MANUEL NEUER was FC Schalke 04’s hero, capping an outstanding performance with two penalty saves as the Bundesliga side won through to the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals at the expense of ten-man FC Porto.

Last season’s beaten finalists Liverpool were without midfielder Xabi Alonso, who has failed to recover from an ankle problem initially sustained at Portsmouth on Saturday, and aggravated last night in training at the Estadio Dragao.

Police in Brazil killed 33 suspected gang members and searched motorists at roadblocks in a bid to quell a wave of attacks on Sao Paulo’s police stations, courts and buses that had plunged South America’s largest city into fear.