Nottingham Forest v Porto: Europa League quarter-final, second leg - live
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature90 min +5: Porto half-clear the corner, but then Dominguez buys a cheap free kick off Froholdt, who clumsily runs into him from behind, and Forest are so close now. This is surely over!Share90 min +4: The Porto keeper Diogo Costa right on his opposite number Ortega. But Aina heads clear and Forest counter! Igor Jesus picks up possession to the right of the Porto D and shoots. A deflection loops the ball over the stranded Diogo Costa … but off the top of the bar! Corner.Share90 min +3: Kiwior twists and turns, 30 yards out. He shoots. His low drive is deflected wide left and out for a corner. Up comes the keeper!Share90 min +2: William Gomes takes on Williams down the right … but the dogged Forest full-back sticks to his guns and wins a goal kick. He earns a Nico chant from his fans. Forest edge ever closer.Share90 min +1: Thiago Silva goes up for a high ball and lands flat on his back. That’ll take the wind out of those 41-year-old lungs. What a warrior he has been, and indeed still is.Share90 min: There will be five additional minutes. Five minutes between Forest and their first European semi-final since 1984ShareUpdated at 16.52 EDT89 min: … but now Bakwa does really well to buy a cheap foul from William Gomes, putting a stop to a brief period of Porto pressure. Every little counts now.Share88 min: A long ball on the loose down the Forest left. Bakwa is strangely reluctant to hare after it. Had he set off from the get-go, he’d have surely beaten Kiwior to it. But the defender gets across and draws a foul from the late arrival.Share86 min: The City Ground has been quiet and tense for the last few minutes. Now it erupts into sound, as the home fans look to heave their heroes over the line. Aston Villa await in the semi-finals.Share84 min: Gibbs-White gifts to the ball to Varela, who from the left-hand edge of the Forest D, whip-curls a glorious screeching, rising, dipping shot over Ortega and towards the top right. Flush off the crossbar and away! Porto bothering the woodwork again! Then Forest counter, and Dominguez fizzes a low shot inches wide of the bottom left. Porto have been magnificent in this second half.Share83 min: … so having built the situation up thus, Bakwa’s corner fails to beat the first man.Share82 min: Forest with some patient possession in the Porto half. Williams probing down the left. Gibbs-White then earning a corner from the other flank. That’s great game management, and now a chance to put a ball into the mixer.Share80 min: Fofana jinks his way into the Forest box down the left, dropping a shoulder to make space past Milenković. He lashes a rising shot across Ortega and inches wide of the top-right corner. Fofana, sensing an equaliser could be on the cards now, gesticulates the come-on to the Porto fans. They respond. This is getting super-tense for Forest now.Share78 min: Williams rolls a pass down the left for Gibbs-White, who beats Diogo Costa to the ball just inside the Porto box. But the keeper does enough to stop Gibbs-White slotting from a tight angle, and eventually the flag goes up for offside anyway.Share76 min: Bakwa bursts into a little pocket of space down the left. He slips infield for Igor Jesus, who aims towards the bottom right, only for Diogo Costa to stick out a strong arm to block. Better from Forest, though, and that’s got the crowd going again.Share74 min: That’s three big injuries Forest have picked up tonight: Wood earlier, Murillo and Hudson-Odoi now. Important players all, as the relegation-threatened team pursue their dreams at the business end of the season. A palpable frisson of concern descends on the City Ground as a result.Share72 min: Bakwa and Morato come on for Murillo and Hudson-Odoi, both stricken, the latter also quite emotional.Share71 min: Hudson-Odoi and Murillo are both limping heavily. Porto probe, the ten sensing blood against nine. Williams eventually puts the ball out so a couple of swaps can be made.Share69 min: Murillo makes way … or does he?! He limps off … then waits to come back on! Hudson-Odoi isn’t moving freely either. Forest taking some risks with the rest of this game, and indeed the season, Burnley coming to town at the weekend.Share67 min: Murillo is really struggling. He limps around for a bit. Then goes down. On comes the physio. Hudson-Odoi is performing a few stretches while grimacing as well. Concerning moments for Forest.Share66 min: Hudson-Odoi aims a curler towards the top right. High. Wide. That’s Forest’s 16th attempt on goal tonight, though they’ve only managed four on target.Share65 min: Milenković comes on for Ndoye, while Porto replace Moffi with Gül. A slightly strange sub by Forest, given Murillo is limping a bit at the moment. But they’ve gone to three at the back for now.Share64 min: Sangare dribbles down the middle. Nobody challenges him, so he keeps going. And going. Then he rides a couple of half-hearted tackles, before finally coming to a halt against Thiago Silva. Porto a bit lax there, and perhaps overly dependant on their 41-year-old Brazilian.Share62 min: Williams shoots. Thiago Silva throws the old bones in the way to block. Forest come again, Dominguez flicking cutely down the inside-left to nearly release Gibbs-White … but Diogo Costa comes out to close the angle, and panic Gibbs-White into miscontrolling out for a goal kick. It’s good end-to-end fun, this.Share60 min: That episode has shaken the home support a little bit. A shock to realise how thin the margins are against ten men. The Porto fans still very loud. “That’s a great tale from Shrewsbury, thanks Dave!” replies Justin Kavanagh. “As for tonight’s game, I suppose if Mr Bednarek wanted to make a few quid to pay off his forthcoming indiscipline fine, he could volunteer to stand guard for any second-half river balls.”Share58 min: … nothing. But Forest can be thankful to still be in the lead. William Gomes absolutely thrashed that volley off the crossbar!Share57 min: A quick throw by Porto down the left. Fofana chases after it and curls long. William Gomes meets it with a high kick at the far