A MAGNIFICENT FREE-KICK from on-loan midfielder Casemiro was the highlight as FC Porto comfortably got the better of FC Basel at the Estádio do Dragão.
With the tie delicately balanced at 1-1 following the first leg in Switzerland, it didn’t take for the hosts to get in front with Yacine Brahimi opening the scoring with a wonderful free-kick after 14 minutes.
Still, Basel remained in the game until shortly after the restart before Mexican midfielder Hector Herrera doubled Porto’s advantage and made it 3-1 on aggregate.
Nine minutes later, Porto were awarded a long-range set-piece and up stepped Casemiro, the Brazilian midfielder who joined on a season-long temporary deal from Real Madrid last July, to rifle to the net.
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Any hope of a remarkable late rally from the guests was completely extinguished when Vincent Aboubakar raced towards goal and unleashed a superb strike that nestled neatly in the top corner.
To compound matters, veteran defender Walter Samuel was sent-off after needlessly bringing down the Cameroon international in injury time and picking up a second yellow card for his troubles.
After such a tight first encounter, it was an unexpected canter for the Iberian giants who progress to the quarter-finals as dark horses.
