The win in northern Porto coupled with AC Milan's 2-1 defeat to a second-string Liverpool side at the San Siro become enough to ship Diego Simeone's facet thru as the second one-positioned crew in Group B in spite of starting the day bottom. Yannick Carrasco complex Atletico's undertaking through getting despatched off with 20 minutes to head for grappling Otavio to the floor in a touchline melee.
Three mins later, the numbers were evened up as Porto had Wendell purple-carded after French referee Clement Turpin adjudged he had struck an Atletico player. Porto had golden chances to attain, but Mehdi Taremi wasted each. First he become denied by way of a extremely good one-passed store by means of Jan Oblak in the first 1/2 after which he side-footed over the bar inside the second from an awesome role.
After a in large part sterile first 1/2, all of the desires got here in a frenetic second period. Against the run of play, Atletico went beforehand on fifty six mins while Griezmann changed into left unmarked by Otavio and nonchalantly tapped in at the returned post from an in-swinging nook.
Ater the bad-tempered duration that produced two pink playing cards, Griezmann created the second goal by way of drawing Porto defenders on the touchline before brilliantly slipping the ball to the charging Angel Correa who stored his head to slide a shot beyond 'keeper Diogo Costa. Griezmann turned into involved again as Porto, with gamers committed in attack, have been caught out and the French striker scuffed his shot however Rodrigo De Paul made no mistake two mins into stoppage time.
Sergio Oliveira scored from the penalty spot for Porto inside the sixth minute of damage time but the long faces on the Portuguese aspect's bench told the story of the fit.
