In this 9th week match, on Sat Oct 8th, Porto will travel to Portimão to battle Portimonense in a meeting of these two evenly matched Primeira Liga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 22 degrees, a perfect day for football. In their last match, 5th placed Portimonense, recorded a 0-1 loss against Vizela. Anderson struck first for Vizela in the 14th minute on a feed from Tomás Silva, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Portimonense couldn’t manage to score, and Vizela took the shutout win. With 17 points in their last 10 matches Portimonense should be reasonably happy with their performance, while in their last match, Porto recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Bayer Leverkusen. Zaidu Sanusi struck first for Porto in the 69th minute on a feed from Mehdi Taremi, then Wenderson Galeno added another in the 87th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Bayer Leverkusen couldn’t manage to score, and Porto took the shutout win. With 19 points in their last 10 matches Porto should be reasonably happy with their performance.
This match will be the first time these two teams face eachother this season. Last season Porto won the head to head battle with 2 wins.
Both Mehdi Taremi and Evanilson have been the hottest scorers for Porto in the last 5 each having scored 2 goals each. Portimonense is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Welinton Junior and Pedrão each only have 1 goal in their last five.