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FC Porto vs Belenenses Prediction & Betting tips
Saturday FC Porto may stay in the lead if it beats Belenenses at home. The pressure is then Benfica that Sunday only comes into action.
FC Porto :
In preparation for the match against Belenenses coach let Nuno Espirito Santo hinted that he wants to tinker with as little as possible to his starting line-up. “It is an advantage that this season we have already played twice against them” informed the coach.
“By this we know that it will be a difficult game, but if we play with our hearts and following our strongholds, I trust the three points,” he recorded cliché. That’s a difficult game to be common ground for Os Dragões (Dragons) Belenenses this season can not defeat yet. Both in the league and in the cup ended in a goalless draw.
The number of draws FC Porto would sometimes ugly can break this season. The entire competition was lost only once (in August at Sporting Lisbon) but overall it was quite right already played seven times. More point loss Porto can not afford to play with a gap of one point at Benfica with 7 matches.
Porto may have a fully fit selection. Only central defender Iván Marcano is suspended following his yellow card against Benfica. He will be replaced by Frenchman Boly.
Probable lineup FC Porto
Casillas, Pereira, Boly, Felipe, Layún, André Danilo Pereira, Torres, Brahimi Silva, Tiquinho
Belenenses :
Who loves goals, the matches of Belenenses can leave this season better links. In 27 games with the club were only 51 goals. The team Quim Machado scored only 21, but conceded there are only 30.
Belenenses plays this season for nothing, but city rivals Benfica could prove a huge service by FC Porto to steal points. That fact did twice this season. On November 26 last, the 0-0 in the league and three days later was this trick was repeated in the cup. An interesting detail: the final victory at Belenenses FC Porto we must go back to 2002.
Another salient detail is that Belenenses since the winter break, the decision made about the Brazilian striker Maurides, whose brother Maicon 2009 and 2016, 184 games for FC Porto played club and three times champion. Some weeks he declared to be even more motivated to score against Benfica to Porto as a helping hand in the championship battle. It would therefore be extra striking precisely when he scored against Porto.
Probable lineup Belenenses
Cristiano, Diogo Duarte Nunes, Hanin, Ortuno, Gomes, Ahman-Persson, Rosa, Camara, Maurides
FC Porto vs Belenenses head to head
29.11.16 CUP FC Porto Belenenses 0 : 0
26.11.16 PL Belenenses FC Porto 0 : 0
28.02.16 PL Belenenses FC Porto 1 : 2
04.10.15 PL FC Porto Belenenses 4 : 0
17.05.15 PL Belenenses FC Porto 1 : 1