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FC Porto and Santa Clara bring a Primeira Liga matchup with Porto holding the clear advantage, though Santa Clara have produced occasional resistance. Porto won 1–0 at home on 16 May 2026 and 1–0 away on 4 January 2026, while the teams drew 1–1 in Porto on 26 January 2025. Santa Clara’s 3–1 Taça da Liga win at home on 26 October 2021 supplies a cup counterpoint.
Past matches, FC Porto vs Santa Clara
Match center
Starting eleven
Substitutes FC Porto
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77F
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10M
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24G
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18D
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66M
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13M
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42M
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29F
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11F
Santa Clara Substitutes
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M
78
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F
7
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F
70
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D
42
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M
52
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G
1
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D
94
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D
21
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M
37
Match events
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9'Andrey José Tavares
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56'O. Pietuszewski B. Sainz
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56'G. Veiga D. Gul
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56'Gabri Veiga Deniz Gül
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56'Oskar Pietuszewski Borja Sainz
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62'Elias Manoel Luis Fernando
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63'Vinícius Lopes Welinton Torrao
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69'⚽Sidney Lima Own Goal
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72'João Costa Diogo Costa
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81'Nehuén Pérez Francisco Moura
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82'Bernardo Lima Victor Froholdt
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86'Lucas Soares Gustavo Klismahn
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86'Lucas Soares Paulo Victor
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86'Lucas Soares Paulo Victor
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86'Isaac Gustavo Klismahn
Stats for this game
Matchup FC Porto VS Santa Clara
Porto carry the stronger direction
FC Porto’s broader position is visible in results across both venues. Porto won 1–0 at home on 16 May 2026 and 1–0 at Santa Clara on 4 January 2026, showing the same narrow advantage in opposite settings. The 1–1 league draw in Porto on 26 January 2025 is the exception within the league examples, but it also underlines how a close contest can resist the broader hierarchy. The narrow scores keep the competitive question alive.
Santa Clara retain a cup counterweight
Santa Clara’s 3–1 Taça da Liga win at home on 26 October 2021 remains a meaningful interruption. Its competition context differs from the Primeira Liga meetings, yet the result proves that Porto’s advantage is not immune to a different setting or occasion. Future encounters will ask whether Santa Clara can create another such opening, or whether Porto can keep turning narrow control into separation in both directions of travel.