FC Porto look to buck poor record after home draw with Nottingham Forest | OneFootball

Everything is still wide open: that is the best way to sum up the tie between FC Porto and Nottingham Forest after the first leg.

Following the 1-1 draw at the Estádio do Dragão, the Portuguese side and the English club will battle for a place in the Europa League semi-finals next Thursday at the City Ground.

Given this scenario, and with the help of PlaymakerStats, we looked back in time to understand how European ties ended when FC Porto drew 1-1 at home in the opening match. Although the past does not determine the future, the truth is that the record is not particularly encouraging, dear reader.

So far, the blue-and-white side has played five European ties in which it recorded a 1-1 draw in the first leg... and ended up being eliminated on four of those occasions.

The most recent example of this trend came last season: in 2024/25, the team then managed by Vítor Bruno drew 1-1 with Roma in the Europa League playoff, before then losing 3-2 to the Italians in the second leg.

Interestingly, it was also against Roma that FC Porto secured its only qualification after drawing 1-1 at home: in 2016/17, in the Champions League playoff, Nuno Espírito Santo’s team won 0-3 in Italy after the draw.

The other three cases go back several years.

In 2006/07, in the Champions League round of 16, FC Porto was beaten by Chelsea in London, 2-1; in 2004/05, elimination came after a 3-1 defeat to Inter Milan.

At the end of the last century, the first elimination after a 1-1 draw in the first leg was recorded, fittingly against Bayern Munich, with a 1-2 defeat in Germany.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.