Sporting CP vs Lille

Sporting are unbeaten in five home European games (W3 D2) for the first time since September 2020 and have lost just one of their last nine on home soil (W3 D5).

Lille remain without a victory in their eight opening games of a UEFA Champions League campaign, drawing three and losing five, with the French side losing four of five of those games on the road, failing to score in each of the defeats.

Sporting CP attacker Victor Gyökeres is just the fifth Swede to score on his UEFA Champions League debut and the first to do so since Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2002 for Ajax against Lyon.

Sporting CP and Lille have met just twice previously in European competition, with the Portuguese side winning home (1-0) and away (2-1) in the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Lille won their first ever away trip to face a Portuguese side in Europe (2-0 v União de Leiria in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in August 2004), but have since lost on each of their last three such trips, and all without scoring a goal.

Sporting CP have only won one of their six games against French sides in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (D1 L4), losing each of the last three in a row. Their last meeting with French opponents in the competition came in the 2022-23 group stage, losing home (0-2) and away (1-4) to Marseille.

Lille have never won their opening game of a UEFA Champions League campaign, drawing three and losing four of their seven such matches. When starting with an away game, they’ve lost three of their four (D1) and failed to score in each defeat.

Sporting CP have won their opening game in two of their previous three UEFA Champions League campaigns (L1), beating Olympiakos 3-2 in 2017-18 and Eintracht Frankfurt 3-0 in 2022-23. Prior to this, they had only won their opening game in two of their first seven appearances in the competition (D2 L3).