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When FC Porto asks Olympiacos Piraeus to dance on the second match day of Group C of the Champions League preliminary round, then two reigning double winners clash, who are old hands in the premier class. The Dragões are represented in the group stage for the 24th time, while the guests from Greece look back on their 20th participation.
In the run-up to the match between Porto and Olympiacos, the odds of the bookmakers turn towards the home side, as the odds comparison of the betting base shows.
Nevertheless, the Dragões lost their opening match in the premier class compared to the Greeks. Olympiakos celebrated a 1-0 win over Olympique Marseille, building on the strong start to the season. Not only did the Greeks remain unbeaten in the 18th qualifying match for a European competition in a row, but Olympiacos have not yet lost any of their eight competitive games in the new season.
FC Porto:
For the eighth time in the club’s history, FC Porto secured the national double in Portugal this summer. The Dragões were thus able to regain national supremacy with a bang from Benfica, which celebrated four championships in a row between 2014 and 2017.
The start of the 2020/21 season could have gone better for the team of successful coach Sérgio Conceição. The Azuis e brancos (in German: the blue-whites) started with a 2: 3 home defeat against Marítimo Funchal in October and then did not get beyond a 2: 2 draw at Sporting.
With ten out of 15 possible points, the Dragões are currently only second in the Primeira Liga and are once again behind their main competitor Benfica. Of course, accounts will only be settled at the end of the season, but this snapshot should clearly consume the 29-time national champion.
All the more annoying that the Champions League kick-off failed. At Manchester City, the Azuis e brancos led 1-0 early on, but ultimately lost the game 3-1. Overall, the Portuguese have lost four of their last five Champions League games.
The Azuis e brancos only won two of their last six European home games. To make matters worse, they are already three points behind the guest from Greece. In their home country Estádio do Dragão, Porto is almost doomed to win if they make it into the knockout round of the premier class for the fourth time in a row.
Olympiacos Piraeus:
Olympiacos Piraeus also secured the national double in Greece at the end of the 2019/20 season. For the 18th time in the club’s history, the Thrylos succeeded in this feat, but they also experienced a short dry spell when Athens and Salonika fixed the championship in 2018 and 2019.
Now the Erythrolefki (in German: the Red-Whites) are in the preliminary round of the Champions League for the 20th time in their club’s history. However, they have not survived this since the 2013/14 season.
Nevertheless, the Thrylos were recently internationally successful. Last season they finished third behind Bayern and Tottenham in the group stage and then threw none other than Arsenal FC out of the Europa League before they only reached the quarter-finals against Wolverhampton.
With the 1-0 home win at the start against Olympique Marseille, the Erythrolefki have been able to build on this. Manchester City is likely to be the clear favorite in Group C. But if the Greeks can also score in Porto, that would be a big step towards the round of 16.
Looking at the statistics, Porto against Olympiacos Piraeus has a tip on the Thrylos’ point win in the Estádio do Dragão, but not under the best of stars. The Greeks are still completely unbeaten in the 2020/21 season and will go into this away game rested due to another game postponement from the weekend.
However, the 45-time Greek champions have lost all of the last seven away games in the group stage of the Champions League. If you add the away games in the Europa League, there are currently four defeats from the last six international games on foreign courts. This also underlines that the focus must primarily be on the defensive.
FC Porto vs Olympiacos Piraeus head to head matches
03.11.99 CL Olympiacos Piraeus FC Porto 1 : 0
21.09.99 CL FC Porto Olympiacos Piraeus 2 : 0
25.11.98 CL Olympiacos Piraeus FC Porto 2 : 1
16.09.98 CL FC Porto Olympiacos Piraeus 2 : 2
27.11.97 CL FC Porto Olympiacos Piraeus 2 : 1