There are 8 fixtures to look forward to in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday night including the meeting between Manchester City and Porto.
This is a Group C match and the other two teams in the group playing on the same night are Olympiakos and Marseille.
Manchester City come into the game having defeated Arsenal 1-0 at home in the Premier League on Saturday night. It was an important victory for Pep Guardiola and his players who were held to a 1-1 draw at Leeds United prior to the international break. The most pleasing aspect of the victory for Manchester City was the fact they captain clean sheet. It was their first clean sheet in the Premier League this season.
They will be hoping to deliver another strong defensive performance in this match as trends show both teams have scored in each of their last 7 matches in the Champions League. Manchester City have scored at least one goal in each of their last 9 Champions League games and are unbeaten in 8 of their 9 most recent matches in the competition.
Home form shows Manchester City are undefeated in their last 8 Champions League games at the Etihad Stadium. You must go back to September 2018 to find the last time they lost a home game in the Champions League and it came against Lyon. Both teams have scored in 4 of their last 5 home Champions League matches.
Porto were held to a 2-2 draw at Sporting Lisbon on the weekend in the Primeira Liga. That result leaves them 5 points behind current League leaders Benfica and with some work to do early in the season. Prior to the international break, Porto suffered a disappointing 3-2 defeat at home against Marítimo despite having previously defeated Boavista 5-0 on the road.
Porto’s recent away form shows they have lost only one of their last 7 games in all competitions. They have won 4 of those matches.
Porto failed to qualify for the group stages of the Champions League last season as they were eliminated in the third qualifying round by Russian club Krasnodar.
Nonetheless, they have a decent away record in the competition and trends show Porto are undefeated in 6 of their last 8 Champions League games on the road. Both teams have scored in 5 of their last 6 away Champions League matches.
Team news and Manchester City are without a few key players as Aymeric Laporte, Gabriel Jesus, and Kevin de Bruyne are injured. Alexander Zinchenko and Benjamin Mendy are doubts.
Porto travel without two players as Ivan Marcano and Mouhamed Mbaye are both injured. Every other player should be available for Sérgio Conceição.
This should be an entertaining game to watch and we expect to see Porto come and give a good account of themselves. Both teams should find the back of the net in this game and we could be in for a shock result if Porto play to the best of their ability.