Very embracing to see porto play the way they have been the past few game starting to get a little aggravated at the coach doing all the wrong changes at all the wrong times. I still like to see the red shown to fucile cause it looked a little sketchy. I don't like to see mr webb in the premier league and not sure but I think he was a little influential in the game especially with the foul on kleber, where he was injured on a foul after landing on his shoulder. This loss makes the group stage ten times more difficult then what it should be. And I hope porto starts to play as porto again or some changes have to be made
I didn't say anything about that I know zenit played good I never sayed they didn't. I just sayed that porto can't play the way they did I know how my porto play and this is not it. If we have to switch coach we will its just a matter of whose better. Same thing with players And I did see the hand ball and mr webb was not wrong to give fucile the second yellow
Home game will be different no cold temperatures but last year porto was stronger with falcao but its okay we have hulk. Good game for the russians I guess but they got no chance to advance to the next stages...
Seriously they have a great chance to advance they just won and they are a strong team don't be so bias towards porto they are nasty but they didn't bring it and that's what happens
Look the whole group is in the open. Yeah they won but they gave just as much points as Porto and If porto win their next to games against apoel then things can completely change
Yeah I know Zenit.... s**t club with a bit of luck.... Give me a break, a ll of the sudden Porto looses one game in many hundreds and they are less than zenit.... Did you forget what title Porto won last year?
Well Katana has a point, but as a Porto Fan, I feel proud with the past but I am looking forward to the future, if we had problems with Zenith, what shall we do with Barca and Real, loose 10-0, well the hell not, and that manager should know it, as well as the players, I mean look at the defence how bad was it, did fucile really needed to touch the ball with his hand!
While I concede, Katana, Porto are huge and the better side, I agree with what Markodon is pointing out and what people pointed out last year for Shakhtar. People expected them to be terrible. Zenit, CSKA, and russian teams I don't think get near the respect they deserve, esp at home. Oddly, the stadium didn't look as full as I expected though, cause usually its so rowdy that its a terror to play there. I wish Alves wasn't ineligible so he could have battled some with Hulk, who does what he wants almost anywhere
Poor game from a team like Porto. No team is perfect but the manager made some stupid mistakes, in my opinion. First of all, just because your down to 10 men, doesn't mean you have to pull off one of your best forwards, in this case James Rodriguez. I know it would be cruel to substitute Varela who came in for Kléber in the first half, but out of him, James and Hulk.... Everyone knows who the weakest link is. His second mistake was not to bring another striker to the champions league. Walter hasn't proven much, but being Kléber the only striker eligible for the champions league (?!), well, it isn't a good idea. I knew it would tough for Porto, since Zenit has a really good team and a loss wouldn't be surprising. But with mistakes like these, combined with a great second half from the Russians, everything crumbled
Very true, the new manager is very stupid, he event spend a dime on improving defence, or bringing some good replacement for Falcao. Porto, with that performance, will not get anything this year, although I obviously wish the contrary but you cannot rely on this manager
It is a complete nonsense to compare zenit to Porto. Porto are a much bigger club with a better team. I don't believe that the fact of losing this game will take all the credits from porto. Sure zenit has done a good game but I think that if kleber didn't come out injured and fucile dindn't make that stupid mistake the result woudn't be the same. Also vitor pereira didn't make the right choices. Although I think porto will still win this group
James scored from offside, and Zenit had much more chances to score if they wanted. So no offence but its Porto mistake that they didn't take Zenit seriously!
Porto lost this game because of 4 key event: Kelber getting hurt, being reduced to 10 players and helton not completing the save in the first goal, Danny playing amazing. Only one of those things happened thanks to Zenits player showing that yeah zenit might have more chances but they had those chance not mostly from their own merit but based on Porto's mistakes. Wished Danny would play this good for Portugal he doesn't really do much when he plays for us