Our prediction for this Europa League match:
Maccabi Tel Aviv
Match Time & Date:
30/01/2025
21:00
Prediction: 0-2
Porto
Porto will try to sneak into the Europa League knockout stages when they take on Maccabi Tel Aviv at Stadion Partizana (neutral location, Belgrade) on Thursday evening. The Dragons aim to recover from a 1-0 loss to Olympiacos and they are seen as hot favourites to beat the Yellows in the decider. As Martim Fernandes limped off with injury in a 1-1 draw with Santa Clara, with Joao Mario likely to step up. Both Marko Grujic and Ivan Marcano are sidelined with injuries.
Maccabi Tel Aviv, meanwhile, are eager to bounce back from their 3-1 defeat to Bodo/Glimt, but with the match being held at a neutral venue, backing the more experienced Porto offers significant value. In their last meeting in a competitive match, back in 2015, Porto defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 3-1 and we predict that history is going to repeat itself. There are no fresh injury worries in the home team.
Highlighted Team (Porto):
Futebol Clube do Porto are one of Portugal’s biggest football clubs playing their matches in front of 50,000 people at their Estadio do Dragao. Porto form biggest rivalries with two other Big Three clubs in Portugal and regular league title contenders – Benfica and Sporting CP. Rivalries between the clubs stem from the historical, political, economical and cultural discrepancies between the cities of Porto and Lisbon. The Dragons, as they are commonly known in Portugal, are the second most successful Portuguese team with a total of 74 trophies to their name.
Porto hold a record of five consecutive league titles which are part of the total tally of 27 Primeira Liga trophies. FC Porto’s success extends to the international scene as well with seven European titles. Two-time European champions from 1987 and 2004, Porto also won two UEFA Cup/Europa League titles, the UEFA Super Cup and the International Cup on two occasions. Together with Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United, Porto have the most appearances in the UEFA Champions League group stage – the total of 20.
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