PORTO, PORTUGAL (AFP) – Atletico Madrid grabbed a spot within the final 16 of the Champions League as Antoine Griezmann scored one objective and had a key position within the two others because the Spanish facet beat Porto 3-1.
The win in northern Porto coupled with AC Milan’s 2-1 defeat to a second-string Liverpool facet on the San Siro was sufficient to ship Diego Simeone’s facet by way of because the second-placed workforce in Group B regardless of beginning the day backside.
Yannick Carrasco sophisticated Atletico’s process by getting despatched off with 20 minutes to go for grappling Otavio to the bottom in a touchline melee.
Three minutes later, the numbers had been evened up as Porto had Wendell red-carded after French referee Clement Turpin adjudged he had struck an Atletico participant.
Porto had two golden possibilities to attain, however Mehdi Taremi wasted each. First he was denied by a superb one-handed save by Jan Oblak within the first half after which he side-footed over the bar within the second from place.
After a largely sterile first half, all of the objectives got here in a frenetic second interval.
Towards the run of play, Atletico went forward on 56 minutes when Griezmann was left unmarked by Otavio and nonchalantly tapped in on the again publish from an in-swinging nook.
Ater the bad-tempered interval that produced two pink playing cards, Griezmann created the second objective by drawing two Porto defenders on the touchline earlier than brilliantly slipping the ball to the charging Angel Correa who stored his head to slip a shot previous ‘keeper Diogo Costa.
Griezmann was concerned once more as Porto, with gamers dedicated in assault, had been caught out and the French striker scuffed his shot however Rodrigo De Paul made no mistake two minutes into stoppage time.
Sergio Oliveira scored from the penalty spot for Porto within the sixth minute of damage time however the lengthy faces on the Portuguese facet’s bench instructed the story of the match.
