Porto vs Moreirense - prediction, team news, lineups

Porto look to widen their flawless commencement to the Primeira Liga play arsenic they invited Moreirense to Estadio bash Dragao for matchday five's opening fixture connected Friday evening.

The Dragons person won each 4 of their league matches truthful far, leaving them 2 points wide atop the Portuguese top-flight table, portion their visitors from Moreira beryllium 11th aft collecting 4 points from 3 games.

Match preview

Porto erstwhile again looked assured astatine some ends of the transportation past weekend, beating recently promoted Academico de Viseu 3-0 courtesy of 3 first-half goals from Andre Silva, Gabri Veiga and William Gomes.

While the effect saw the Dragons people much than 2 goals for the archetypal clip successful the caller campaign, it besides preserved their presumption arsenic 1 of lone 2 sides yet to concede this season, having antecedently dispatched Alverca (2-0), Rio Ave (2-0) and Arouca (2-0) successful the league.

Francesco Farioli's men person present gone six competitory matches without shipping a goal, a tally that stretches backmost to their constrictive Super Cup triumph implicit second-tier Torreense connected August 1 and a 1-0 triumph against Santa Clara connected the last time of their title-winning run past term.

Porto person intelligibly carried guardant the antiaircraft blueprint from that 2025-26 season, successful which they recorded a league-high 21 cleanable sheets, and determination is each accidental they could surpass that tally this clip around, fixed they had already conceded by this signifier past term.

It took until matchday 4 for Porto to fto successful their archetypal league extremity past season, portion 3 much victories volition inactive beryllium required to lucifer the winning streak that opened their 2025-26 Primeira Liga campaign.

Fans of the Dragons volition astatine slightest beryllium assured of getting person to that people this weekend, with their broadside having won each of the past 8 league meetings against Friday's opponents, including a 3-0 triumph erstwhile the teams past met astatine the Dragao successful March.

Trips to this crushed person offered small respite for Moreirense, with the visitors having mislaid each 1 of their 15 erstwhile distant matches against Porto successful the Primeira Liga, though Vasco Botelho da Costa's men volition not number themselves abbreviated heading into this one.

Although past weekend's 1-0 victory, secured by Kiko's audacious rabona goal, came distant astatine a struggling Casa Pia, it did people Os Verdes e Brancos' archetypal triumph of the play pursuing an opening play gully with Braga and a humiliating 4-0 decision astatine Arouca.

Moreirense's matchday 3 fixture against Benfica was postponed and volition present instrumentality spot adjacent Wednesday, leaving Da Costa with the task of steering his broadside done consecutive encounters with 2 of the country's accepted “Big Three”.

Da Costa guided the Moreira nine to a seventh-placed decorativeness successful his archetypal afloat play past term, though conscionable 16 of the team's 43 points were collected from 17 distant matches, a grounds the 37-year-old volition beryllium keen to amended upon, with past weekend's occurrence offering aboriginal encouragement.

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Team News

Porto's triumph implicit Academico came astatine a cost, with left-back Zaidu Sanusi forced disconnected successful the aboriginal stages owed to a musculus wounded that volition support him retired of this one.

Versatile defender Martim Fernandes, who replaced the Nigerian successful that encounter, is expected to deputise connected the near broadside of the backline, with earthy enactment Francisco Moura's aboriginal astatine the nine inactive uncertain.

Souza could besides slot into that role, though the Brazilian is improbable to spell consecutive into the starting broadside pursuing his indebtedness determination from Tottenham Hotspur this week.

Porto volition besides beryllium without Vasco Sousa, Andre Miranda, Oskar Pietuszewski and Samu Aghehowa, each of whom are inactive undertaking conditioning enactment up of their return, portion Sekou Fofana continues to physique his mode backmost to afloat fitness.

Veiga has been successful superb signifier since the commencement of the season, contributing straight to 5 goals crossed the opening 4 league matches, including a extremity and an assistance past clip retired and helium is expected to clasp his spot successful midfield.

Over successful the visiting camp, Kiko's onslaught against Casa Pia could yet beryllium a contender for the extremity of the season, and the left-back volition beryllium anxious to supply further attacking menace this weekend.

In presumption of absentees for Moreirense, summertime signing Janderson remains sidelined arsenic helium works his mode backmost from an wounded sustained during his clip astatine Cruzeiro.

Porto imaginable starting lineup:

D Costa; A Costa, Bednarek, Kiwior, Fernandes; Froholdt, Rosario, Veiga; Gomes, Silva, Pepe

Moreirense imaginable starting lineup:

Ferreira; Pinto, Batista, Maracas, Kiko; John, Liberato, Mendonca, Veloso, Landerson; Duville-Parsemain

We say: Porto 2-0 Moreirense

Porto's antiaircraft grounds speaks for itself, and determination is small to suggest that modular volition driblet this weekend, peculiarly fixed the Dragons' dominance successful this fixture, having kept cleanable sheets successful 5 of the past 8 league meetings betwixt the sides.

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