The visitors look a different side from the one that took the Portuguese league by storm last season, and Al Hain-Cole thinks they will find themselves out of their depth in Italy

Fiorentina begin their quest for Europa League glory on Thursday evening, as Pacos de Ferreira visit the Stadio Artemio Franchi for their opening Group E game.
The 1990 finalists have not won a European trophy since 1961 but are clear 1/3 (1.33) favourites with BetVictor to get this campaign off to a winning start tonight.

Os Castores enter the competition after suffering an 8-3 aggregate defeat to Zenit St Petersburg in their Champions League play-off, but are available at 9/1 (10.00) to pick up only their second ever European victory in nine attempts.

The Portuguese side have drawn two of their previous three away games in this competition, and you can get odds of 17/4 (5.25) on them earning a famous point in Tuscany.

The visitors defied all expectations last season to become just the seventh different side to finish in the Primeira Liga’s top three within the last 25 years but unfortunately for them this gatecrashing act did not go unnoticed by the traditional heavyweights, as Porto promptly poached manager Paulo Fonseca to replace the outgoing Vitor Pereira.