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The draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League dictated a duel between FC Porto and “Vecchia Signora”.
FC Porto will face the Italians Juventus in the knockout stages of the Champions League, dictated the draw held this Monday at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon (Switzerland).
The Portuguese champion, winner of the most important European club competition in 1987 and 2004, will face “Vecchia Signora”, who also won the Champions League twice (1985 and 1996) and whose main figure is the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo .
The last time the Blue and White club and Ronaldo met was on April 15, 2009, at Estádio do Dragão, when the Portuguese international decided the quarter-final tie in favor of Manchester United, who won 1-0. , after the 2-2 draw at Old Trafford.
As a rival, Ronaldo has games for Sporting and Manchester United. For the Leonese shield, the last referee he did, on June 1, 2003, at Estádio das Antas, in FC Porto’s 2-0 victory, when the lions’ coach was Laszlo Boloni. The first was on January 11, 2003, in Alvalade (defeat 0-1). For the “red devils” in 2003/04, two games, in the round of 16, when FC Porto was champion of Europe, and in 2008/09, in the “quarters”.
FC Porto and Juventus have met five times in history, with the Italian champions taking the best of four. The other result was a draw.
In 2017, also in the “eighth” of the Champions League, the team now led by Pirlo won both games, 1-0 in Italy and 2-0 in Dragão.
Having finished second in Group C, behind Manchester City, the team led by Sérgio Conceição will play the first leg at home on February 16, 17, 23 or 24, and the second in Turin, 9, 10, 16 March 17.
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