Today at 2:45 p.m. ET, FC Porto and Austria Vienna go head-to-head in UEFA Champions League Group G action live from Portugal. The game can be live streamed here.
Porto coach Paulo Fonseca is prepping his team for a last chance to keep their Champions League hopes alive for reaching the Champions League knockout stages when it takes on Austria Vienna today.
The team is unbeaten on the domestic front, but has notched just one victory in Group G so far in the Champions League. The team still sits just one point behind Zenit St Petersburg, but Tuesday's match is still important.
"Porto go into every match wanting to win and it is imperative we do so," Fonseca said per ESPN. "At the moment things are quite clear; if we want to think about qualifying for the next round we have to win the game with Austria Vienna. We had trouble beating this same opponent in Austria. They are a team on the up, with three wins in their last three league games, and who defend well. But we have an obligation to win here and we are motivated."
Porto wraps up its group campaign with a game against Atletico Madrid next month, but enters today's game with some injuries as striker Nabil Ghilas has been getting some treatment for a muscle injury.
Austria's chances of advancing are also slim, but the team has strung together three straight wins which has served as a confidence booster.
"We have talked about our form a lot within the squad and a crisis always gives you the chance to improve things," coach Nenad Bjelica said, according to ESPN. "I think we have become a lot stronger."
The team will hope that Philipp Hosiner will remain on a scoring tear after he netted a hat trick in the team's weekend victory.
"We have seen in Innsbruck how important Philipp is for the team and how much we also depend on his goals." Bjelica told ESPN.
Two teams trying to keep their hopes alive go at it when Porto and Vienna meet on the pitch today.
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