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Vitória Guimarães and Porto meet at Estádio Dom Afonso Henriques, in a match for the 11th round of the Primeira Liga. The record of direct confrontations in this stadium is favorable to the visiting team, which in the last 5 matches won 3, tied 1 and lost 1. Indeed, the last time these two teams met at this stadium was on 02-16-2020 , in a match for the Primeira Liga that ended with the victory of Porto by (1‑2). Bruno Duarte (49 ‘) scored the goals of the match, for Vitória Guimarães, and M. Marega (60’) and Douglas (10 ‘Autogolo), for Porto. The home / away condition deserves particular attention, since despite this being a match between 5th and 3rd in the league table, it is actually a clash between the 14th ranked in home games and the 6th away.
Guimarães:
After 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, the home team is currently in 5th position, with 19 points won. In their last match, they beat Santa Clara away by (0‑4), after having won (1‑0) at home in the previous match, in a match against Portimonense. This is a team that tends to achieve more positive results away from home than at home, as they won 13 points away and 6 at home, with 9 goals scored and 1 suffered as away, against 2 goals scored and 6 suffered at home. In their last 5 home games for the championship, Vitória Guimarães won 2 and lost 3, thus winning 6 points out of 15 possible. In their home matches there is a tendency for few goals, since in 13 of the last 19 they played there were less than 3 goals.
The Vitória de Guimarães team has been making a positive campaign in global terms until this stage of the Liga NOS, where their main objective is to qualify for European competitions. For now, coach João Henriques is in fifth place, with 19 record points, four more than Paços de Ferreira and two less than his rival Braga. After being eliminated in the Portuguese Cup, by Santa Clara (0-1), and in the League Cup, by Benfica (1-1, after penalties), the Minho team returned to the victories in style, scoring, in the last match of the League, in the visit to Santa Clara, in the Azores, by 0-4 (goals by André, 6 ‘, Quaresma, 27’, and Estupiñan, 30 ‘and 54’).
Porto :
The visiting team is currently in the 3rd position, with 22 points won, after 7 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. In the penultimate match, they won at home against Tondela by (4‑3). In the last match, they won at home against Nacional by (2‑0). This is a team that tends to be more competitive at home, as they won 7 points away and 15 at home, with 10 goals scored and 5 suffered as away, against 15 goals scored and 8 suffered at home. The team comes to this match after a home win against Benfica by (2‑0). For the championship, Porto won 7 points out of 12 possible, after 2 victories, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last 4 games they played as a visitor.
In this competition, they won the last 4 matches they played. His attack has scored regularly as he has scored at least one goal in each of the last 10 matches for this competition. In 10 matches in this competition, they conceded the first goal 5 times, but got the comeback in 2.
The FC Porto team has so far not carried out the campaign they wanted in the championship, where their main objective is to revalidate the conquest of the national champion title won in 19/20. At the beginning of the eleventh day, the team led by Sérgio Conceição appears in 3rd place in the league table, with 22 points of record, one more than Braga and two less than Benfica. On the last day of the league, the “dragons” received and beat Nacional 2-0 (goals from Sérgio Oliveira, 21 ‘and Marega, 39’), in a quiet match. Last Wednesday, the Blue and White team won the first trophy of the season, beating Benfica Benfica 2-0 in the Super Cup final, in a match in which FC Porto was clearly superior.
Vitoria Guimaraes vs FC Porto head to head matches
16.02.20 PL Vitoria Guimaraes FC Porto 1 : 2
22.01.20 CUP Vitoria Guimaraes FC Porto 1 : 2
01.09.19 PL FC Porto Vitoria Guimaraes 3 : 0
03.02.19 PL Vitoria Guimaraes FC Porto 0 : 0
25.08.18 PL FC Porto Vitoria Guimaraes 2 : 3