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Tuesday September 18, 2007 Finished Estdio do Drago

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Porto

  • Gonzalez 8’

Liverpool

  • Kuijt 17’
  1. Ten-man Liverpool held

    Ten-man Liverpool held

    Liverpool held onto a 1-1 draw at Porto despite having Jermaine Pennant sent off after 58 minutes in their Champions League Group A clash. A Lucho Gonzalez penalty put the hosts ahead after eight minutes but Dirk Kuyt levelled soon after. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Porto
    • Liverpool
    • 90+2 Mascherano now booked for a foul on the right... the free-kick is easily cleared though and that is the final whistle.
    • 90+1 Bosingwa gets away from Hyppia and crosses in for Farias but cleared by Finnan then Aurelio!
    • 89' Arbeloa is forced into conceding a corner, which Quaresma goes across to the right to take... Finnan heads it away but still with Porto... Lisandro flicks on but Reina gets it eventually.
    • 88' Gerrard to Hyppia, now Kuyt, back with Aurelio and the cross comes in but too long for Hyppia and out for a goal kick.
    • 87' Aurelio forward, slips it into Gerrard who beats one man on the edge of the box and sees Kuyt's late run to slip it across to him but Quaresma gets back to touch it behind for a corner!
    • 86' Bosingwa gets past Aurelio then runs into Hyppia, wants a penalty but no chance there.
    • 85' LIVERPOOL SUB: Fabio Aurelia makes a welcome return from months out with an Achilles injury, Ryan Babel makes way. Quaresma then takes a free-kick from the left but Liverpool clear.
    • 84' Mascherano somehow escapes a booking for scything down Farias.
    • 78' A bit of a lull in the play now as neither side keeps the ball for more than two passes...
    • 76' LIVERPOOL SUB: Voronin on for Torres. Not the greatest Champions League debut for El Nino.
    • 75' Kuyt booked for a deliberate handball... the free-kick on the left will be taken by Quaresma but wasted, long and aimless.
    • 74' Gerrard plays Torres in on the right, he goes down but nothing given and eventually gets up.
    • 73' Liverpool on the attack, Torres on the left but he's all on his own... he cannot beat the defender then fouls Assuncao and earns a booking.
    • 71' Corner to Porto... Quaresma to take and it slips through the fingers of Reina but out for another corner!
    • 66' Free-kick Liverpool, quickly taken by Finnan to Kuyt running in at the near post he whips it across and Hyppia leaves it but Babel can't get there! Porto break, now Farias almost gets past Carra but has to settle for a corner.
    • 64' PORTO SUBS: Meireles and Sektoui off for Argentine duo Mariano Gonzalez and Ernesto Farias.
    • 61' Quaresma back on the left, cross to the far post and it's Lucho who knocks it back in but cleared and Boswinga with a cross REINA COMES OUT AND IS ALL OVER THE PLACE WITH THE PUNCH AND QUARESMA CHIPS HIM BUT OFF THE LINE BY HYPPIA! The danger still isn't clear but eventually Liverpool get it away. Phew.
    • 58' Pennant slides in near the goalline chasing the defender Fucile and he gets a second yellow and is off. It wasn't a great tackle and was pointless as the ball was out anyway.
    • 56' Kuyt goes down in the box under pressure from Bosingwa who looked to have touched his shirt ever so slightly but he went down too heavily.
    • 54' Quaresma on the right again, he does Arbeloa and whips in a ball from the byline but just too far for Lisandro at the far post!
    • 53' Quaresma on the right now, sends in a teasing cross but it doesn't curl enough and the claim is easy for Reina.
    • 50' Quaresma to take, then... he swings it in with his right but straight at the two-man wall.
    • 49' Dangerous position for Porto after Quaresma is brought down by Pennant on the left, he HAS to be careful or he'll walk.
    • 46' Second half underway!
    • 45+1 Half time at Porto, 1-1.
    • 45' The ball drops to Babel at some range and he has a crack but blocked by the defender.
    • 40' Kuyt with a high foot on Fucile, and if he's not careful he'll talk his way into the book,,,
    • 39' Another interesting set-piece by Porto, diagonal to the far corner of the box, but Carra is alive to it and Liverpool clear.
    • 38' Porto string about 20 passes together before Mascherano fouls Lisandro on the right... Quaresma to take...
    • 36' Porto with some more of the ball now but unable to break Liverpool's rearguard...
    • 34' Babel on the left, he spots a run on the right from Pennant and plays it across to him but the ball picks up some skid on the turf and fizzes away out of play.
    • 32' Kuyt fins Babel on the left but he runs the ball out under pressure.
    • 30' Quaresma takes the corner... it drops to Fucile but he misses.
    • 29' Quaresma to swing it in from the right.... but he plays it short to LUCHO but his shot is deflected over by Mascherano. Clever set piece again.
    • 28' Bosingwa wins a free kick off Arbeloa, just outside the area...
    • 26' So, a free-kick on the left wing.... swung into the area when no-one was expecting it and BRUNO ALVES FLIES IN LATE WITH THE HEADER BUT JUST WIDE! Great improvisation.
    • 25' Pennant is booked for scissoring Quaresma..
    • 18' Sektoui again on the right, hits the byline but Liverpool are alive to his danger this time...
    • 17' Free-kick to Liverpool on the right, Finnan to take... he sends it diagonal to the far post and HYPPIA FLICKS IT ONTO KUYT WHO HEADS THE BALL IN OFF THE BAR!! 1-1!
    • 15' Fucile catches out Finnan again, but Carragher blocks the route this time. Finnan not having a great time...
    • 10' Pennant takes the free-kick from the left... but Torres can't get on the end of it. Porto have deserved this early lead, Liverpool look sluggish.
    • 9' Bosingwa goes in two-footed on Babel and gets booked. He got the ball but both his feet were off the ground.
    • 8' Now Reina is a master at saving these, can he do it again... no, he dives to his right, Lucho Gonzalez strokes it down the middle, 1-0 at the Estadio Dragao.
    • 8' Sektoui is played in on the right and his run takes him ahead of the rather slow Hyppia and Reina has rushed out and taken him down! Penalty!
    • 7' Quaresma does well to keep the ball in, sliding in at the touchline after a slightly stray pass from Lucho, but Pennant fouls him and Lubos Michel has a word...
    • 6' Liverpool finally get out of their half with Gerrard trying to surge forward, but Bosingwa gets back to clear.
    • 4' Quaresma gets the ball 25 yards out and he has a crack but inches wide! Great effort from the man who all the big clubs - including Liverpool - were linked with in the summer.
    • 2' Out for a second corner which Liverpool clear but Porto come again and Quaresma plays it across to LISANDRO WHO IS IN BUT REINA OUT TO BLOCK! Lisandro was left to go one-on-one after a slip by Finnan. Early chance for Porto.
    • 1' Corner won by Lisandro early on, Hyppia across for Liverpool to force him wide...
    • 1' Match underway in Porto!
    • - LIVERPOOL TEAM NEWS: Fernando Torres is partnered by Dirk Kuyt up front after both were benched for the goalless draw against Portsmouth on Saturday, while Alvaro Arbeloa continues at left back with Fabio Aurelio on the bench. Peter Crouch and Andriy Voronin are listed as subs.
    • - PORTO TEAM NEWS: Fucile plays ahead of Marek Cech, rested following the latter's international exertions for Slovakia last week.
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.com's LIVE coverage of Porto v Liverpool, in the opening fixtures of Group A of the Champions League - starting at 19:45 BST!

