FC Porto vs Marseille UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
FC Porto have never lost against Marseille in the UEFA Champions League (P4 W3 D1) with all meetings coming in the group stage in 2003/04 and 2007/08.
Marseille are winless in all seven away European matches in Portugal (D1 L6), losing each of their last three trips there, all in the Europa League against Braga (twice) and Vitória Guimarães.
No French team has ever beaten FC Porto away from home in the UEFA Champions League (P7 W0 D2 L5), with Monaco the last French team to play there in 2017/18, losing 5-2.
In the history of the European Cup/Champions League, Portuguese teams are unbeaten in every home match against French opponents (W14 D3), winning the last eight matches in a row.
A defeat in this match for Marseille would see them become only the third team in the history of the European Cup/Champions League to lose 12 consecutive matches, after Anderlecht (12 between 2003 and 2005) and Jeunesse Esch (16 between 1973 and 1987).
FC Porto have won five of their last six home games in the UEFA Champions League, with their only defeat in this run coming in April 2019 against Liverpool; the team who went on to win the competition that season.
Marseille have lost their last two UEFA Champions League games without scoring, while they’ve only once previously failed to score in three consecutive games in the competition (in 2011-12 under Didier Deschamps).
Since his debut in the competition for Porto in September 2017, Moussa Marega has been directly involved in the most UEFA Champions League goals for the Portuguese side (11 – six goals and five assists).
Marseille’s Nemanja Radonjic is looking for his first goal in major European competition (excl. qualifiers) since September 2017, while playing for Crvena Zvezda. He has made 11 appearances across the UEFA Champions League and Europa League since then, with six of those coming for current club Marseille.
Porto defender Pepe made his 100th UEFA Champions League appearance in their previous game against Olympiakos – the Portuguese is the oldest outfield player to appear in the competition this season (37y 251d on the day of this game).
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