FC Porto beat Benfica 3-1 in the Primeira Liga at Estádio do Dragão, taking control after Clément Lenglet's red card and answering a short-lived equalizer with two quick goals.

Match Summary

The opening half hour brought cautions rather than goals. Gabri Veiga was booked early for Porto, and Clément Lenglet was shown a yellow for Benfica as both sides searched for a first opening.

Porto broke through before the interval. Gabri Veiga scored, Eduardo Gabriel Aquino Cossa providing the assist, to put the home side in front. Benfica's problems then deepened. Gianluca Prestianni was cautioned, and a minute later Lenglet was sent off. Porto went in a goal ahead and a player up.

Benfica still found an answer after the restart. Alexander Bah leveled, with Prestianni the provider this time. The reply did not last. Victor Froholdt put Porto back in front, André Silva the assist, and Hwang In-Beom added another on the hour, Silva involved again. The 3-1 scoreline held from there.

Late in the match the cards kept coming. Hwang In-Beom was booked, Alexander Bah followed in added time, and Oskar Pietuszewski and Tomás Araújo were also cautioned before the end.

Key Moments

Lenglet's red card, arriving so soon after Porto had taken the lead, left Benfica a man down for more than half the match. That numerical gap was the platform Porto used to absorb the equalizer and still come away with two further goals.

The equalizer was the visitors' best chance to reset the night. Porto's answer in the minutes that followed, rather than a long siege, decided the result while Benfica were still adjusting.

André Silva creating both of those second-half strikes gave Porto the margin they needed against ten men.

Match Statistics

Benfica held more of the ball, 55 percent to Porto's 45, but Porto produced the heavier shot count, 20 attempts to 11, and put seven on target against three. Corners were shared, three apiece. Disciplinary numbers matched the night: Porto finished with three yellow cards and no red, Benfica with four yellows and one sending-off.

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