  • Team Stats

    Porto Stats Liverpool
    56% Possession 43%
    14 Shots 2
    3 Shots on target 1
    0 Saves 0
    10 Corners 1
    24 Fouls 14
    1 Offsides 0
    1 Yellow cards 3
    0 Red cards 1
    24 Tackles 30
    302 Accurate passes 190
    55 Bad passes 53

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Porto
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      33 Nuno Simões do Espírito Santo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0
      2 Bruno Alves 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 31 9 1
      13 Jorge Fucile 0 2 0 3 4 0 0 40 16 4
      14 João Andrade 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 22 1 1
      17 Tarik Sektioui 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 12 2 1
      8 Luis González 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 36 3 2
      6 Paulo Assuncao 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 48 5 3
      16 Raúl Meireles 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 27 6 2
      12 José Bosingwa 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 28 0 4
      7 Ricardo Quaresma 0 4 1 2 9 0 0 25 9 4
      9 Lisandro López 0 2 1 2 3 0 0 14 4 0
      11 Mariano Gonzalez 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 0 2
      25 Przemyslaw Kazmierczak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      5 Marek Cech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Hugo Ventura 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      4 Milan Stepanov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      19 Ernesto Farias 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
      18 Mario Bolatti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Liverpool
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      25 Jose Reina 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 6 0
      23 Jamie Carragher 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 9 2 4
      17 Alvaro Arbeloa 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 16 11 2
      3 Steve Finnan 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 27 2 2
      4 Sami Hyypia 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 20 4 1
      8 Steven Gerrard 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 21 3 2
      20 Javier Mascherano 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 24 5 5
      16 Jermaine Pennant 0 0 0 6 2 0 0 11 0 4
      19 Ryan Babel 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 17 12 2
      9 Fernando Torres 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 12 3 0
      18 Dirk Kuyt 1 1 1 4 1 0 0 21 4 7
      11 Yossi Benayoun 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      30 Charles Itandje 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      10 Andrej Voronin 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
      21 Lucas Leiva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      5 Daniel Agger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Peter Crouch 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      12 Fabio Aurelio 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1

