The Gathering G result, combined with Dynamo Kiev's triumph over Maccabi Tel Aviv, implies Chelsea join Manchester City and Weapons store in Monday's last-16 draw to the detriment of 2004 champions Porto, who drop into the Europa Group.
Chelsea entered the diversion on the back of Saturday's humiliating thrashing at home to Bournemouth, an amusement which Diego Costa missed after a reported spat with Mourinho.
Mourinho declined to recognize talk of his side dropping into the Europa Alliance and reestablished Costa into his beginning line-up, against the club with whom he made his name in administration.
Furthermore, Costa, the point of convergence of a stimulated Chelsea assault, was vital to a move which saw the hosts break the halt after only 12 minutes.
Having been played through on objective, the Spain global's low shot cannoned off Porto 'guardian Iker Casillas and straight into Marcano, who unintentionally ricocheted the ball towards objective.
His cautious accomplice Maicon attempted unproductively to keep the ball from going too far yet the fifth authority affirmed the ball had and the objective was recompensed.
Justifiably, the leap forward propelled the hosts who started to hint at the sparkling structure which saw them guarantee the Chief Association title last season.
Chelsea's 2-0 triumph over Porto in the Champions Alliance gathering stage facilitated the weight on supervisor Jose Mourinho
Costa, Eden Peril and Oscar all connected to extraordinary impact as the last saw a twisted shot avoided barely wide of objective on 28 minutes.
It showed up Porto had no choice yet to submit fouls as two players got yellow cards before the break, however this maybe was more down to ref Cuneyt Cakir's over extravagance to go to his pocket as Costa and Nemanja Matic were likewise occupied.
Chelsea went looking for a brief moment promptly after the break however Willian neglected to benefit as much as possible from his chance two minutes in, before Jesus Crown drew Thibaut Courtois into a fine spare.
Be that as it may, inside of five minutes Chelsea broadened their lead. Porto neglected to regard the notice from Willian's prior endeavor forward and, after Danger slipped him in behind Miguel Layun, the Brazilian committed no error in rifling the ball low past Casillas.
The objective left Porto requiring three objectives to qualify and supervisor Julen Lopetegui pulled out all the stops as Ruben Neves and Vincent Aboubakar entered the quarrel.
The promising Yacine Brahimi turned out to be Porto's just feasible outlet as they pushed for an objective, yet his objective bound exertion was conclusively flicked far from objective by Branislav Ivanovic on 64 minutes.
The Porto substitutions seemed to advantage Chelsea more as the amusement opened up, however a poor touch from Costa saw Soul neglect to rebuff the guests on the counter on 79 minutes, before Danger hit the post with a low drive a moment later.
Substitute Cristian Tello drew the immaculate Courtois enthusiastically late on before Brahimi saw an eminent volley miss the objective at the passing, however the night eventually had a place with Chelsea.
Nemanja Matic extends into a test on Hector Herrera
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