Porto beat Bayern Munich 3-1 in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final at the Dragao on Wednesday night thanks to Ricardo Quaresma’s first-half brace.
The Portugal winger opened the scoring with a third-minute penalty, before then netting his 50th Porto goal just seven minutes later.
Bayern did pull a goal back thanks to Thiago Alcantara’s strike after 28 minutes, but frontman Jackson Martinez ensured Porto recorded their first-ever home win against the Bavarians by then slotting home 20 minutes after half-time.
The home side made a dream start to proceedings when being awarded a penalty after just 90 seconds when Bayern midfielder Xabi Alonso was caught in possession just outside his penalty area by Martinez.
The ever-alert Colombia international then bore down on Manuel Neuer, before rounding the goalkeeper, only to be upended by the shot-stopper just before he was able to put the ball in the back of the net.
Referee Carlos Velasco Carballo wasted no time in pointing to the spot, although Neuer was lucky to escape with only a booking, before Quaresma kept his cool to send the Bayern No. 1 then wrong way from the spot.
However, if Bayern head coach Pep Guardiola thought that piece of defending was bad, then he would have been dismayed to see his team make an even worse error after 10 minutes when centre-back Dante was also robbed of the ball in a dangerous position by that man Quaresma.
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