Porto 1 - 2 Manchester City: Aguero snatches late winner

Sergio Aguero came off the bench to hand Manchester City the advantage in their Europa League tie against Porto.

The Argentine struck from close range with six minutes remaining as City came from behind to condemn the Portuguese champions to a rare home defeat at the Estadio do Dragao. With the match level, Samir Nasri played in Yaya Toure, who pulled back for an unmarked Aguero to calmly side-foot the winner from six yards.

The hosts took a 27th-minute lead in the first leg of the last-32 clash through Silvestre Varela. Hulk broke down the left and crossed low for Varela, who got ahead of Gael Clichy to turn the ball in from close range.

However, an Alvaro Pereira own goal gifted City an equaliser. Pereira tried to cut out a Toure cross aimed at Mario Balotelli ten minutes into the second half, but the ball struck his shoulder and bounced beyond wrong-footed goalkeeper Helton into the net for an own goal.

City boss Roberto Mancini’s decision to field a strong line-up that saw the return of Balotelli and Toure paid off and his confident team will hope to finish the second leg off next week.