Betis competed well against Porto despite falling in the penalty shootout. Rubi’s team offered good sensations in different phases of the game, although the Catalan coach will still have to polish his idea and, above all, that his pupils, very plugged in, forget certain sins due to the style of the last two bells.
Rubi opted from the start for the 4-3-3 (when it came to defending it was a 4-5-1), with William Carvalho embedding himself between the central defenders to get the ball. Meanwhile, Porto started 4-4-2, trying to take the initiative, but there was no clear dominator in the first few minutes. Some approach, but with hardly any danger from the Blue and Whites, while Betis, on their first arrival, managed to open the scoring. Tello’s internship on the right, which goes from his pair, and a magnificent center –something that almost never happened last season in Quique Setien’s game idea– that Juanmi, with a good header, took care of finish it off.
From there, interesting things were seen from the Verdiblancos, such as long game changes so that the full-backs could take advantage of it. Thus, in the 21st minute, a great pass from Carvalho was close to being taken advantage of by Emerson in a good offensive action. Shortly after, on another through ball from Tello, Canales had the second for the Verdiblancos after half an hour.
Just then, Betis modified the drawing –change to 4-4-2– and some errors appeared to be polished from last year, such as the losses due to touching the ball first in a rush, which Porto took advantage of to generate danger with the spaces behind Carvalho and Camarasa – he alternated with Canales – thanks to the quality of the young Fabio Silva, one of the pearls of a Portuguese squad that managed to tie in the 31st minute.
Ze Luis, the good former Spartak Moscow striker and Porto’s signing this year, received against Betica’s passivity and from the edge of the area he took a left footed shot against which Joel could do nothing. Immediately after, the Portuguese team almost made the second in a shot by Nakajima to the post. Suffering for a Betis that overcame something in the final minutes of the first half.
Around the corner, and after changing the eleven to the full, Porto took control of the ball, bottling up a Betis that suffered a lot to get out of the suffocating pressure to which its rival subjected it. However, that dominance did not translate into clear arrivals, except for two long shots, one by Luis Diaz and the other by Soares, which forced Joel to show off. In the verdiblancos, except for an isolated action by Calderón and a weak shot by Tello with everything in favor, very little baggage, until Rubi moved the bench and with the entry of Joaquin everything changed in a Betis that went from less to more in the second part.
The entry of the player from Porto, who connected very well with Barragan, the mobility of Boudebouz and Raul, gave Rubi’s team another air, which had in Abreu’s boots, in the 86th minute, a clear opportunity to have sentenced a Porto very revolutionized, with excessive harshness in some casts. However, the score did not move and everything was decided from penalties. There I ended up winning Porto against a Betis that competed well, that little by little offers the idea that Rubi wants and that tries to get rid of the ballast of the game idea of ​​the last two campaigns.

Port: Vana Alves; Tomas Esteves, Pepe, Diego Leite, Manafa; Loum, Romario Bara, Sergio Oliveira; Nakajima, Ze Luis, and Fabio Silva. Also played: Danilo, Diogo Costa, Alex Telles, Marcano, Osorio, Saravia, Bruno Costa, Diogo Quiros, Soares, Luis Diaz, Corona, Galeno and Aboubakar.

Betis : Joel Robles; Emerson, Bartra, Sidnei, Calderon; William Carvalho, Camarasa, Channels; Juanmi, Tello and Loren. Also played: Edgar, Javi Garcia, Boudebouz, Joaquin, Barragan, Carlos Marin, Abreu, Raul and Narvaez.

Goals : 0-1 (13′) Juanmi. 1-1 (30′) Ze Luis.

Penalties: 0-1: Joaquin (Goal). 1-1: Alex Telles (Goal). 1-2: Boudebouz (Goal). 2-2: Soares (Goal). 2-3: Abreu (Goal). 3-3: Marcano (Goal). 3-3: Bartra (Failure). 4-3: Bruno Costa (Goal). 4-4: Barragan (Goal). 5-4: Danilo (Goal).

Referee: Antonio Nobre (Portugal). I admonish Soares.

Incidents: Some 5,000 spectators at the Portimao Stadium.

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