Porto hope to end barren home run against Austria

FC Porto are looking for their belated first home points in Group G as they bid to keep alive their qualification hopes against FK Austria Wien.

• Beaten at home by both Club Atlético de Madrid and FC Zenit, Paulo Fonseca's men sit third in the group but would move up to second should they beat Austria and Zenit drop points at home to Atlético.

• As for Nenad Bjelica's Austria, the UEFA Champions League newcomers need a victory to revive their faint hopes of climbing off the foot of Group G. If they fail to win and Zenit pick up at least a point, they will be confirmed as the bottom club.

Previous meetings
• Porto beat Christoph Daum's Austria in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup second round en route to winning the trophy under José Mourinho. Derlei struck the only goal of the first leg in Vienna after 70 minutes and scored again in the return, making it 2-0 with four minutes remaining to add to Hélder Postiga's first-half goal.

• The lineups on 14 November 2002 at Porto's old Estádio das Antas were:
Porto: Vítor Baía, Paulo Ferreira, Jorge Costa, Pedro Emanuel, Valente, Costinha, Maniche (Alenichev 83), Deco, Clayton (Capucho 46), Derlei, Postiga (Jankauskas 73).
Austria Wien: Mandl, Scharner, Akoto, Ratajczyk, Dheedene, Janočko (Rushfeldt 83), Flögel (Kvisvik 61), Wagner, Hašek, Gilewicz (Linz 63), Helstad.

Match background
• Porto have never failed to win any of their home games in a UEFA Champions League group stage. Even if they win, they are already guaranteed their lowest return from three home fixtures at this 32-team stage of the competition, though they did take three points in the second group stage in 2001/02.

• Porto will nevertheless start as strong favourites given that Austria have taken just one point so far in Group G and failed to score. They are 180 minutes away from becoming the first side without a single goal to their name in the UEFA Champions League group stage since Maccabi Haifa FC in 2009/10.

• Although they lost 4-0 at Atlético on matchday four, Austria had previously earned three successive clean sheets away in this season's competition – against FH Hafnarfjördur (0-0) and GNK Dinamo Zagreb (2-0) in qualifying, and Zenit (0-0) on matchday two.

• Austria have tasted defeat on all four of their previous visits to Portugal. Besides their 2002 reverse against Porto they twice lost at SL Benfica – 5-1 in the 1961/62 European Cup first round and 3-0 in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round – and went down 5-1 at CD Nacional in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League group stage. Tomáš Jun, Manuel Ortlechner and Markus Suttner all featured in that match in Funchal.

• Porto kicked off their 2010/11 UEFA Europa League group stage campaign with a 3-0 victory over SK Rapid Wien, with Rolando (26), Falcao (65) and Rúben Micael (77) scoring. Helton, Maicon, Jorge Fucile, and Fernando all played that night for André Villas-Boas' side who won the return 3-1 in Vienna and went on to lift the trophy that season.

Team ties
• Marat Izmailov was in the FC Lokomotiv Moskva team beaten 1-0 at home by Rapid Wien in the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, with Roman Kienast an unused substitute for the visitors.

• Kienast was in the Austria side beaten 6-3 by Portugal in the 2003 UEFA European Under-19 Championship semi-finals.

• Steven Defour was in the R. Standard de Liège side that beat FC Salzburg 3-2 on aggregate in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League round of 32. Defour later helped Belgium win 2-0 against Austria in Vienna in a UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier in March 2011, which Ortlechner watched from the home bench.

• The clubs have a connection in coach Hermann Stessl, who had three separate spells in charge of Austria between the late 70s and early 90s and was also Porto coach for a year between 1980 and '81.