OPORTO - Porto winger Ricardo Quaresma has called on his team-mates to show the "real Porto" in his side's second-leg clash with Schalke in the Champions League last-16.
The runaway Portuguese league leaders trail the Germans 1-0 after a lacklustre performance in the first leg in Gelsenkirchen, and will need to score twice against a side desperate to progress in Europe in a bid to save their season.
With this in mind Quaresma, who returned from a two-game lay-off last weekend, delivered a fiery rallying cry ahead of the home clash with the Germans.
He said: "This game is massive for us and all the Portuguese people, who surely will want to see a Portuguese side fighting in the Champions League.
"We'll have to play like the real Porto, with nerves of steel and fiery spirit.
"The first game didn't go well for us, but in the Dragao we'll be in charge. We're very strong and we're going to go through. We have all we need to make this happen.
"The important thing is not to get anxious and to treat this side with care. We know that they play physical football and will be looking to play on the counter-attack."
He added: "If they score first you'll see what you saw in Germany, that they'll just defend.
"We need to score first to bring them out a little, and any team who opens up a little here knows they won't leave without conceding anything less than two or three goals, maybe more."
Quaresma returned to action in Porto's 0-0 draw with Boavista last Saturday, after watching two games from the stands due to injury.
And while he says he is now fully fit and ready to face Schalke, he added that his team-mates are perfectly capable of getting a result without him.
"I feel fine. It was difficult for me to get into the rhythm of the game during the first 10 minutes of the derby (against Boavista) but after that I felt I played some good football," he said.
"But it'd be a sorry state of affairs if Porto depended on me or any other player, and we're fully aware that this is a team and that everyone has their own talent or value.
"Some players are more important than others, but this is normal. But I've never been concerned that this team was dependent on me."
With Quaresma back to full fitness coach Jesualdo Ferreira has no injury worries to concern him. Therefore club captain Pedro Emanuel, Jose Bosingwa and Lisandro Lopez return to the squad after sitting out last Saturday's trip across town to Boavista.
