His style is worse than Rino's but I guess he does he job fine...


So you like Benfica too??

Yep. And I was in Lisbon the day of the UEFA Cup match and watched the game at a pub on the Rossio (main square).

Nice!

Benfica also won!! I watched athe game s much as I could cause of the Spanish clash.

Nelson crosses on first-touch, Simao scores! Katsouranis played as CB!! LOL!! And he was good at it. At first I was surprised but then again I thought that his middle name could very well be "I'm always first on the ball"...

What a day!!

I didn't see the match but I asked a friend of mine and he said Katsou played there because Luisao was suspended.

Portugal... who is this Pepe guy from Porto I've been reading about? Is he any good?

SOunds like something Gattuso would say

Cazzo!


...

Frenia

In the first year in Porto he was a joke. Really... Kaladze-like, maybe worse. But now he's like the "Luisao from Porto". Obviously not THAT good as the Benfica and Brazil NT one, but he's good. Probably the 2nd best defender in the league. Agressive.

He scores a lot of goals in corners and fk (headers). Juventus and R.Madrid rumours were all around him on the last month.

Porto has clearly 4 top players: Quaresma, Pepe, Lucho Gonzalez and Anderson (still very young though). The others are good, but this are the "ones".

Quaresma... He can do anything with his right foot. Well almost.

Can he eat off of his right foot

He can do whatever he wants. He's a gipsy. (not j/k)

Talking about Quaresma... Sporting Lisbon just beat FCPorto 0-1. Nani played a superb match (another one from th Sporting youth academy).

Whoa. Sporting beat Porto? Yay! And Nani's got great potential. Glad he was called up for this round of Euro qualifiers.

Benfica beat Amadora 1-0 today, thanks to a late goal from Petit. They're now within 1 point of Porto.

My neighbours (Benfica fans) went crazy tonight...
Late goal from Petit, deflected shot from about 40 metres gave them the win.

Porto 52
Benfica 51
Sporting 46

And we've Benfica x Porto, the next round on the 1st of April. Things are getting hot down here.

Hee. Now that will be a fun one. (Forca Benfica!) Wish I could actually SEE the games rather than relying on the text play by plays!

Don't you have RTP Internacional? I think they broadcast the League matches live. Ask dst, I think he watches Benfica matches in that channel. He knows better than me.

In here we basically just use the PPV channel SportTV1 and 2.

*grin* No, I don't have RTP -- that's a satellite station here and I have cable. Sadly, watching a stream isn't an option either, as I'm on an antiquated dialup connection. For the majority of Portuguese games (ie, not UEFA Cup or Champions League which I DO get), I follow via Mais Futebol or other Portuguese websites.

Did anybody see the PSV - Ajax game played earlier in the week? It was spectacular, Wesley Sneijder had the game of his career! Ajax completely destroyed them in their own ground!

1-1 in today's Portuguese Classico (Benfica v. Porto). Porto remains on top by 1 point, followed by Benfica.

Rui Costa played the second half. His first time on the pitch in a good long while.

I didn't see any of it

I hear our goal was an o.g. though?

Yep. Porto score on a fk, Pepe's header on the 1st half. (Benfica missed Luisao - injuried)
Benfica scored on the 2nd half, Lucho's own goal.

I think a draw was a fair result. Porto dominated on the FH, Benfica on the SH.

We're going to have championship until the end. 7 matches to play.

I think we have the harder run in though to be honest. Having to play both Braga and Sporting. They're both home ties, but still possible banana-skins on the way to the title.

If we get 6 points from those, It'll be ours

Benfica drew against the last club on the table. (2-2)
Same prob that Milan have. Too old, too slow... the team.

Porto champ. Benfica will fight with Sporting for the 2nd place.

Not to mention it was a last minute penalty that got us the draw.

lol
there were 6 matches from french ligue ending up 0 - 0 out of 8 matches

Of the big leagues in European football, it's the worst of the lot.

Lyon win it EVERY year.

Some people like this, but the gap between 2nd and last is very few points. I don't like it when all teams are the same.

This is the badge of a Greek team in the first division.

Really nice colours

j/k right?

link

Unbelievable.

Pretty much...

always good to have fans

Result from weekend:

Kilmarnock 1-2 Celtic

Injury time winner from Nakamura seals another title for Celtic, and once again shows that Rangers are no competition.

The Eredivisie is really something this season. All top 3 have the same ammount of points with 1 game left to play, but AZ have a much superior goal difference. I would really like to see Ajax win it.

Btw, Sneijder was amazing in their last game

Holland:

PSV champ by +1 goal over Ajax.

Portugal:

Porto derby: Boavista 2-1 FCPorto (Poor match by Quaresma and co. Match of the season for Boavista)

Lisbon derby: Benfica 1-1 Sporting (Benfica played without Luisao and Simao... Even with that they got a draw. Sporting was better IMO.)

1. FCPorto 62p
2. Sporting 59
3. Benfica 58

With 3 matches to play... and it will end like this. Porto champ, Sporting straight do the CL, Benfica to the CL 3rd pre.

Never seen anything this close !!! I really wanted Ajax to win it Oh well...



I hope Benfica win it with some sort of miracle, 4 points adrift with 9 points up for grabs, still mathematically possible, but I can't see it happening

Me too.

It's a cruel system. A championship game would be much more fair

ya i freaked out when i herd the score, i wanted ajax but i dint mind if az won it it and really all i wanted was any team but PSV to win ...

A championship game meaning, the top 3 or 4 teams going into a play off sort of thing right?

I personally don't agree with that. If a team has been amazing for the entire season and is in first and the ones behind him are far off by more then 10 points then I can't see how it could be more fair.

If you are referring to the fact of deciding a league on goal difference when points are level then I would totally agree with you

No. If two teams end the league with the same amount of points then they should decide who wins the title in a game between them and not on goal difference

Oh then certainly that would be a much better idea then the goal difference thing.

I think it's still like that in Serie A

Yep

Simao Sabrosa, Benfica's captain and winger, was under cirurgy today. Knee problems.
He'll miss the rest of the season... obviously. Too bad. He's the best player in the League.

^^^^

FaCK YOU F@@@@@@ck you

There is only one Quaresma, one Quaresma. Gypsy kings for life.

Porto won another title today. Number 22

Yup. Porto and Sporting straight to group stage. Benfica to the 3rd pre-CL.

So now it's like this the table of the Championships:

-Benfica 31
-Porto 22
-Sporting 18

Dutch CL Play-Off result:

FT Ajax Amsterdam [3 - 0] AZ Alkmaar
56' [1 - 0] J. Heitinga
58' [2 - 0] R. Donk (o.g.)
90' [3 - 0] Gabri