FC Porto has qualified for the quarter finals of the Champions League on Tuesday evening. The team of trainer Sérgio Conceição could not prevent Juventus from polishing away the 2-1 victory from the first game in ninety minutes, but in the necessary extension, the visit from Portugal managed to get through with a man less on the basis of away goals in the latter. eight to gather: 3-2. The turning point in the match was the red card for Mehdi Taremi, who saw two yellow cards from referee Björn Kuipers within three minutes and was allowed to kick in after 54 minutes. Matthijs de Ligt came within the lines at Juventus after 75 minutes.
Initially, Pirlo did not seem to have access to De Ligt, who suffered a calf injury and was initially not included in the game selection. This changed prior to the match, as a result of which the defender took a seat on the reserve bench. Giorgio Chiellini also started on the bench. The pair saw how Juventus created the first danger of the game when Álvaro Morata had the ball in front of the header within five minutes, but saw the doctrine go straight into the hands of Agustín Marchesín. Taremi hit the bar in two instances on a pass from Zaidu Sanusi.
FC Porto was clearly the parent in the first half hour, created a chance for a chance and took the lead after more than fifteen minutes of play. Moussa Marega served Taremi, after which Merih Demiral hit the supporting leg of the Porto striker in an attempt to clear the ball. Sérgio Oliveira took place behind the ball and sent Wojciech Szczesny in the wrong direction from eleven meters: 0-1. Even after the opening goal, Porto kept the initiative and almost doubled the score via Jesús Corona. The winger shot into the hands of Szczesny in the short corner after an individual action from the right.
In the end of the first half, Juventus opposed a header from Morata and a volley from Adrien Rabiot, without success. Early in the second half, the home team tied the score. Cristiano Ronaldo controlled a deep pass from Leonardo Bonucci, after which Federico Chiesa shot the ball beautifully into the far cross: 1-1. Juventus fought back into the game in the early stages of the second half and ended up with one more man after ten minutes of play, when Taremi received two yellow cards in the space of three minutes. The attacker first committed a foul and two minutes later kicked the ball away.
That surplus situation led to Juventus taking the lead for the first time just under ten minutes later and brushing away the defeat from the first game. Cuadrado reached Chiesa on size and the attacker hit the far post: 2-1. Just before that, the same Chiesa had hit the post after Pepe’s intervention. FC Porto got away well in the extra time. Morata thought he had made it 3-1 on a request from Arthur, but the goal was rejected due to offside. Not much later, a wonderful shot by Juan Cuadrado ended with the left on the crossbar and Porto narrowly reached the extension.
Also in the extension, the teams of Pirlo and Sérgio Conceição were well matched. The best chance in the first half was for Marega, who headed the doctrine right into the hands of Szczesny after an excellent action by Corona. The devil was clearly in the second half of extra time. A low free kick by Sérgio Oliveira made it 2-2 in minute 115, but Juventus immediately followed through Adrien Rabiot: 3-2. Juventus tried to score the decisive fourth goal with De Ligt in the striker, but without result.