Porto and Shakhtar Donetsk are going to play on Wednesday the 13th of December at 8:00 pm in the 6th week of the Champions League. The match is going to be played in Porto at the Estádio Do Dragão. The encounter will be officiated by Istvan Kovacs.
Porto occupies the 2nd position in the standings with 9 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against FC Barcelona in its last match in the Champions League. As of now, it has won 3 times and lost twice.
Shakhtar Donetsk sits in the 3rd position in the table with 9 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Antwerp in its last match in the Champions League. So far, it has won 3 times and lost twice.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Porto
Porto has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (4 times or 80.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (4 times) and 4-3-3 (once).
Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro Conceição is expected to play against Shakhtar Donetsk with the following players: Diogo Costa, Zaidu Sanusi, David Carmo, Jorge Sánchez, Pepê, Wenderson Galeno, Stephen Eustáquio, Alan Varela, Mehdi Taremi and Evanilson.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Porto would be 25.60.
Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro Conceição will probably not be able to employ Wendell and João Mário because of injury.
Iván Marcano and Gabriel Veron will definitely miss the match.
Shakhtar Donetsk
Shakhtar Donetsk has mostly adopted the 4-1-4-1 line-up most used during the season (4 times or 80.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-1-4-1 (4 times) and 4-3-3 (once).
Marino Pusic is expected to play against Porto with the following players: Dmytro Riznyk, Irakli Azarovi, Valeriy Bondar, Mykola Matvienko, Giorgi Gocholeishvili, Taras Stepanenko , Newerton, Georgiy Sudakov, Artem Bondarenko, Oleksandr Zubkov and Danylo Sikan.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Shakhtar Donetsk would be 23.91.
Yukhym Konoplya and Lassina Traoré will definitely miss the match.
