Porto 2-0 Nacional: result and report

Liga Portugal · Sunday 17 April 2016

Result

Porto 2-0 Nacional

Liga Portugal · Sunday 17 April 2016, 19:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Porto 2-0 Nacional: match report

Porto won against Nacional 2-0 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 17 April 2016. The half-time score was 2-0.

Silvestre Varela opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Porto's goals came from Silvestre Varela (2'), Héctor Herrera (9'), Danilo Pereira (67') and Vincent Aboubakar (85'). Nacional did not score.

Neither side received a card.

Going into the game Porto were 3rd on 60 points from 29 and Nacional 9th on 38 points from 29. Porto went on to finish that season 3rd with 72 points, and Nacional 11th with 38.

Porto lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Nacional in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Jesús Corona of Porto (9.0), ahead of Sérgio Oliveira (8.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Porto wins, 3 draws and 0 for Nacional.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Silvestre VarelaPorto · 1-0
  • 9'Goal · Héctor HerreraPorto · 2-0
  • 67'Goal · Danilo PereiraPorto · 3-0
  • 85'Goal · Vincent AboubakarPorto · 4-0

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Porto 2, draws 3, Nacional 0.

Team news

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

Iker Casillas, Brandon Truter, Bruno Martins Indi, Cote, Danilo Pereira, Rúben Neves, Silvestre Varela, Sérgio Oliveira, Jesús Corona, Héctor Herrera, André Silva

Nacional line-up (4-3-3)

Rui Silva, João Aurélio, Nuno Sequeira, Hichem Belkaroui, Rui Correia, Ali Ghazal, Nenê Bonilha, Washington, Salvador Agra, Tiquinho Soares, Witiness Quembo