Porto away tickets cost €30 and go on general sale on 26 October

Napoli travel to the Estádio do Dragão on Wednesday 4 November for the fourth round of the Champions League league phase. Porto have no points in Europe, but they are winning almost every week in their own league.

by Gennaro SanninoFriday 23 October, 19:07 CET· 6 hours ago

Il Maradona pieno in una notte di Champions League

Il Maradona in una notte europea — Foto: Gaetano Capaldo · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

The away section for Porto-Napoli costs €30. The match is on Wednesday 4 November at 21:00 CET (20:00 UK, 15:00 ET), the fourth round of the league phase.

Sales opened on 21 October, and from Monday 26 October tickets are on general sale. Anyone planning to follow the team to Portugal has a short window. Once the official channels close, only resale platforms are left, and there demand sets the price, not the club.

Two games before the Dragão

Napoli have two more games to play first. Roma visit the Maradona on Saturday 24 October at 18:00, the second test the club has tied to Allegri's future. After that comes the trip to Monza at the end of October.

So anyone buying a Porto ticket now has no idea what kind of team they will see, and maybe not even who the coach will be. That is how football works in Naples: you book the away trip while people are still arguing about a sacking.

Napoli sit 22nd in the Champions League. Their 3 points came from the 4-3 win over Bodø/Glimt, after the 0-1 against Arsenal and the 3-1 defeat at Villarreal. That win brought the first points of the campaign, but it also meant conceding three goals at the Maradona to a side that had 57% of the ball. Allegri said it himself:

"When we are in our own half, we are fragile."

Porto will not forgive that.

Two sides of Porto

In Europe, Porto have lost all three of their games. They are 34th, with no points. Reading too much into that would be a mistake.

They have won four of their last five games in all competitions, including a 3-1 home win over Benfica in the league and a 4-1 win away at Casa Pia. The only defeat was 2-0 to Manchester City in the Champions League. Across those five games they scored ten and conceded four. This is a team that is comfortable at home, and against Napoli they are already playing to stay in the competition.

The history between the clubs is not a happy one. In the 2013-14 Europa League, Porto won 1-0 at the Dragão, then drew 2-2 in Naples and went through. The last meeting was a friendly on 8 August 2015, which ended 0-0, also in Porto.

What the travelling fans want

The supporters making the trip are not expecting miracles. They are asking for a team that does not switch off away from home. The 3-1 at Villarreal is still fresh, and the fanbase feels it is judged in Europe more than anywhere else. €30 and a journey to Portugal deserve a better performance than the one at the Cerámica (Villarreal's ground).

Before any of that, though, Roma come to the Maradona on Saturday 24 October at 18:00.