Benni McCarthy scored a goal in each half Wednesday as FC Porto came from behind to beat visitor Manchester United 2-1 in the first leg of the Champions League second round.
Quinton Fortune opened the scoring for the English champions in the 14th minute against the run of play.
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The Red Devils, coming off a slump in form in the English Premier League, failed to impress at the new Stadium of the Dragon and were mostly outplayed by Porto, the UEFA Cup holder and unbeaten in the Portuguese league this season.
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McCarthy rifled a first-time shot past goalkeeper Tim Howard for the equalizer in the 29th minute and beat two Manchester defenders to head in a Nuno Valente long ball in the 78th minute.
``What Benni did was great, but it was team work that won,'' Porto coach Jose Mourinho said. ``We'll be playing the same way at Old Trafford.''
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Fortune made an opportunist strike to net his second Champions League goal.
Paul Scholes hit a low drive from a free kick on the edge of the penalty area which Porto 'keeper Vitor Baia couldn't hold, and the South African defender sprinted in to tap the ball into the net.
Ruud van Nistelrooy, who with Louis Saha on his European debut for the Red Devils was mostly a spectator, had a rare short-range miss soon after.
Porto had most of the possession and probed repeatedly down the right flank and the Manchester back line, featuring a makeshift central defense pairing of Wes Brown and Gary Neville, scrambled to hold firm.
While Baia had little to do, Dmitry Alenichev and Ricardo Carvalho both came close in the space of two minutes for Porto before McCarthy beat Howard from an Alenichev cross.
McCarthy could have put Porto ahead two minutes later when he picked up a loose ball on the edge of the Manchester area but Howard closed him down.
Porto kept up the pressure after the interval.
McCarthy twice came close to giving Porto the lead, and Brazilian 19-year-old Carlos Alberto also hit just wide.
Four minutes from the end Manchester captain Roy Keane was sent off for stepping on Baia.
The Reds defense was missing suspended Rio Ferdinand and injured Mikael Silvestre.
Real Sociedad 0, Lyon 1
Argentine defender Gabi Schurrer scored an own-goal in the 18th minute Wednesday as Lyon beat Real Sociedad 1-0 in the first leg of the Champions League second round.
Lyon took a stride toward the quarterfinals with an impressive display which ended Sociedad's 26-game unbeaten home record in European competition, which stretched back to 1975.
The French team obtained the all-important away goal to carry into the return leg on March 9 when Schurrer turned Florent Malouda's low cross into his net before goalkeeper Sander Westerveld could reach the ball.
Sociedad's Spanish international midfielder Xabi Alonso said the defeat gave his team no alternative but to attack in the second game.
Stuttgart 0, Chelsea 1
Stuttgart defender Fernando Meira diverted the ball into his own net after 12 minutes trying to clear a hard low cross from Glen Johnson intended for Hernan Crespo.
Stuttgart dominated the first two-thirds of the match but ran out of steam in the final stage and could not come back. Chelsea has now won all of its four Champions League matches away without conceding a goal, while Stuttgart slipped to its first defeat at home.
Felix Magath's team had never lost a European competition in 11 previous matches under his guidance and beat Manchester United in the group stage this fall.
Deportivo de La Coruna 1, Juventus 0
Albert Luque scored the winner with a 37th-minute volley. Juventus' French defender Lilian Thuram met a Deportivo cross from the right flank with a header that bounced straight up into the air and Luque met the ball on the way down with an angled shot that went past goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.
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