Porto advances in Portuguese Cup

Beneficiaries of a highly advantageous draw, Porto defeated third-division Cinfães 4-1 to advance to the quarter-finals of the Portuguese Cup / Taça de Portugal.

In front of their home fans, Cinfães put on a superb display and held Porto off the score-sheet until the seven minutes after the break with Ernesto Farías breaking the deadlock. However the story was not complete for Cinfães as with eighteen minutes remaining Sérgio Silva delivered the equalizer. In quick succession the Dragões grabbed the victory with strikes from Freddy Guarín with twelve and four minutes remaining, in addition to Candeias goal at the eighty second minute.

Porto: Nuno; Tengarrinha (Candeias 35′), Milan Stepanov, Rolando and Lino; Tomás Costa, Pelé and Freddy Guarín; Tarik Sektioui (Hulk 71′), Ernesto Farías (Rabiola 87′) and Mariano González

Cinfães: Miguel Matos; Nakata, Jonas, Kipulo and Luís; André Pinto (Serra 86′), Rogério and Rui Gonçalves; Mauro (Zé Pedro 85′), Sérgio Silva (Sidon 88′) and Miki

Category: Porto Team News

Tags: Cinfães, Porto Team News, Portuguese Cup, Taça de Portugal

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