Porto vs Liverpool: 5 players who could decide the outcome

#2 Vincent Aboubakar

Vincent Aboubakar leads Porto's attack

Returning to Porto following a single season on loan at Turkish side Besiktas, Cameroon international striker Vincent Aboubakar has arguably been Porto’s standout player this season thus far in the Champions League. Of Porto’s 15 goals in the group stages of the competition, Aboubakar was responsible for scoring 5, and he also assisted in 2.

His most outstanding performance was probably in Porto’s final group game – a 5-2 victory over last season’s semi-finalists Monaco, in which he scored two and set up Porto’s third goal by Yacine Brahimi. And it’s not just in the Champions League where Aboubakar has been scoring – he’s also hit 15 league goals this season to fire Porto to the top of the Primeira Liga.

With Liverpool’s defence not one of the meanest in the round of 16 – they conceded 5 goals against their strongest opposition, Sevilla, across two games with them in the group stage – Aboubakar can definitely hope to find success. His physical style seems tailor-made to do damage against the likes of Joel Matip and Dejan Lovren and if he can get past those defenders, the tie could be Porto’s.