Porto can take big step towards regaining league title tonight | OneFootball

There have been some big games across Europe over the weekend but there is one more still to come this evening in Portugal.

FC Porto currently sit top of the Primeira Liga, four points ahead of second-place defending champions Sporting and are aiming to regain the title that they last won in the 2021/22 campaign under Sérgio Conceição.

Until just last week, Porto had been having a near perfect season remaining undefeated until suffering a shock loss away to Casa Pia.

Francesco Farioli's side can put that right if they win this evening at home and doing so would give them a healthy seven-point lead, giving the Dragons plenty of wiggle room especially in a league that has head-to-head tiebreakers.

Defeat to Sporting though would reduce the deficit to just a point which is particularly dangerous with a trip to take on José Mourinho's Benfica next month.

One thing Porto will be looking to rely on tonight is their rock-solid defence made up of former Premier League players Jan Bednarek, Jakub Kiwior, and 41-year-old Thiago Silva.

Indeed, Porto have conceded just six league goals all season (two of which were scored by Casa Pia last time out) five fewer conceded than Sporting (11) and Benfica (12). That defence has been particularly important when Porto have surprisingly scored fewer goals (41) than sixth-placed Estoril (43) with Braga, Benfica, and Sporting also having netted more.

Sporting are also the league's top scorers with 54 in total meaning that the key tonight will be for that Porto defence to keep the creativity of Pedro Gonçalves and Francisco Trincão at bay and make sure Colombian striker Luis Suárez – the summer replacement for Viktor Gyökeres who has 18 goals in 20 league games – doesn't find the net again.