Articles tagged with "benfica"
Associação Académica de Coimbra match preview
By j | December 1st, 2008Heading into todays match against visiting Associação Académica de Coimbra, Porto sits seventh in the table with Leixões off to a stunning start. With two ...
Olympiacos vs. Benfica: Player Critique
By Peter Katsiris | November 28th, 2008In arguably the best performance by Olympiacos thus far this season, the Greek Champions thrashed Portuguese side Benfica 5-1 at the Giorgos Karaiskakis stadium in ...
Olympiacos’ offense bombards Benfica for Five
By Peter Katsiris | November 27th, 2008Olympiacos reignited its UEFA campaign with a stunning five-goal performance against SL Benfica on Thursday night, as the Greek side scored steamed past Benfica with ...
Diogo: I will give it my all
By Peter Katsiris | November 27th, 2008Ahead of his side's UEFA Cup encounter with Benfica, Diogo assured the Greek media his sights are set on European success. The Brazilian has ...
Jornada 9 Preview: Portugal's A Mess
By Greg | November 21st, 2008This weekend's matches open in a Portugal that is currently reeling from a National Team perspective. The state of Portuguese football is in a ...
Jornada 8 Recap: Leixões Still At the Top
By Greg | November 18th, 2008Double u tee eff is going on with the league this season? How in the name of all that is holy as well as ...
No League Matches, Let's Do the Taça Dance
By Greg | November 7th, 2008Sorry I didn't get to a recap of the league this week. I'll throw one up sometime next week. The aforementioned domestic competition ...
The CimBom conquers the Fortress of Light- Benfica 0-2 Galatasaray
By Musab | November 6th, 2008I've been putting a lotta slack on Skibbe for his poor results lately. I've also stated that the Benfica and Fenerbahce away matches were vital ...
Zhovto-Syni!
By sasha | November 6th, 2008Following Champions League losses of Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv it is up to Metalist Kharkiv to save me from this week of despair. ...
Jornada 7 Preview: Still Lookin' For A Hero
By Greg | October 31st, 2008The first six weeks of the season have been somewhat confusing. Sporting rolled out of the gates with three wins and those who were ...
Europe's Unexpected Table Leaders
By chris | October 27th, 2008If you've looked at the tables across Europe, you might find yourself doing double takes to make sure that is the name you saw up ...
Jornada 6 Preview: Back to Work
By Greg | October 24th, 2008The league welcomed the end of the International Break last week with a round of Portuguese Cup matches that I blatantly ignored as it's not ...
German Jinxes
By Abby | October 22nd, 2008Apparently, Portuguese giants Benfica have a poor record in Germany. They've played 15 games on German soil and lost 11 of them. They've never won ...
Rui Costa: Classing Up the Joint
By Lotte Cox | October 15th, 2008Portuguese legend. Fiorentina legend. Milan legend. Benfica legend. Wore his socks better than anyone who ever has or ever will play football. Really, the man ...
Jornada 5 Recap: Familiar Faces in First Places
By Greg | October 9th, 2008The league really has to change its name. I know that it's allegedly called "Liga Sagres" after the beer company "Sagres," but without commercializing ...
UEFA Cup draw - The going gets tough(er)
By Martini Extra Dry | October 7th, 2008The UEFA Cup draw has now taken place and our dear beloved Aston Villa are now getting their first real taste of what to expect ...
Metalist Kharkiv in tough Group B of UEFA Cup
By sasha | October 7th, 2008After overcoming the legendary Turkish club Beşiktaş, Metalist Kharkiv as been drawn into a very tough Group B that includes Bundesliga's Hertha Berlin, Greece Super ...
Jornada 5 Precap: Here We Go Again
By Greg | October 7th, 2008Well, that lasted a whole four weeks... Jornada five brought us a Porto away win against formerly second place Sporting. Which, as you ...
UEFA Cup draw today
By Martini Extra Dry | October 6th, 2008The draw for the group stage of the UEFA Cup takes place today, with Villa seeded in the fourth pot, meaning we will definitely face ...
Jornada 5 Preview: 2 v 4 and 3 v 5
By Greg | October 3rd, 2008It's a big weekend in Portuguese club football. Second place Sporting welcome fourth spot Porto with open arms and hearts for another iteration of ...
Champions League Matchday 2: Sporting v. FC Basel 867-5309 Preview
By Greg | October 1st, 20082008/09 Champions League Group C Matchday 2 Sporting v. FC Basel 1893 October 1, 2008 @ 2:45 PM Eastern Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal Preview Both teams ...
Jornada 4 Recap: Logjammin' At the Top O' The Table
By Greg | September 30th, 2008Four matches have been played and only three points separate first place from tenth. While I don't necessarily expect Nacional and Leixões to be ...
Benfica 2 - 0 Sporting: Match Recap
By Greg | September 29th, 2008Great. Just frigging great. We take all nine points from the first three matches, and then this. The hugging, self-love, and grab-assing ...
Jornada 4 Pre-Cap: Benfica Protect the Fortress da Luz
By Greg | September 29th, 2008Since O Belem and Sexy Leixy still have a match to play today, I'll reserve the weekly superlatives (as I have in the past) for ...
Benfica v. Sporting Derby Preview
By Greg | September 27th, 20082008/09 Portuguese Liga Sagres Jornada 4 Benfica v. Sporting September 27, 2008 @ 20:45 Local time Estadio da Luz, Lisbon Preview Both teams come into this game ...
Jornada 4 Preview: Benfica v. Sporting Derby Time!!!
By Greg | September 26th, 2008As you're all well aware (and according to the big bosses, I've made you too aware) I've been away for a while with vacation and ...
I Disappear, I Reappear
By Greg | September 25th, 2008Sorry about the empty space and time in between postings. We had an international break to deal with but I also managed to preview ...
Europe's 10 Biggest Transfer Window Bargains
By chris | September 3rd, 2008Obviously the true bargains won't be known for some time, but there were a few transfers which caught the eye before the participants had even ...
Benfica match review
By j | August 31st, 2008The Clássico was as feisty you would expect and fittingly, with it being a reasonably balanced affair, ended in a 1-1 draw before 53,000 at ...
week 2 Benfica preview
By j | August 30th, 2008Seems remarkable to have a Clássico in week two of the campaign however in many aspects and as I noted in part one of the ...
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