00:00Ten points ahead of Benfica in league football, but that can all be forgotten for tonight because this is knockout stuff and we are underway at Estadio do Dragao.
00:13Up into the box already, Porto launch it long right from the start.
00:19You might well have noticed this already, that Braga have scored in stoppage time in their game against Fafi, but they are knocked out.
00:30Defeated by two goals to one, Fafi through along with Torriensi to the semi-finals and either Porto or Benfica will join them there tonight.
00:43The referee kept his eyes on things and Fabio Verissimo is okay to restart the play. Porto down to ten men for now.
00:52There was a chance maybe to let that one roll through. Benfica had the man open on the left-hand side, it will come to Cabral in the end.
01:00Goes for the cross, quickly blocks, half-hearted appeals for a penalty. Benfica can continue all the way into the area.
01:06Morshlas, they've done this well if they can get the shot in, but it's lifted up and over.
01:14It goes the way of Benfica.
01:15Lopez Cabral getting it started. There was the appeal for the handball. It took the deflection at such close range that Porto cannot seriously have expected that to be penalised.
01:29And now they take the lead from the next corner.
01:42But Jan Bednarek, it's a bullet header from the centre-back and Porto lead already.
01:50More problems for Mourinho.
01:5515 minutes on the clock and Jan Bednarek heads in.
01:59Well, the two preceding Porto corners produced opportunities. Nothing as clear-cut as this one.
02:11It's Leandro Barrero who's beaten.
02:19His physical strength.
02:20Well-timed run. Good movement from Bednarek.
02:24He can't criticise that at all.
02:26But he's got the better of Barrero.
02:30Got himself into a great position.
02:35Barrero trying to do the defensive duties.
02:39But Bednarek had the advantage head-to-head.
02:42102 victories for Porto.
02:4493 for Benfica.
02:47And Porto are on the break again.
02:49Into the box again.
02:50Keeper has to get low to make the save.
02:51And it's a double stop.
02:52Maybe a triple.
02:53The third one's wide from Marcin Fernandes.
02:57But make no mistake about it.
02:59That was a big, big double chance.
03:01The first save was one you'd expect the keeper to make.
03:05The secondary effort on the follow-up from Victor Froholt.
03:08That could have been much more dangerous.
03:14You'd expect the first save from Trubin to be made.
03:17To get themselves established in this contest right now.
03:23Chance maybe to play the pass on the overlap.
03:27Prestiani dispossessed.
03:29But Mfika keep going.
03:31Decent shots.
03:32Up and over the right angle it goes from the boot of Amadevic.
03:36The cross a moment ago was over-hit.
03:38And the shot ultimately suffered the same fate.
03:41But the margin was much, much smaller that time.
03:46First little warning.
03:47All incidents earlier on.
03:49A Mfika cross blocked by Rosario onto the hand.
03:52But it was deflected onto the arm.
03:55No real chance of a penalty.
03:57But Mfika will want to use this set piece.
03:59Delivery headed up.
04:01But not away.
04:01Second header takes it out to the flank.
04:05Where Mfika will win it back.
04:07Roszlis can keep it in play.
04:12It's launched long.
04:13Costa's coming to get it.
04:14But he's let it go.
04:16That was a little fortunate for Diogo Costa.
04:19But you could pretty much already tell from the reaction of Mourinho, who's not best pleased with the decision.
04:27Nice ball around the corner.
04:28Vega could be in here.
04:30Vega turning.
04:31Went for the near post.
04:33Just got it wrong.
04:36Did so much right.
04:38Kivijor got it started.
04:39The pass around the corner really opened things up well for Gabri Vega.
04:44Good footwork in the middle.
04:46It's comfortably picked off by the Porto defence.
04:49This one's looped back over to the left-hand side.
04:52That was an unpredictable pass.
04:54It worked well for Mfika.
04:56What can they create from it?
04:58Presiani.
04:59Might go for goal himself now.
05:00Presiani.
05:01Good footwork in the middle.
05:03And now it comes loose.
05:04Costa has to make the save with his feet.
05:06And he's out there to punch it away too.
05:08Ushlas.
05:09Still alive for Dedic.