post. His effort beats Ortega, but batters off the underside of the bar, down, out and away! Then Forest immediately go up the other end, Gibbs-White’s shot deflected wide left. And from that corner …Share56 min: The Porto fans are giving it plenty. Such a lovely atmosphere at the City Ground, as the home fans generate a response.Share54 min: Hudson-Odoi whistles down the left wing and crosses for Gibbs-White, who wins a header but puts it over the bar, and fouls Moura while he does so. “Like Nottingham, the city of Porto also sits by a storied river, although the Estádio do Dragão isn’t within kicking distance of the Douro,” writes Peter Oh. “It would require a foot like a nuclear traction engine to launch a ball into the water. Ballon Douro?”Share52 min: One of the Porto backroom staff is shown yellow for coming to the touchline and telling it as he sees it. Meanwhile on the subject of balls in the river, as touched upon during the break by Justin Kavanagh, here’s Dave Manby: “Shrewsbury Town in its old ground, the Gay Meadow, had Fred Davies who got a free ticket to fish balls out of the Severn in his coracle. When a ball went over the stand you would see a door open in the stand and he’d set off for the ball. His old coracle is on display at the new ground.”Share51 min: Aina advances down the right and cuts back for Igor Jesus, who rather scuffs his first-time shot straight at Diogo Costa, who parries. Incidentally, during the break, Tony Woodcock, who won the league, two League Cups and the 1979 European Cup with Forest, was awarded a second European Cup medal for his early work in the 1980 campaign, before he’d left for Cologne. A lovely moment for the Forest legend.Share49 min: Williams dances his way into the Porto box down the left, but his shot is blocked. Both teams appear to have been switched to Carpe Diem Mode.Share47 min: Porto are on the front foot immediately, and Dominguez clips William Gomes on the edge of the Forest D. A free kick. Gomes takes it himself, and blooters straight into the wall. A statement of intent by Porto, who have clearly come out not intending to die wondering.SharePorto get the second half underway … and they’ve made four changes. Jakub Kiwior, Victor Froholdt, Alan Varela and Francisco Moura come on for Gabriel Veiga, Zaidu, Borja Sainz and Alberto Costa. Meanwhile one change for Forest, who replace Omari Hutchinson with Callum Hudson-Odoi.ShareHalf-time postbag. “For a neutral like me, this is the Clough v Mourinho derby, right? Forest will forever be in the shadow of Ol’ Big ‘Ed, likewise Porto and the Special One. Some teams just can’t escape their past, can they? Yeah, I’m looking at you, Arsenal and Dundee Manchester United” – Simon McMahon“You’d have to think Morgan Gibbs-White is feeling cautiously positive on his decision not to join Spurs this season” – Hugh Collins“Nice shot of the City Ground and the River Trent! A hundred years ago when I played Sunday league in the local park, we’d give a local one pound (punt) to fish out what he called ‘river balls’. Do Forest (or Fulham) have such an arrangement, I wonder?” – Justin KavanaghShareHALF TIME: Nottingham Forest 1-0 Porto (agg 2-1)It’s all gone Forest’s way. But the ten men of Porto will be happy to have limited the damage, and as the clock ticks on through the second half, you never know. All very much still in the balance.Share45 min +5: Gabriel Veiga sends the free kick in flat and hard, at washing-line height. Alberto Costa rises at the near post and flicks a header on, but the ball sails well wide left. The first sharp intake of breath from the Forest support, right on the stroke of half time. A little glimmer of promise at last for ten-man Porto.Share45 min +4: Ndoye clumsily clips Gabriel Veiga, who was going nowhere down the right. A chance for Porto to commit everyone upfield at the free kick. They load the Forest box.Share45 min +2: Ndoye sends a delicious outside-of-boot cross in from a tight position on the left. Dominguez, arriving late, meets it six yards out, but eyebrow-flicks a header across goal and wide right. The only thing that ends up in the net is Dominguez himself. Big chance.Share45 min: There will be five additional first-half minutes, the VAR check, sending off, injury to Wood, all that.Share44 min: The Porto bench empties as Aina hurdles William Gomes, studiously avoiding making contact with foot on head. But Veiga thinks something saucy has gone on, and comes across to shove Aina angrily. Porto want the numbers levelling up, but come off it and come on. The referee calms everything down quickly enough.Share43 min: Hutchinson crosses from the right. Another easy claim for Diogo Costa. Then a cutback that is easily picked off. Hutchinson’s radar suddenly on the blink, after a promising start to the match. His boss Vítor Pereira, frustrated, comes to the touchline and issues the player some beneficial advice in the strident style.Share41 min: Fofana is forced to change into a new shirt, the last one having been ripped to bits by Ndoye’s grasping hand. Not 100 percent sure how Ndoye wasn’t booked for that; it was as obvious as a tug-back gets.Share40 min: Hutchinson, on the right-hand corner of the Porto box, goes for a curler towards the top left. Not enough whip, not enough pace. Easy for Diogo Costa. Then a miserable 60 seconds for the Forest player ends with a booking for a cynical hug on Zaidu.Share39 min: Forest push Porto back and probe this way and that. No way through. The hosts well on top, though.Share37 min: Another Forest corner leads to some head tennis in the Porto box. Jair Cunha brings some order to events, cutting the ball back for the in-rushing Murillo, who pearls a first-time drive from the edge of the box inches wide right. Not sure Diogo Costa was getting to that had it been on target. It would have been a cute assist and finish.Share36 min: Williams is in the process of kicking clear when Alberto Costa arrives and lashes at his ankle. Luckily Williams hadn’t planted his foot, or that could have been nasty. It’s a booking, though, and Alberto Costa will miss Porto’s next European match.Share
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