In a weekend match in week 21, on Sunday Feb 6th, Arouca hosts Porto in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Primeira Liga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 8 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. 15th placed Arouca is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Famalicão. Neither Famalicão nor Arouca could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 4 and 9 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Arouca looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while in their last match, 1st placed Porto, recorded a 2-1 win against Marítimo. Evanilson scored the first goal for Porto in the 18th minute, then Pepê added another in the 48th minute. Porto is on a hot streak lately, having won 10 of their last 10.
On Aug 28th, Porto hosted Arouca at the Estádio Do Dragão in their last match together. Porto was victorious by a score of 3 to 0 in front of almost 13000 spectators. Mateus Uribe struck first for Porto in the 24th minute, then Mehdi Taremi added another in the 34th minute In the end, Arouca was frustrated by Porto’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Porto ended the match with the shutout victory.
Porto has been fortunate! In the last five matches, both Mehdi Taremi and Evanilson are on scoring streaks. They have each scored 4 goals for Porto and look to continue their dominance.. Arouca is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Oday Dabagh and Kouassi Eboue each only have 1 goal in their last 5.