This Wednesday, Porto will visit Inter Milan in search of an advantage in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League.
The Dragons enter the first leg with a desire to add a sixth qualifier to the quarter-finals and continue their 10-game winning streak this season.
The Ligue I runners-up, who were unbeaten 1-0 at Benfica last October, visit the Serie A runners-up.
Like the White-and-Blues, the Nerazzurri are going through a good phase and have lost only one in the last 18 games. They are in “eighth” for the 10th time, a stage they have not left since 2010/11.
Since the 2003/04 season, Porto have reached this stage 13 times, being relegated seven times, and most recently, in the 2020/21 season, they beat the Italian side Juventus to reach the quarter-finals, in which they lose to eventual European champions Chelsea “.
The two clubs met at this stage of the tournament in the 2004/05 season, when Transalpins won after a hat-trick by Brazilian striker Adriano in the second leg (3:1).
In addition to the difficulty of playing against another “great” European in the Champions, Sergio Conceição, himself a former Inter player, has several players with physical problems, names such as Uribe, Otavio and Evanilson are questionable and are not included in the list. striker Veron.
The meeting between Porto and Inter in the first leg of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League will take place this Wednesday at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium at 21:00 local time (20:00 Lisbon).
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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