Categories: Football

Porto is heroic: Juve's failure

As long as the game remains, we have to keep trying, look for the opposite goal, keep believing in our chances, no matter how minimal they may seem ”. That phrase was written by Carlos Matallanas, who left us this March 9, in his book 'Life is a game'. Porto applied it perfectly at the Allianz Stadium, lmaking an absolutely unexpected qualification through thick and thin, and causing one of the worst failures in Juventus history.

His triumph was long-suffering, but the Portuguese started very well. Taremi struck Bonucci off the crossbar, and shortly thereafter cunningly forced a penalty, seeking contact with Demiral. Sergio Oliveira opened the can from eleven meters, but from there, basically, Porto disappeared.

Juve began to press and at the start of the restart put the boards with a thread from Chiesa to pass from Cristiano. Taremi also ruined his performance with two absurd yellow cards between 52 'and 54'.

Outnumbered, the Dragons could only get under the nose of their goalkeeper, hoping that the 2-1 would not come. Chiesa, However, he was unstoppable and, having hit the post, made the 2-1 with a header thanks to the umpteenth center of Cuadrado. The Colombian arrived within inches of 3-1 in discount, but his thread hit the crossbar and he had to go to extra time.

After a first half without chances, in the last 15 'everything happened. The most important thing was a free kick by Sergio Oliveira, who slipped between Cristiano's legs, just him, and sealed the pass of the Dragons. Rabiot's 3-2 and the final arreón were of no use: Juve, for the second year in a row, left the Champions League in the round of 16. It was not what was expected signing CR7.

Changes

Malang sarr (61 ', Otavinho), Luis Diaz (70 ', Zaidu Sanusi), Matthijs de Ligt (74 ', Bonucci), Weston McKennie (74 ', Ramsey), Marko Grujic (89 ', Mateus Uribe), Dejan Kulusevski (101 ', Arthur Melo), Federico Bernardeschi (101 ', Federico Chiesa), Toni Martinez (105 ', Moussa Marega), Diogo leite (117 ', Jesús Corona), Mamadou Loum Ndiaye (117 ', Sergio Oliveira)

Goals

0-1, 18 ': Sergio Oliveira, 1-1, 48 ': Federico Chiesa, 2-1, 62 ': Federico Chiesa, 2-2, 114 ': Sergio Oliveira, 3-2, 116 ': Rabiot

Cards

Referee: Björn Kuipers
VAR Referee: Pol van Boekel
Otavinho (46 ', Yellow) Mehdi Taremi (51 ', Yellow) Mehdi Taremi (53 ', Red) Federico Chiesa (92 ', Yellow) Square (91 ', Yellow) Sergio Oliveira (96 ', Yellow) Federico Bernardeschi (102 ', Yellow) Rabiot (113 ', Yellow) Mbemba (121 ', Yellow

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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