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3¹ Uncertainty in the FC Porto defence enabled AMAURI to blast an effort just beyond the near post. 9¹ A twenty yard drive from AMAURI caused the 'keeper no problem. 14¹ GOAL!! A free-kick was pushed away by the 'keeper, THIAGO HELENO was first to the loose ball and chipped the ball to FALCAO to flick home. (1-0 FC Porto) 14¹ NECID beat BENAYOUN and hit the ball to AMAURI who fired his shot wide. 17¹ BALZARETTI fluffed a simple chance. 21¹ A penalty box scramble resulted in AMAURI driving a low shot over. 33¹ GOAL!! A BALZARETTI run down the right resulted in a lovely cross for HERNÁNDEZ to crack in. (1-1) 37¹ A corner bobbled toward BABEL who headed an effort inches over. 40¹ A tame shot from BABEL rolled agonisingly wide. 42¹ A free-kick from BABEL raced wide. 2² The Palermo 'keeper managed to claw away an amazing shot. 3² BENAYOUN flicked an easy chance past the lefthand post. 14² BRUNO ALVES drove a left foot shot just beyond the near post from twenty-five yards out. 16² GOAL!! A long ball from BENAYOUN down the middle fell to the lurking BRUNO ALVES who blasted a right foot shot into the net. (2-1 FC Porto) 17² HERNÁNDEZ made space on the left and dragged the ball to AMAURI who rasped the ball over. 21² CASSANI beat two FC Porto players and stroked a great chance inches over. 25² An outswinging corner was turned into the arms of HÉLTON by BALZARETTI. 30² AMAURI played the ball to BERTOLO who headed it over. 32² A left foot shot from LIVERANI was tipped over by the FC Porto 'keeper. 34² A cross from BENAYOUN left FALCAO in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot. 41² A good effort from BERTOLO scraped the top of the crossbar. 43² AMAURI ran onto a great ball from BERTOLO but dragged his shot wide of the lefthand post.

Palermo   League position: 17 Home league form: WXOL Overall league form: WWLLXWOX Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Salvatore SIRIGU 6  1 6  HÉLTON da Silva(c) Mattia CASSANI 7  2 6½ BRUNO Eduardo ALVES Federico BALZARETTI 7½ 3 7  Wayne BRIDGE (c)Fabio LIVERANI 8½ 4 7  Didier ZOKORA Cesare BOVO 6½ 5 7  Andrea CODA Simon KJÆR 6½ 6 7  THIAGO HELENO Henrique Milos KRASIC 7  7 6½ Fernando BELLUSCHI Nicolás BERTOLO 6½ 8 6½ Ryan BABEL (p)AMAURI Carvalho 7  9 7  Radamel FALCAO(p) (f)Tomás NECID 6½ 10 5½ Yossi BENAYOUN(f) Abel HERNÁNDEZ 6  11 5½ Simone PEPE Manager Sanchez WATT    12    Ricardo DIAS Francesco BENUSSI    13    VOLKAN Demirel David MEYLER 6  14 6  FERNANDO Francisco Igor BUDAN    15    Cristian RODRÍGUEZ Matt RITCHIE    16

FC Porto   League position: 14 Away league form: XWLX Overall league form: WXWWWWLX Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Palermo 1 FC Porto 2 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 38,963, Stadium: Renzo Barbera, Referee: Hellmut Krug 8) Hernández 33¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Falcao 14¹, Bruno Alves 16² NecidóMeyler 11² Bruno AlvesóFernando 34²         4 1 6 14 4 3 5 4 10 11 15 15 4 2 51% 49% ¶ Man of the match: Fabio Liverani ¶