05:10Blasted over with Mfika's biggest and best chance of the first half.
05:17Mourinho sitting back down in the dugout.
05:20And he will feel that Mfika should be level.
05:25Look at the space that Dedic found him.
05:27Keep the shot down.
05:30And that will spell the end.
05:32Of an action-packed first half from Estadio do Dragão.
05:37I couldn't say an action-packed first 45 minutes because we went much longer than that.
05:42But it's FC Porto who have the lead.
05:44Jan Bednarek's header after a Gabriel Vega corner.
05:47That is the difference between the two teams right now.
05:49So Porto kicked off in the first half.
06:03It's Benfica's turn to get the ball rolling for the second half.
06:06And they've got 45 minutes, presumably, plus another decent chunk of stoppage time to turn this around and get themselves through to the Portuguese Cup semi-finals.
06:18Torriensi through to the semis.
06:23Fafi now through to the semis.
06:27The Portuguese Cup is one of those domestic cup competitions.
06:30When you look across Europe, there are some older and perhaps more prestigious than in Portugal.
06:39The drama so often delivers.
06:41You always see the outsiders believing in their chances of taking out Liga Portugal's sides.
06:50And it happens year in, year out.
06:53It's happened again tonight.
06:55It's happened in the quarter-finals as well.
06:57It is the kind of competition that every once in a while you get a side from the lower leagues that maybe goes all the way to the final.
07:09Arvis a few years ago.
07:13Barriero sends it out right.
07:17Cristiani.
07:19Shot on target.
07:20It's patted down by Diogo Costa.
07:23There's a flash of Pavlidis in front of goal.
07:28Didn't get many chances in the first half to get on to the ball in the penalty area at all.
07:34Jose Mourinho will be very much hoping that he's okay to carry on.
07:43Barriero moves into the penalty area.
07:46Tomas Sarraujo also up there.
07:49Freaking whipped in towards the back post.
07:51And Costa had to tip it away.
07:53The portal keeper scrambling back towards his far post.
07:57It wasn't quite drifting in.
08:00Portal will take over.
08:03There's room to run down the left-hand side here.
08:06Four forward for Portal.
08:07More in support now.
08:09A little hesitant to commit too many forwards.
08:12Moura tried the back heel in the box.
08:14Might have been dragged there as well, Moura.
08:16Now there's the double challenge.
08:23We're almost in stoppage time.
08:26Tomas Sarraujo.
08:28Rochnes sends it right.
08:30Gets it back in the middle.
08:31Is there one more chance left for Bofica?
08:37Good low ball across the middle.
08:39There was the big chance.
08:41And it's cleared by Portal inside the six-yard box.
08:45Was that the moment that Portal secured their place in the semi-final?
08:49Well, six minutes added on.
08:52There's still time for drama at the Dragao.
08:56Gomez.
09:00Back we go with Alberto Costa.
09:02All the way back.
09:06Trubin in the box.
09:09Sudekov to take.
09:11Bofica corner.
09:12In it comes.
09:14And Trubin was there.
09:19Bofica think the last touch came off the head of the defender.
09:22And indeed, Rosario surely was the one to send it.
09:26The man that Portal complained about before the game.
09:31Blows the whistle to send them through to the Portuguese Cup semi-finals.
09:35He reaches for the pocket again as Leandro Barrero reacts angrily
09:40to the whistle being blown right on six added minutes.
09:44Maybe an extra minute should have been given.
09:46Maybe Bofica should have had the corner as well just a moment ago.
09:50But it's all ifs and buts for Bofica.
09:52And it's Francesco Farioli and Porto who move on to the Portuguese Cup semis.
09:57The record champions beaten by the team second in the all-time standings.
10:03And the 20-time Portuguese Cup winners are the team to move on.
10:07They join Fafi, the underdogs.
10:09They join Togayensi.
10:11The semi-final line-up will not be completed for a while yet.
10:16We may well see Sporting Club joining them in the semis.
10:20But Porto can enjoy this one.
10:21And they've come out on top of a fiery Classico.
10:25The 15th minute header from Jan Bedrech has made the difference.
10:30And it's Porto who take the prize.
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