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.
This is the EIGHT article on last night’s ladies game if anyone bothered to watch it..Zero articles on the champions league final tonight. That’s the craic on this app these days..And we pay for this!!