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The neighboring country’s press also praised Pepe’s performance against Juventus on Tuesday.
FC Porto eliminated Juventus from the Champions League, guaranteed their presence in the quarterfinals and Pepe was one of the great figures of the match that ended with the “Bianconera” victory 3-2, insufficient to overthrow the dragons in the elimination of the millionaire race.
The performance of the 38-year-old center was echoed around the world and, in addition to the many praise collected in England, the Spanish press – where Pepe played for ten years – did not overlook the performance of the Portuguese international.
The newspaper Marca highlights the number of cuts made (they were 18) by the player in the 120 minutes -more compensation- of the duel with Juve and highlights the relief, in the form of a bicycle kick, that Pepe made at 123 minutes of the game . Play, above the final whistle: “38 years, 18 cuts and a ‘Chilean’ at 123 ‘to knock down my friend Cristiano”, can be read in the title of the article dedicated to the defender.
“At 38 years old and with a ‘war wound’ he gave a heroic test of endurance at the Juventus stadium, to place FC Porto among the eight best teams in Europe. (…) The former Real Madrid player maintained aside his friend Cristiano Ronaldo, unable to find the goal, both in the first and in the second. Pepe’s extraordinary performance in Turin deserves a special mention, despite the 3-2 defeat. His bike in the 123rd minute, undoing Juve’s latest attack, he exemplified their total superiority in the large area, ”Marca writes in the online edition.
“Pepe jumped, went to the crash, corrected mistakes … Nobody could stand him. Not even the dazzling Federico Chiesa, who promised a happy ending for Juve,” adds the newspaper from the neighboring country. Pepe, remember, represented Real Madrid between 2007 and 2017.
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