Europa League – Round of 16: Porto challenge Lazio Roma

European football club Porto returns on Thursday from the door they did not want to open. The Dragons team has assumed since the start of the season that the main objective is to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League for the fifth time in a row. But third place in Group B, after a 1-3 defeat in their last home game against Atlético Madrid, saw them qualify for the UEFA secondary competition.

Lazio, opponent in this dam to reach the round of 16, is well known to the Dragons and Sérgio Conceição, one of the idols of the Transalpine team. The FC Porto coach made his career at Lazio in 1998/1999, 1999/2000 and in the first half of the 2003/04 season. He won the Cup Winners’ Cup, the European Super Cup, the First Division and the Italian Cup. .

Shock with great absences

For this match with his former team, Sérgio Conceição will not be able to count on Marchesin and Wendell, who are suspended. Lazio coach Maurizio Sarri will not have the flu. The Portuguese, the current leaders in the Portuguese League, have a history in this competition. FC Porto won the European League on its debut. Led by André Villas Boas, the Blue and White team beat Braga in an all-Portuguese final and lifted the trophy in 2011.

This will be FC Porto’s sixth appearance in the Europa League knockout stage. The Dragon qualified in 2010/11 (Seville) and 2013/2014 (Eintracht Frankfurt) and reached the Round of 16 on three occasions. In 2013/14, FC Porto fell in the quarter-finals.

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