UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estádio do Dragão - Porto Tuesday 27 October 2020 21.00CET (20.00 local time) FC Porto Group C - Matchday 2 Olympiacos FC Last updated 29/10/2020 15:38CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 6 1 FC Porto - Olympiacos FC Tuesday 27 October 2020 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Dragão, Porto Match background Olympiacos travel to Porto in buoyant mood having snatched a last-gasp victory on Matchday 1, although the home side also have some positives to take from their opening encounter despite it ending in defeat. • Porto took an unexpected lead at Manchester City in their opening fixture, Luis Díaz's early goal giving them an advantage that was quickly wiped out before the Portuguese side eventually succumbed to a 3-1 loss. Olympiacos also struck first on Matchday 1, although Ahmed Hassan's goal against Marseille in Piraeus did not arrive until a minute into added time and proved to be the only one of the game. Previous meetings • This is the sides' seventh meeting, with all the previous six coming in a two-year period between 1997 and 1999 and home sides triumphing in all but one. • All those fixtures also came in the UEFA Champions League group stage. Olympiacos won the first of them, 1-0 in Piraeus on their group stage debut in September 1997, before Porto prevailed 2-1 in Portugal two months later with current Porto head coach Sérgio Conceição playing in both games. That proved to be each side's only win in that season's competition, however, Olympiacos finishing third in the section behind Real Madrid and Rosenborg on five points, one more than Porto. • In 1998/99 the teams drew 2-2 in Portugal – three of the four goals coming from the 82nd minute onwards, Siniša Gogić scoring an 89th-minute equaliser for Olympiacos – before a 2-1 home win in Greece. Olympiacos went on to win the section on 11 points, with Porto eliminated in third place on seven. • The teams were again drawn together in the 1999/2000 first group stage, Porto winning 2-0 in their home game and Olympiacos prevailing 1-0 in their own stadium. This time it was the Portuguese side who progressed, finishing second behind Real Madrid with Olympiacos third. Form guide Porto • This is Porto's 24th UEFA Champions League group campaign, fewer only than Real Madrid and Barcelona (both 25). • The Portuguese side have qualified for the last 16 on each of their last three appearances in the group stage. • Porto's 2019/20 UEFA Champions League campaign lasted a single tie, however, Krasnodar beating them on away goals in the third qualifying round (1-0 a, 2-3 h). They went on to finish first in a UEFA Europa League section including Rangers, Young Boys and Feyenoord, but were beaten by Bayer Leverkusen in the round of 32 (1-2 a, 1-3 h). • Porto have lost four of their last five matches in the UEFA Champions League proper (W1) but were unbeaten in nine games in the competition's group stage (W7 D2), winning four in a row, before defeat at Manchester City. • Sérgio Conceição's side won the club's eighth domestic double in 2019/20, claiming Porto's 29th league title and a 17th Portuguese Cup. • The Dragons have won only two of their last six home European matches (D1 L3). • Porto's last home game against Greek visitors ended in a 1-0 defeat against Panathinaikos in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup quarter-final first leg; José Mourinho's side won the return 2-0 – Porto's first victory in Greece, at the seventh attempt (D2 L4) – and went on to lift the trophy. • Porto's overall record at home to Greek clubs is W4 D1 L2. Olympiacos • Olympiacos are in the group stage for the 20th time. In 2019/20 they finished third in their section behind eventual champions Bayern München and Tottenham Hotspur, picking up four points to finish one ahead of Crvena zvezda. • Pedro Martins' side then earned a famous win against Arsenal in the UEFA Europa League round of 32, progressing on away goals after a 2-2 aggregate draw (0-1 h, 2-1 a), but came unstuck against another English club in the last 16, losing to Wolves (1-1 h, 0-1 a). • The Piraeus club made it four UEFA Champions League play-off wins from four ties by defeating Cypriot club Omonoia this season (2-0 h, 0-0 a). • Those results stretched Olympiacos's unbeaten run in European qualifying fixtures to 18 matches (W14 D4), home and away, since a 1-0 loss at Hapoel Beer-Sheva in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. • Champions of Greece for the 45th time in 2019/20 – their first title since 2017 – Olympiacos also lifted the Greek 