The Germans lost again to Porto by a landslide
The San Sebastian team missed a penalty
The Bayer Leverkusen of Xabi Alonso He suffered a debacle this Wednesday when he fell thrashed, in a Champions League match, by 0-3, against a minimalist Porto that did very little for the offense despite which he was enough to score three goals, two of them from penalties.
DATA SHEET
Champions League
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EPO
LINEUPS
Bayer Leverkusen
Hradecky; Bakker, Kossounou (Tapsoba, 69′), Tah, Hincapié; Aránguiz, Demirbay, Adli (Paulinho, 57′); Diaby (Fosu-Mensah, 88′), Hudson-Odoi (Hlozek, 69′); Schick.
Port
Diogo Costa; Zaidu, Fábio Cardoso, David Carmo, Joao Mário (Evanilson, 46′); Uribe (Folha, 85′), Eustáquio (Toni Martínez, 92′); Galen (Borges, 85′), Pepe; Taremi (Loader. 92′), Otávio.
goals
0-1 M. 6 Galen. 0-2 M. 53, Taremi, from a penalty. 0-3 M. 64, Taremi, from a penalty.
Referee
István Kovács (Romania). TA: Bakker (63′), Hincapié (63′) and Paulinho (84′) / Joao Mário (32′) and Borges (93′).
Incidents
BayArena. 30,000 spectators.
Porto goalkeeper Diogo Costa, became the great protagonist in the first part of the game and was decisive for his team to go ahead at half-time to lay the foundations for victory.
First, in minute 6, he put an impressive pass from the small area to Galen who, after beating Kossonou who was marking him, reached the area and scored with a low shot of the right leg.
In the little that the party had Leverkusen had tried to take the initiative although without having managed to manufacture any clear arrival.
With the score in favor, Porto withdrew a lot and filled their own area with men. Leverkusen had the ball but also had difficulty getting to the finish.
The great opportunity for the aspirin team came in the 15th minute when the referee Istvan Kovacs, alerted by the VAR, sanctioned a penalty for a clear foul against Bakker inside the area.
However, what came was not the equalizing goal, but the second act of Diogo Costa’s personal deed that stopped the auction by Kerim Demirbay.
Leverkusen remained the owner of the ball. Bakker had in minute 34 a great opportunity to pass from Mousa Diaby with a shot inside the area that Diogo Costa cleared for a corner with a good save.
a minute laters a shot by Adli ended in the net but the VAR annulled the goal which would have been Leverkusen’s equalizer as the ball had hit Patrick Schick’s elbow before entering the goal.
In the second half, in minute 49, Leverkusen had a good chance in minute 49, with a shot by Adli that Cardoso blocked but then, in minute 53, came the first penalty.
Kovacs had first called a foul outside the area. Then the VAR corrected and sanctioned a penalty. Mehdi Taremi scored. And Leverkusen lost steam.
In minute 63 came another penalty, Kossounu’s foul against Galeno, this time sanctioned directly by Kovacs, and again Mehdi Taremi did not fail.
At the end of the match the stat sheet showed Bayer Leverkusen 66 per cent ball possession and 17 shots on goal against Porto’s five. The only statistic that Porto won, aside from goals, were duels for split balls.