Marseille vs FC Porto UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Marseille have never beaten FC Porto in five previous meetings (D1 L4), with all of these coming in the UEFA Champions League group stages between 2003-04 and this season.
FC Porto won the reverse fixture on MD3 against Marseille 3-0, scoring with three of their four shots on target, while not allowing their opponents a single attempt on target themselves.
In all competitions, FC Porto have won their last five games against French opponents by an aggregate score of 14-2, and keeping four clean sheets in that run. Their last away game against a French side was a 3-0 victory against Monaco in the 2017-18 UEFA Champions League group stages.
Marseille have lost each of their last 12 Champions League games – in the history of the European Cup/Champions League, only Jeunesse Esch have ever lost more consecutively in the competition (16 between 1973 and 1987).
Marseille are looking to avoid becoming the eighth team to lose each of their first four group games while failing to score each time in a single UEFA Champions League campaign, with Anderlecht in 2017-18 the last to do so.
FC Porto have only lost one of their last 12 UEFA Champions League group stage games (W9 D2), with that defeat coming at Manchester City on MD1 this season.
Marseille have had fewer shots on target than any other side in the UEFA Champions League this season (4), as well as being the only side yet to score in the competition this term.
Porto’s Moussa Marega has been involved in 10 goals in his last 11 UEFA Champions League appearances (7 goals, 3 assists), with the Portuguese side winning all seven games in which he’s found the net in the competition.
Luís Diaz has scored in both of his UEFA Champions League appearances so far – the only player to score in each of their first three in the competition for FC Porto was Zé Carlos back in the inaugural campaign in 1992-93.
FC Porto’s Sérgio Oliveira has scored in each of his last two UEFA Champions League appearances, having netted just once in his first 10 games in the competition.
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