2 FC Porto - Olympiacos FC Tuesday 27 October 2020 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Dragão, Porto Cup for the 28th time to complete their 18th domestic double. • Olympiacos have lost their last seven away games in the UEFA Champions League group stage, since a 1-0 success at Dinamo Zagreb in October 2015; that is one of only two wins in their last 14 such fixtures (D1 L11). • Erythrolefki have lost four of their last six European away games (W1 D1). • Five of Olympiacos's eight games in Portugal have ended in defeat (W1 D2) including the most recent, a 3-1 loss at Sporting CP in the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League group stage. A 3-2 defeat in the home game against the Lisbon side had ended Olympiacos's five-game unbeaten run against Portuguese Liga clubs, home and away (W4 D1). Links and trivia • José Sá was a Porto player between 2016 and 2018, keeping 12 clean sheets in his 27 first-team appearances. Conceição was his coach in 2017/18. • Olympiacos head coach Pedro Martins has managed União Lamas (2006/07), Lusitânia (2007–09), Espinho (2009– 10), Marítimo (2010–14), Rio Ave (2014–16) and Vitória SC (2016–18) in his native Portugal. • Martins was briefly Porto assistant coach in 2004/05. His record against them as a head coach is W1 D2 L15. • Moussa Marega was part of Martins' squad at Vitória SC in 2016/17. • Martins faced Porto 19 times as a player with five different clubs (W2 D6 L11) and was sent off twice, including in the 1995 Portuguese Super Cup first leg which his Sporting CP side eventually won after a replay. • Have played in Portugal: Bruma (Sporting CP youth 2007–13) Rúben Semedo (Sporting CP 2010–17, Vitória FC 2015/16 loan, Rio Ave 2019 loan) Pêpê (Benfica 2009–19, Estoril 2017/18 loan, Vitória SC 2018–20) Ahmed Hassan (Rio Ave 2012-15, Braga 2015–18) Hilal Soudani (Vitória SC 2011–13) Rúben Vinagre (Sporting CP youth 2012–15) • Has played in Greece: Sérgio Oliveira (PAOK 2019 loan) • Oliveira helped PAOK win the league and cup double during a six-month spell in Greece in the second half of 2018/19. • Porto head coach Conceição was a PAOK player from 2008 to 2010, the final two seasons of his playing career. He faced Olympiacos six times (W1 D2 L3), scoring one goal – the winner in the Greek Cup quarter-final first leg in Feburary 2009. • Coaches Martins and Conceição have faced each other 14 times in Portuguese domestic competition, Conceição recording nine victories to Martins' two. • Martins, however, enjoyed the upper hand against Conceição when both were players, recording three wins to Conceição's one in their five meetings. • Have played together: Otávio, Jesús Manuel Corona & José Sá (Porto 2016–18) Moussa Marega & José Sá (Marítimo 2015/16, Porto 2017/18) Wilson Manafá & Bruma (Sporting CP 2012/13) • International team-mates: Cláudio Ramos, Pepe, Sérgio Oliveira & José Sá, Rúben Semedo, Bruma (Portugal) Sérgio Oliveira & José Sá, Bruma (Portugal Under-21s) Diogo Leita, Diogo Costa & Rúben Vinagre (Portugal Under-21s) Mamadu Loum & Ousseynou Ba, Pape Abou Cissé (Senegal) Latest news Porto • Summer transfers In: Carraça (Boavista)*, Cláudio Ramos (Tondela), Zaidu Sanusi (Santa Clara), Mehdi Taremi (Rio Ave), Evanilson (Fluminense), Toni Martínez (Famalicão), Nanú (Marítimo), Malang Sarr (Chelsea, loan), Marko Grujić (Liverpool, loan), Felipe Anderson (West Ham, loan) * Not in UEFA Champions League squad Out: Fábio Silva (Wolves), Vítor Ferreira (Wolves, loan), Danilo Pereira (Paris, loan), Alex Telles (Manchester United), Tomás Esteves (Reading, loan), Yordán Osorio (Parma), Zé Luís (Lokomotiv) 3 FC Porto - Olympiacos FC Tuesday 27 October 2020 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Dragão, Porto • Pepe's next appearance in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final, will be his 100th. He would be the 40th player to reach that mark. • Porto have won ten of their last 14 games in all competitions (D1 L3), beating Gil Vicente 1-0 in the Liga on Saturday. • The Dragons have lost three of their last 15 matches in the Portuguese Liga (W10 D2), as many as in their 35 previous league outings (W28 D4). • Pepe made his 113th appearance for Portugal in the 3-0 UEFA Nations League win against Sweden on 14 October and is now the country's most capped defender. He is fourth in the overall ranking. • Fábio Vieira provided an assist in Portugal's 3-0 triumph away to Gibraltar on 13 October in a UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier. • Summer signing Zaidu Sanusi made his senior debut for Nigeria in a 1-0 friendly defeat by Algeria on 9 October.