Articles tagged with "benfica"
Jornada 29 Preview: Thank God It's Friday My Ass
By Greg | May 2nd, 2008Man, do I love Fridays. Actually, the only thing I hate about Friday is that people over acknowledge the day as being one to ...
Jornada 28 Recap: Big Three Winner Weekend
By Greg | April 29th, 2008Now that V.Setúbal and E.d.Amadora have recorded their draw, let's check them results once more: Braga 2 - 1 P.Ferreira Benfica 2 - 0 Belenenses Nacional 0 - 3 Académica Naval 1 ...
Jornada 28 Pre-Recap: Porto's Big 'F You' To The League
By Greg | April 28th, 2008Ever since the heat has been turned up on the Golden Whistle proceedings, Porto have taken the extra warmth of the spotlight and turned it ...
Jornada 28 Preview: Why AS Roma and Its Fans Need to Go Away
By Greg | April 25th, 2008I usually start each preview off with some witty banter but this week I have to discuss AS Roma and its huge fan base which ...
Top of the Table Run In Probability Game
By Greg | April 23rd, 2008I'm something of an amateur prognosticator / absolute genius, therefore I'm going to take a look into the future with the final three weeks of ...
Jornada 27 Recap: Come On the Chels!!!
By Greg | April 22nd, 2008Don't be confused by the Chelsea badge, it's there for my boys in blue who are going to take it to Fernanda Torres and Co. ...
Jornada 27 Pre-Recap: Sporting Hammered, Porto Rampant
By Greg | April 21st, 2008The weekend's action saw Porto absolutely dominate Benfica with two goals from Lisandro Lopez, putting him on twenty four goals for the season thus making ...
Jornada 27 Preview: Clássico Time
By Greg | April 18th, 2008These matches this weekend have a huge amount of expectation to live up to after the Sporting v Benfica cup semifinal. As if a ...
Strachan to Benfica?
By Matt | April 17th, 2008Reports have surfaced that Portuguese side and Celtic Champions League foe Benfica are very interested in acquiring Celtic coach Gordon Strachan for the same job ...
Taça de Portugal - Match of the Season Edition
By Greg | April 17th, 2008Simply put, I haven't watched / been a part of a match that was this exciting or entertaining for at least a year... Taça ...
Taça de Portugal Recap / Preview
By Greg | April 16th, 2008Ever since my return, I've largely ignored the Taça de Portugal. I even mistook it for a competition where you don't actually gain a ...
Jornada 26 Recap: Formula For a Happy Ending (Updated)
By Greg | April 15th, 2008Once more, here's them scores... Benfica 0 - 3 Académica E. Amadora 0 - 2 Belenenses V.Guimarães 1 - 0 Boavista V.Setúbal 1 - 2 Porto Nacional 1 - ...
Jornada 26 Preview: Fight For Porto's Scraps
By Greg | April 11th, 2008Now that King Porto have been crowned champions for the third successive season, all that is left for the other clubs is "to be or ...
What do The Offside and Boavista FC Have In Common?
By Greg | April 10th, 2008If you guessed "They both make you toil away in the world of football for no pay," then you're the winner, winner, galinha dinner. ...
Jornada 25 Recap: Porto-guese League Champions
By Greg | April 8th, 2008As you all know by now, this was Porto's weekend to pat themselves on the back for their third consecutive league championship. There's still ...
Jornada 25 Preview: Time for Porto to "Wrrrap it Uppp"
By Greg | April 4th, 2008I recall as a young kid having my friend Elliot over (who is still incidentally 15-20 years later still one of my best friends) to ...
Oscar Cardozo Suspended Three Matches for Being Stupid
By Greg | April 2nd, 2008Benfica's Oscar Cardozo has been suspended by UEFA for three matches following an incident in the 2-1 loss to Getafe on March 6th (see this ...
Jornada 24 Recap... Made Possible By Viewers Like You
By Greg | April 1st, 2008The league is basically a done deal what with Porto ahead of 2nd place Benfica by more points than Robert Downey, Jr has on his ...
Porto March On, Sporting and Benfica Dominate
By Greg | March 31st, 2008If you don't know the drill here, you might as well learn. Mondays mean you get the basic score rundown from the weekend's action. ...
Sing it With Me Now... Porto the Magic Dragons Own the Portuguese League
By Greg | March 28th, 2008Ahh good Ol' Puff the Magic Dragon. Peter, Paul, and Mary pulled quite the coup by having everyone happily sing along to a "children's" ...
Porto Look to Shut Down The Industry This Weekend
By Greg | March 27th, 2008As if the league isn't actually over to begin with, Porto can actually lift the cup this weekend if they manage to defeat Belenenses and ...
November to Now: The Season In Time Machine Mode
By Greg | March 20th, 2008I figure that since I've been gone that the Portuguese Liga has been in dark mode to all of North America. Even though I ...
Portuguese Phoenix From the Flames
By Greg | March 19th, 2008Okay, enough of the elaborately dumb ruse. I'm back. I got a promotion back in November and realized that I had to make ...
Round of 16 First Leg Wrap-up
By Ian Rose | March 6th, 2008Anderlecht 0-5 Bayern Munich Wow. This always looked like a lopsided tie, but I didn't expect this. With ten goals in their last two ...
Weekend Watch: Send in the Clones
By Daryl | February 29th, 2008A quick guide to the weekend's action: Saturday Arsenal vs Aston Villa The Premier League leaders face a tough test from Martin O'Neill's men, in their first game ...
The UEFA Cup "league table"
By Ian Rose | February 22nd, 2008I got to thinking last night about different ways to talk about the 16 remaining teams in the UEFA Cup. Which side really is ...
Supersubs Rescue Benfica After Some Bramblesque Defending
By Daryl | February 22nd, 2008Bramblesque isn't a word, but it should be. Benfica went into the second leg of their UEFA Cup last 32 games away to Nürnberg with a ...
Goalkeeping Blunder of the Day
By chris | February 15th, 2008From yesterday's Benfica - Nurnberg UEFA Cup matchup. And as I'm sure you all know: whenever a goalkeeping blunder is made, the blundering team will ...
Weekend Watch: Rooting for the Little Guy
By Martha | January 25th, 2008Saturday Liverpool v Havant and Waterlooville: Havant earned their way into the FA Cup fourth round with a 4-2 seeing off of Swansea, a team ...
More Battling Teammates
By Martha | January 8th, 2008[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=W0QAoKMB_Tw&feature=related[/youtube] It's not Newcastle players throwing down in the middle of a match, but it's ain't good: Benfica's Luisão and Konstantinos Katsouranis had a go at ...
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