Juventus coach: We gave the win to Porto ... Ronaldo is angry at the referee
Porto surprised Juventus with a precious 2-1 victory the day before yesterday at the "Dragao" stadium in Porto in the first leg of the final eight-round of the Champions League football competition.
Iranian goals from Porto, Mahdi Tarmi (2) and Mali Moussa Marega (46), scored, while Federico Chiesa narrowed the difference for Juventus (82).
The two teams will meet back in Turin on the ninth of next March.
Juventus coach Andrea Pirlo spoke at the press conference with sorrow and said: We dedicate the victory to Porto because of the early and surprise goal.
He stressed that compensation is possible in the second leg, while he said that the match witnessed strange events, alluding to the mistakes made by the whistle, which cost his team a lot.
On the other hand, Cristiano Ronaldo poured out his anger on refereeing, accusing him of denying his team a late penalty kick that would have gifted his team a draw in a deadly time.
Juventus appeared greatly confused and ineffective in creating real opportunities.
Juve was counting on the five-time Ballon d'Or holder and the historic scorer in the Champions League (134), who arrived from Real Madrid in 2018, to lead him to the upcoming title, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
This is the first time that Ronaldo has faced a team from Portugal since 2016, when Real Madrid beat Sporting 2-1 back and forth in the group stage of the Champions League.
The "Bianconeri" played without the services of his veteran center-back, Leonardo Bonucci, and Argentine striker Paulo Dybala, who is still recovering from an injury he suffered in January, despite his return to training, according to coach Andrea Pirlo, in addition to the absence of Colombian Juan Cuadrado.
Porto was early to score, specifically in the second minute, after a fatal mistake by Uruguayan Rodrigo Bentancur, who returned the ball short to his Polish goalkeeper Vojciech Chishni, who tried to disperse it, so it hit Tarmi's foot and continued its way into the goal (2).
Similar to the first half, Porto knocked Juventus with an early goal in the second half, when Marega received a cross into the area, and he hit it strongly to the right of goalkeeper Chicheni (46).
The Italian team doubled its attempts in the last half hour of the match, and after several attempts that did not pose a great danger to Porto, managed to equalize through Chiesa, who received a pass from Rabio and put Jamila in the net (82).
And there was a real chance to tie the Spaniard Alvaro Morata two minutes later, after being alone with the goal, but he hit the ball with goalkeeper Marchesen.
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