Roma 2-1 Porto: Champions League 16 last, first leg – as it happened | Soccer

Roma are holding on and will take a 2-1 lead over Portugal for the second leg. The evening ended on a note of slight disappointment for the Italians, who led 2-0 thanks to a double of Nicolo Zaniolo. Adrian Lopez 'goal on the outside means that Porto will have every chance on March 6th. Thank you for reading and sending an email. Goodbye.

90 min + 3: The camera chooses Francesco Totti in the stands. The Roma legend looks a little nervous.

88 min: El Shaarawy takes a reservation for a clumsy mistake on Militao.

87 min: Davide Santon replaces Nicolo Zaniolo, the hero of Roma's two goals.

84 min: Porto makes his last change, Otavio replaced by Hernani.

83 min: Steven Nzonzi replaces Lorenzo Pellegrini for Roma. Moments later, Herrera stands out with a brilliant 25-meter shot. Roma are rocking. Mirante was beaten.

Fazio and Manolas do not have to manage a long ball on the edge of the surface. Tiquinho knocked down the flag. The flag is lowered and Adrian Lopez manages the ball perfectly, throwing Mirante with his right foot! Porto is back! A VAR check confirms that the attacker was on his side.

Porto silences the Stadio Olimpico with what could prove to be a decisive center goal!

At the moment when Porto makes an offensive change, Roma strikes again! It is again Dzeko, which crosses the center and advances towards the zone before leaving to 25 meters. The ball pbades near Casillas and loots the right post, but Porto is out of luck. The rebound returns to Zaniolo, who easily puts the ball in the empty nets.

The young do it again!

74 min: Herrera is booked to have caught De Rossi with a daunting challenge.

72 min: Porto almost immediately fought back, but Adrian Lopez lost to a defender from Rome at close range!

It's a charming goal! The ball was hit in the center by El Shaarawy. Dzeko scores with his back to the goal, ignores a punch of Pepe (of course) and moves a pbad to the right for Zaniolo, who takes a touch before drilling Casillas in the far corner! What nerve of the age of 19.

The young man gives Rome the head of nothingness!

68 min: Brahimi has been replaced by Adrian Lopez. He seemed to twist his ankle after a foul by De Rossi, who wanted revenge after being hampered by a formidable Brahimi talent earlier in the half.

67 min: Brahimi went down again. Angry Roma from Conceicao continue to attack for a while. The spirits ignite again. Everyone calms down after a while.

66 min: Cristante emerges on the right and manages to bring the ball back to Pellegrini, who breaks Casillas' head.

65 min: Brahimi limps and struggles. His night may be over.

62 min: Pellegrini tests Casillas with firm driving from 25 meters. Casillas occupies them.

57 min: Porto wins a corner on the left, Brahimi the rogue. Such sends an outswinger and Danilo takes a wide look at the next post. It is the nearest Porto that has come.

51 min: Roma are trying to lobby and play with more energy. Let's see how long it lasts.

48 min: Roma's best hope might be to force Casillas into a mistake by using a simple tactic of putting a cross in the box. A bit of Porto's goalkeeper beat almost to a calamity, but Cristante can not take advantage of it.

Let's be charitable and call it a tight game.

45 min: Pellegrini remains down after a collision with Tiquinho. The game stops so that he can receive a treatment. He is fine.

42 min: El Shaarawy goes almost to the left. But he does not do it.

37 min: Fazio chooses Dzeko with a superb deep pbad. The attacker successfully shoots the ball, cuts Militao, moves into the box and tries to score the moment he shoots his right foot. But with only Casillas to beat, he hits a powerful shot against the right post and the ball bounces to safety! It was a beautiful game until the end.

35 min: Pellegrini sends another free kick, a corner this time, but Dzeko presents his head.

34 min: A free kick for Roma on the right. Pellegrini succeeds and Manolas, winner of last season against Barcelona, ​​fails to rise high enough in the center. The defender was not scarred.

32 min: Roma have not had a decent attack for the first 10 minutes. They look very one-dimensional.

30 minutes: Otavio sneaks into the right side and finds Fernando, who turns and heads straight for Mirante.

29 min: A slight disagreement in the center after Fernando has opposed El Shaarawy nibbling on his heels.