  • Summary

    • 90+1 Bosingwa gets away from Hyppia and crosses in for Farias but cleared by Finnan then Aurelio!
    • 87' Aurelio forward, slips it into Gerrard who beats one man on the edge of the box and sees Kuyt's late run to slip it across to him but Quaresma gets back to touch it behind for a corner!
    • 66' Free-kick Liverpool, quickly taken by Finnan to Kuyt running in at the near post he whips it across and Hyppia leaves it but Babel can't get there! Porto break, now Farias almost gets past Carra but has to settle for a corner.
    • 61' Quaresma back on the left, cross to the far post and it's Lucho who knocks it back in but cleared and Boswinga with a cross REINA COMES OUT AND IS ALL OVER THE PLACE WITH THE PUNCH AND QUARESMA CHIPS HIM BUT OFF THE LINE BY HYPPIA! The danger still isn't clear but eventually Liverpool get it away. Phew.
    • 58' Pennant slides in near the goalline chasing the defender Fucile and he gets a second yellow and is off. It wasn't a great tackle and was pointless as the ball was out anyway.
    • 54' Quaresma on the right again, he does Arbeloa and whips in a ball from the byline but just too far for Lisandro at the far post!
    • 29' Quaresma to swing it in from the right.... but he plays it short to LUCHO but his shot is deflected over by Mascherano. Clever set piece again.
    • 26' So, a free-kick on the left wing.... swung into the area when no-one was expecting it and BRUNO ALVES FLIES IN LATE WITH THE HEADER BUT JUST WIDE! Great improvisation.
    • 17' Free-kick to Liverpool on the right, Finnan to take... he sends it diagonal to the far post and HYPPIA FLICKS IT ONTO KUYT WHO HEADS THE BALL IN OFF THE BAR!! 1-1!
    • 8' Now Reina is a master at saving these, can he do it again... no, he dives to his right, Lucho Gonzalez strokes it down the middle, 1-0 at the Estadio Dragao.
    • 8' Sektoui is played in on the right and his run takes him ahead of the rather slow Hyppia and Reina has rushed out and taken him down! Penalty!
    • 4' Quaresma gets the ball 25 yards out and he has a crack but inches wide! Great effort from the man who all the big clubs - including Liverpool - were linked with in the summer.
    • 2' Out for a second corner which Liverpool clear but Porto come again and Quaresma plays it across to LISANDRO WHO IS IN BUT REINA OUT TO BLOCK! Lisandro was left to go one-on-one after a slip by Finnan. Early chance for Porto.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Lubos Michel (SVK)

  • Porto

    Manager: Jesulado Ferreira

    Captain: Lucho Gonzalez

    On the Field

    • Nuno
    • Bosingwa
    • Andrade
    • Alves
    • Fucile
    • Gonzalez
    • Meireles
    • Assuncao
    • Sektioui
    • Quaresma
    • Lopez

    Subs

    • Farias
    • Gonzalez
    • Cech
    • Stepanov
    • Ventura
    • Kazmierczak
    • Bolatti

    Injured

    • Postiga
    • da Silva

    Suspended

    None

  • Liverpool

    Manager: Rafa Benitez

    Captain: Steven Gerrard

    On the Field

    • Reina
    • Finnan
    • Carragher
    • Hyypia
    • Arbeloa
    • Pennant
    • Gerrard
    • Mascherano
    • Babel
    • Torres
    • Kuijt

    Subs

    • Aurelio
    • Crouch
    • Benayoun
    • Itandje
    • Voronin
    • Agger
    • Lucas

    Injured

    • Riise
    • Kewell
    • Sissoko

    Suspended

    None