FC Porto vs Estoril Predictions

• Porto play two days before Benfica and can apply some title pressure by cutting into their eight-point lead
• Porto have scored the first goal in 10 of 11 home league games to date and led at HT and FT in nine.
• Estoril have lost their last four Primeira Liga matches and trailed at the break in the last three.
• Mehdi Taremi has scored in five of Porto’s last six home league games.

Porto can apply pressure by playing first

Porto can take advantage of playing first to put some pressure on Primeir Liga leaders Benfica when they face an Estoril side in freefall at the Dragao on Friday. Sergio Conceicao’s side will want to wrap up a swift and decisive victory in order to carry the momentum through to next week’s Champions League last-16 return leg against Inter Milan and ought to make no mistake.

The Dragons will welcome midfielder Mateus Uribe and right-back João Mario back from suspension, but lose centre-back Ivan Marcano to a ban, while Galeno and Evanilson are the only injury doubts.

Estoril lost the services of their captain and left-back Joãozinho for their visit to Dragão after he was booked in a 3-0 home defeat to Vizela on Sunday. That was a fourth loss in a row for the Canaries, who are also without injured centre-back Lucas Áfrico.

Taremi can torment depleted Canaries defence

Porto’s home record speaks for itself and there should be no qualms about backing them to have established an advantage by the break. The Dragons have won nine of their 11 previous home games this term and led at the break in all nine of them.

Iran striker Mehdi Taremi appeals as an anytime goalscorer here as he has bagged in five of Porto’s last six home league games – a total of seven goals.

A 3-0 home victory is taken for correct score purposes as Porto have hit 17 goals in their last six home league contests, at an average of just under three, while Estoril have shipped exactly three goals in two of their last three Primeira Liga outings.

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