Manchester City 4-0 FC Porto – as it happened
A late refereeing howler, a late assistant refereeing howler, and a needless red card made Manchester City’s final scoreline flatter, but they never looked likely to go out against an insufficient Porto. AVB OUT! Image from Well Offside.
90 min + 4 min: The ref blows for full time, and Manchester City are through.
90 min + 2: Both teams happy to see this game out, it seems. Until Hulk holds the ball up, plays it Defour who gets a low shot on goal that Hart does excellently to save. Hulk then wins another corner with a long shot that’s deflected. He might not make the right decisions every time, but he hasn’t given up even now.
90 min: Hulk takes on four players down the left, and incredibly gets a shot on target that Hart has to concede a corner from in order to save. The corner – nothing. Four minutes of this left.
86 min: GOAL! Manchester City 4-0 Porto (Pizarro). A smart one-two with Dzeko and it’s now four. Technical problems mean I missed both of those. Good stuff.
83 min: GOAL! Manchester City 3-0 Porto (Silva). Pizarro cuts it back for Silva to score.
83 min: The clown is Pizzaro, by the way. Silva dances through a few challenges on the left, so they just whack his ankles and he goes down.