In the first leg, Porto was defeated by Arsenal, but after three goals behind, Porto also beat Arsenal in a mess with close and foul tactics.
The home game, home advantage, Porto is the close and physical confrontation tactics implemented to every minute of the game.
Arsenal in the Premier League are also used to opponents' pressing and fouls. Porto's pressing and fouls don't have a big impact on them. However, Porto has three backs today, and they can run very well. Once Arsenal reach Porto's 30 meter area, Porto's formation shrinks, and Arsenal's mistakes begin to increase.
Before the game, Porto is ready to let Hulk attack Clichy and use Hulk's strength to restrain Clichy's speed. But after the opening, Gao Xiaodong made Arsenal's back Alexander song get a yellow card. The players of Porto are very flexible and put the focus of attack in the middle.
In the sixth minute of the game, Fernando passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong's feet. Before Gao Xiaodong turned around, song stuck the ball. Centre back William Gallas immediately came up to grab the ball. Gao Xiaodong had to pass the ball to meileles.
Fernando passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong for the second time. Gao Xiaodong made a false run in the opposite direction, trying to cheat song, but he failed. Gao Xiaodong took the ball and forced to turn around, which was destroyed by song from the back.
The ball fell to Denilson's feet, Denilson quickly passed to Fabregas, Fabregas passed to Adebayor, Adebayor returned to Fabregas, Fabregas was tripped by Fernando in running.
The referee didn't pay attention and the ball was snatched by Meireles. Gao Xiaodong failed to receive the ball twice in a row. Meireles didn't continue to pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong, but directly passed it back to Lisandro.
Lisandro attacked from the side, but Denilson came back quickly. He and Sagna were very successful in defending and broke the ball out of the side.
Fu Xilai throws the ball to Gao Xiaodong, who is coming to meet him. Song defends him closely and pushes Gao Xiaodong gently to prevent him from turning around.
Gao Xiaodong had failed to break through song for two consecutive times before. He found that even if song carries a yellow card, he can't break through at will. The opponent's centre back William Gallas has rich experience and has a good grasp of the opportunity. If he wants to open the gap from song, he must think of some more ways.
Gao Xiaodong saw that song pushed himself with his hand, so he fell on the ground and raised his hand to signal that song had committed a foul.
When the referee saw that the ball was under Gao Xiaodong's body, he signaled song for a foul and let Gao Xiaodong serve.
Gao Xiaodong passes the ball back to centre back captain Alves and goes to the middle.
Porto is also a technical way, passing and catching the ball quickly. After three passes and two passes, the ball reached Gao Xiaodong's feet again. When song came to defend again, Gao Xiaodong and Gao Xiaodong just touched each other, and Gao Xiaodong suddenly fell to the ground again.
Special! How come it's down again! Song Hei's face is full of anger. He hasn't touched Gao Xiaodong yet.
Now Gao Xiaodong's catching position is within 30 meters. If a foul is judged, it will be a threatening free kick. Song quickly raised his hand to signal that he didn't foul. Gao Xiaodong is diving.
The fans in the stands didn't agree and booed all over the sky. They were all shouting for yellow cards.
Chief referee Wen Ke ran a little slower, did not see the details, saw Gao Xiaodong fall to the ground, and then heard the boos, he decisively awarded a free kick.
The winger also raised his hand to protest. Gao Xiaodong, a strong man who could not be pulled down, has become so weak now. The professor doesn't believe it.
Porto's commentator is very good at talking, "Gao Xiaodong, such a strong man, has fallen to the ground frequently. It seems that song's action is too big!"
The free kick is very important when the weak team plays against the strong team. When Gao Xiaodong starts the free kick, almost all the players who can fight for the header go to the forbidden area of Arsenal.
Arsenal's players are also on the defensive.
Gao Xiaodong looked at the distance, almost 278 meters away, but it was blocked by a human wall, so it was difficult to shoot. Arsenal's air defense ability was average. Gao Xiaodong kicked a curved ball into the penalty area to find captain Alves.
Arsenal's air defense ability is average, but that is in the Premier League, Porto want to rely on the header is not easy.
Gao Xiaodong's free kick was close to the goal, and was hit out of the penalty area by the fast attacking goalkeeper Almunia.
Lucio, sitting on the bench, sneered.
Argentina player Thomas, who is sitting beside Lucio, whispered to Lucio: "this level is also the core."
Luqiao sneered: "they are the favorite of coaches and presidents."
Thomas on his bench is not convinced, said: "this fight, want to win very difficult."
Lucio did not speak.
After the ball came out, it was snatched by fullback Fu Xilai. He passed it to Gao Xiaodong. In the confusion, Gao Xiaodong passed the ball to Hulk.
Hulk's dribbling through Clichy.
Clichy was very fast, but his strength was much worse than that of Hulk. Hulk held the ball by his arm and couldn't get close to him. He rushed to tackle the ball, then Hulk swung it through the penalty area. Facing the blocked centre back, Hulk passed the ball back to the front of the penalty area to look for meleres.Meleres is also a long shot master, he did not stop the ball, the ball is a fury.
Meireles was very low, the ball flew close to the grass to the goal, and the two Arsenal players didn't touch it.
Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia was quick to save the ball from the bottom line.
Before the game has been lukewarm, meleres suddenly a long-range shot, once the atmosphere to bring up, a exclamation in the stands, and then a applause.
As the new core, the corner is still played by Gao Xiaodong.
This time Gao Xiaodong made a front point and let Fu Xilai go to the back point to find the high full back sapluna.
But Arsenal guard against that, Clichy guard against sapluna and let the ball out of the sideline.
Arsenal launched a quick counterattack after sending out the ball. This time, Arsenal were very clever and didn't go in the middle. Fabregas split the side, Denilson crossed the penalty area, and little Warcraft Adebayor forced Rolando to swing his head to attack the goal, which could be higher than the beam.
The right to return to the foot of Porto again, Porto is still in the middle, the ball directly to Gao Xiaodong's feet, by Gao Xiaodong to find the direction of attack.
As Gao Xiaodong had won the free kick twice in a row before, song, who had a yellow card on his back, did not dare to stick Gao Xiaodong too tightly for fear that he would dive again.
Gao Xiaodong pits song twice in a row, but he doesn't want song to stick himself too tightly. Seeing that there is room for activity, Gao Xiaodong stops the ball to one side of his body and half turns around to shoot.
Song quickly extended his foot to intercept, but it was too late, and the ball flew past his feet.
The shot was sudden, and most of Gao Xiaodong's body was blocked by song. Goalkeeper Almunia didn't notice it for the first time. When he saw the ball, it was almost in the restricted area.