The Portuguese champion started quite powerfully in the current Champions League tournament, where they won three victories in four rounds and practically closed the issue of reaching the playoffs of the main club tournament in Europe. Following the defeat from today’s opponent at the start of the championship, the dragons gave out three victories in a row: over Olympiacos (2:0) and twice over Marseille (3:0 and 2:0), which brought nine points and the second position in group C. The attack line showed itself well, scoring two goals per game on average. In the Premier League championship Porto won five victories in eight rounds and once shared the tournament points with Sporting CP (2:2), which is already six points ahead. In November the blue-whites defeated Portimonense (3:1) and Santa Clara (1:0). In today’s match, Marcano, Mbaye and Pepe, who has an injured leg, will not be able to enter the field. Gruich is on disqualification. Ndiaye is in isolation with a positive coronavirus test.
Ajax are two points behind their current rival in the group D table and are in second place, so the match will be crucial for the Amsterdam club. Starting with a 0:1 home defeat to Liverpool, Eric Ten Haga’s team achieved a 2:2 draw in Bergamo and twice predictably beat Midtjylland with a score 2:1 and 3:1. As for the domestic championship, here the Amsterdamites are confidently leading, having won nine victories in ten matches and scored 42 goals against their rivals in the Eredivisie. Ajax has a much better situation with injured players. If Alexander-Arnold, Van Dyck, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Shaqiri do not play for Liverpool, Keith and Alcantara are questionable, then only Mohammed Kudus will not be able to enter the field.
