Porto 2-1 Académica: result and report

Liga Portugal · Sunday 20 December 2015

Result

Porto 2-1 Académica

Liga Portugal · Sunday 20 December 2015, 20:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Porto 2-1 Académica: match report

Porto beat Académica 2-1 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 20 December 2015. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Danilo Pereira opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Porto's goals came from Danilo Pereira (7'), Vincent Aboubakar (53') and Héctor Herrera (72'). Académica scored through Rui Pedro (84').

Discipline: Porto received 1 yellow card; Académica received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Porto were 2nd on 32 points from 13 and Académica 16th on 10 points from 13. Porto went on to finish that season 3rd with 72 points, and Académica 18th with 24.

Porto lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Académica in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Miguel Layún of Porto (8.5), ahead of Héctor Herrera (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Porto wins, 0 draws and 1 for Académica.

Going into the match Porto's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Académica's W-L-D-D-D.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Danilo PereiraPorto · 1-0
  • 34'Yellow card · Rafael LopesAcadémica
  • 53'Goal · Vincent AboubakarPorto · 2-0
  • 53'Yellow card · Fernando AlexandreAcadémica
  • 72'Goal · Héctor HerreraPorto · 3-0
  • 84'Goal · Rui PedroAcadémica · 3-1
  • 89'Yellow card · Danilo PereiraPorto

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Porto 2, draws 0, Académica 1.

Team news

Porto line-up (4-2-3-1)

Iker Casillas, Brandon Truter, Bruno Martins Indi, Maicon, Miguel Layún, Rúben Neves, Yacine Brahimi, Héctor Herrera, Jesús Corona, Danilo Pereira, Vincent Aboubakar

Académica line-up (4-4-2)

Pedro José da Silva Trigueira, Aderlan, Ricardo Nascimento, Iago Santos, Richard Ofori, Ivanildo, Nuno Piloto, Nii Plange, Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Nuno, Rafael Lopes