Two years after Ajax Amsterdam (in quarters), a year after Lyon (in eighth), FC Porto flew to Turin on Monday in search of a qualification that would make Juventus’ recent losses in the Champions League a painful triptych. No need to produce a presentation on the UEFA indices or the respective financial strength of the opponents to understand: the sequence would constitute a powerful failure for the team which, in addition to marching on Serie A nine years in a row, was a finalist of the C1 in 2015 and 2017.
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