Seven curiosities that unite and separate FC Porto from Manchester City



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FC Porto will make their Champions League debut on Wednesday in the 2020/21 edition of the Champions League when they face Manchester City in England

Four players in two shades of blue

There are four players who have already represented FC Porto and Manchester City: Fernando, Mangala, Otamendi and Danilo. With one adaptation or another, he gave a defensive quartet …

Several different fortunes

The Manchester City squad has, together with Liverpool, the highest market value of the competition: 1,080 million euros, according to the Transfermarkt portal. FC Porto is ranked 19th, with a valuation of 251 million euros.

Fuller Portuguese museum

The history of Porto is much more extensive: seven international titles, 67 national titles. Citizens have 34 trophies, including a Recopa, and they have never gone beyond the Champions League socks. Among the players, Pepe has 21 titles, six for FC Porto. Fernandinho counts 27.

Marega knows what it is to mark Ederson

In 2014/15, Marega scored two goals in Marítimo’s 4-0 game against Rio Ave, which at that time had Ederson between the posts. The now City goalkeeper had his revenge at Benfica when he faced Marega twice, then V. Guimarães.

Conceição beat Pep in the only match

It will be the first duel from the bench, but Conceição won when they were both players: in 2002, Lazio beat Brescia 2-1. Guardiola scored for Brescia.

Bernardo Silva meets again … Nanu

There will be no shortage of matches tonight, but perhaps the most difficult to uncover is Bernardo Silva and Nanu: they met at Benfica U-13 in 2006/07.

Zaidu vs Mahrez e Corona vs Aké

In the last match day of the national team, Zaidu, from Nigeria, fought well in the duel with the Algerian Mahrez. In another field, Corona, in the service of Mexico, caused several problems for the Dutch Aké.



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