lyon back in September 2018 ( 1- 2) but Pep Guardiola’s side are unbeaten in 11 games since then, winning eight of them ( D3).
Porto have lost just two of their last 16 Champions League group stage games ( W11 D3), with the Portuguese side remaining unbeaten in their last such campaign in 2018- 19 ( W5 D1).
Porto have lost only two of their 12 group stage games in the Champions League under Sergio Conceicao ( W8 D2), winning each of the last five in a row.
Since his Champions League debut for City in
September 2015, Raheem
Sterling has scored 20 goals in the competition – the joint- most of any English player, along with Tottenham’s Harry Kane.
Porto striker Moussa Marega has been directly involved in eight goals in his last eight games in the Champions League ( six goals and two assists), including a run of scoring in six consecutive appearances between October 2018 and March 2019.
Kevin De Bruyne has made 11 assists for City in the Champions League since the start of the
2016- 17 campaign, only Neymar
( 17) and Kylian Mbappe ( 13) have made more than the Belgian in the competition.