LONDON, March 10: Porto and Deportivo Coruna scored the biggest Champions League upsets of the season on Tuesday when they knocked Manchester United and last season's beaten finalists Juventus out of the competition.
Porto, last season's UEFA Cup winners, scored a heart-stopping equaliser at the death to draw 1-1 at Old Trafford and beat Manchester United 3-2 on aggregate while Deportivo became the first Spanish side to beat Juventus at home for 42 years to win 1-0 on the night and 2-0 on aggregate.
Chelsea and Olympique Lyon also reached the last eight with first knockout round aggregate wins over VfB Stuttgart and Real Sociedad. Chelsea went through 1-0 on aggregate and Lyon 2-0.
The most dramatic moment of a night of only four goals came in the dying seconds at Old Trafford after Manchester United appeared to have done enough to squeeze into the last eight for the eighth successive year.
United took the lead against Porto with a 32nd minute Paul Scholes header which they held until the 90th minute. That would have been enough to give them an away goals rule victory after losing the first leg 2-1 in Porto.
Scholes also had a close-range goal wrongly disallowed by a linesman's flag just before half-time which would have put United 2-0 ahead. Porto, who had lost all six of their previous European matches in England, equalised in the 90th minute when a free-kick by Benni McCarthy, who scored both Porto goals in the first leg, was parried by American goalkeeper Tim Howard straight into the path of Portuguese international midfielder Costinha.
Deportivo became the first Spanish side to beat Juventus at home since Real Madrid won there in a European Cup quarterfinal in 1962, when Uruguayan international Walter Pandiani struck after 12 minutes to earn a 2-0 aggregate win which put them into the quarterfinals for the third time.
Pandani scored with a half-volley after a long clearance from goalkeeper Jose Molina bounced between Juve defenders Paolo Montero and Ciro Ferrara. Chelsea went through after a match that produced few chances for either side. The tie was ultimately settled by the own goal conceded by Stuttgart's Portuguese defender Fernando Meira two weeks ago.
Lyon seemed to be going through the same way until Juninho Pernambucano doubled their lead after 77 minutes with a beautifully-crafted goal. -Reuters