27 min: Kolarov centers from the left. Casillas recovers her in an unconvincing way. Moments later, Cristante sweeps Casillas for 18 meters.

25 min: Porto starts to dominate ball possession. The Roma seem to be short of ideas, even if Dzeko is likely to come up with something.

22 min: Porto will be delighted with the way they started. Apart from a few doubtful moments in the back, they mostly kept Roma at arm's length and seemed strong in the middle of the field. It would not be a surprise to see them win a goal either.

17 min: Porto attacks at the bottom left and raises the ball in the surface of the Roma. The defense is not great. A weak clearance lands at the feet of Otavio at the edge of the surface, but it is not baderted enough and luck disappears.

11 min: Porto makes a free-kick hash. Roma counter immediately. Dzeko runs to the left and forms a cross in the center. Casillas plunges again, but Brahimi does not receive the cry and intervenes to clear. For a moment, I thought it would be a personal goal, but Brahimi gets it cheaply.

10 minutes: Fernando scolds on the left and wins Florenzi's free kick. This is a decent chance to load the box for Porto.

7 min: El Shaarawy looks left again and combines with the overlap of Kolarov, which is always an option in attack. The left-back introduces a low ball into the penalty area and almost finds Dzeko, but Casillas claims the center.

4 min: Porto is trying to do like Manchester City at the back, but Felipe is doing all the bazaar. He loses to Pellegrini, then aggravates the error with a weak challenge that allows Roma to attack. El Shaarawy walks to the left, squirms inside and tries to set up Cristante, which is tackled just in time by Herrera. It was really a disaster for Porto.

3 min: A fast start, with a lot of intensity in the middle. Everything seems pretty even.

Peep! Roma, in his red kit, starts the game. They kick right-to-left in the first half. De Rossi immediately pulls the ball forward and, uh, tries a throw.

Before the kickoff, there will be a minute of silence in memory of Emiliano Sala. Halfway, respectful applause burst, which is nice.

The following players from Porto will miss the next match if they are booked: Eder Militão, Otávio and Pepe. Of course Pepe. As for the Roma, they are not worried.

The teams are in the tunnel and the Roma fans make an absurd noise at Stadio Olimpico. They know how to increase the volume a great night there. I was there when they beat Barcelona last season and my ears are only healed.

Roma: Mirante; Florenzi, Manolas, Fazio, Kolarov; Pellegrini, De Rossi, Cristante; Zaniolo, Dzeko, El Shaarawy. Subs: Olsen, Jesus, Marcano, Santon, Pastore, Kluivert, Nzonzi.

Port: Casillas; Militao, Felipe, Pepe, Such; Herrera, Danilo, Fernando; Otavio, Soares, Brahimi. Subs: Vana, M. Pereira, Costa, Hernani, Torres, Lopez, A Pereira.

Arbitrator: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Hello. The final stages of the Champions League: a fun place if you are not one of the big clubs. Shocks are rare in this competition and the unpredictability is limited. If you do not have hundreds of millions to spend each summer, you can probably forget to win. If you do not have elite players, the story suggests that you can not go so far.

But this is a knockout competition, so you never know, and these two teams will realize that they have a good chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals. Having finished second in their group, Roma must be relieved enough not to have landed one of your Barcelonas, Bayern Munich or PSGS. Having finished first, Porto must be delighted to have avoided your Liverpools, your Atletico Madrids, your Manchester United. Everything is to be done at Stadio Olimpico tonight!

And it's also very difficult to call. Trying to choose a favorite is not easy. Porto, leader of the Portuguese league with a point in advance and undefeated since October, will be happy to have the home match and Sergio Concecaio will be confident to have enough experience and firepower. to reach the last eight games. But while the Roma are experiencing a tough season, Eusebio Di Francesco's men are sixth in Serie A after a series of inconsistent results and lost 7-1 to Fiorentina in the Coppa Italia last month. The Italians eliminated Barcelona to reach the goal. Last four seasons and should represent a breakthrough in clbad for Porto, who dominated a group consisting of Galatasaray, Lokomotiv Moscow and Schalke. In conclusion: anything can happen. What is just like that should be.

Start: 20h GMT, 21h in Rome.