Articles tagged with "benfica"
Swinging Around for the Second Leg Thrillers
By Greg | November 6th, 2007Now that each team has faced one another in the Champions League groups, it's time for the second legs of each fixture to be played ...
Jornada 9 Ends Porto's Win Streak
By Greg | November 6th, 2007As you found out here yesterday, Belenenenenenenenses (1 'en' for every one of Porto's wins prior to the draw) slowed Porto's avalanche down Mount Portugal ...
Three days of European football ahead for SPL sides
By Ian Rose | November 5th, 2007I have to admit that my mind is beginning to wander to November 17th. Scotland v. Italy at Hampden. But before that glorious ...
Jornada 9 Pre-Recap and The Curse of Frank Stallone
By Greg | November 5th, 2007It's finally happened. Porto have dropped points. I'm convinced that this is a result of Frank Stallone's appearance on last week's preview. ...
Jornada 9 Preview Brought To You By... You Guessed It...
By Greg | November 2nd, 2007Frank Stallone. Another day, another dollar. There's somewhat of a shot that Porto actually drop points this weekend but I'm not holding my ...
Wait, This Was Supposed To Be Boring and Meaningless!
By Greg | November 1st, 2007I've spent a fair amount of pixels on making fun of the Carlsberg Cup tournament. An elephant sized diarrhea has come out of ...
Carlsberg Cup Fifth Round, Second Leg, Row Thirty Five, Seat A
By Greg | October 31st, 2007The I Couldn'tcarelessberg Cup is continuing tonight. The second leg of the tournament's pre-group stage takes place as the real stories here are the ...
Porto Challenging Mourinho For Station in Life
By Greg | October 30th, 2007Jose Mourinho once said, when referring to the fact that he could have stayed at Porto and lived the easy life, that in Portugal it ...
Jornada 8 Pre-Recap and Joyous Dish Of Joybeams
By Greg | October 29th, 2007I'm home today waiting for both the gas and satellite installation technicians. I couldn't care less about cooking gas being enabled, and given the ...
Porto Season Pwnage Round 8
By Greg | October 26th, 2007Well, Braga drew at Bolton yesterday 1 - 1, summarily crushing another prediction of mine (I had Braga 1-0 winners). It's gotten so bad ...
If My Predictions Are Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right
By Greg | October 25th, 2007When it comes to football, I consider myself a Vulcan in a human being's body. I'm logical, level headed, and can tend to be ...
Benfica 1-0 Celtic: Bhoys in the Cellar
By JT | October 24th, 2007Celtic failed to hold on for a point they deserved when Oscar Cardoso chested down a nice through ball and lofted over the onrushing Artur ...
Washboard Abs to the Rescue! AND Benfica Can't Afford to Luz
By Greg | October 24th, 2007Porto at Olympique de Marseille, 2:45 Eastern -- Ricardo Quaresma brings his magic feet, washboard abs, and a bus load of sex appeal into the ...
Benfica-Celtic: High Noon in Group D
By JT | October 24th, 2007The landscape of Champions League Group D will become significantly more clear today as Celtic and Benfica go head-to-head at Lisbon's Stadium of Light trying ...
Freddy Adu owns the Portuguese League Cup
By Bob | October 22nd, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUBt84pNI0[/youtube] Lest you were thinking that Freddy Adu might have been feeling sad that he missed Real Salt Lake's season ending victory over the Colorado Rapids, ...
Another big European week for SPL sides
By Ian Rose | October 22nd, 2007This time of year, there's not much time for a Scotland fan (or blogger) to breathe. One weekend, we've got Euro 2008, the next, ...
Jornada 7 Full-On Recap
By Greg | October 9th, 2007PortoFest 2007 marches right along as last night's matches bring the seventh week to a close in this year's already decided season. And aaaaaa-way ...
5/8ths of Jornada 7 In The Books, Porto Make it Lucky Number 7 ::Yawn::
By Greg | October 8th, 2007Seven games, seven Porto wins. Even after Sporting put together a dominating second half against rising stars V.Guimarães, I still have no faith that ...
Jornada 7 and FixtureFacts 2.7
By Greg | October 5th, 2007As the work week comes to a close, Portuguese teams ended up being 2-1 in the Champions League and had only one out of four ...
CL Group D: A Closer Look
By JT | October 4th, 2007We're a third of the way through Group D's matches in this year's Champions League, so its a good time to assess the way things ...
Dicky Quaresma Sticks It Late, Benfica Still Firing Blanks
By Greg | October 4th, 2007Beşiktaş 0 - 1 Porto -- Ricardo Quaresma can play for my team any day. After a tepid first half by Porto which saw ...
Celtic completes matchday sweep for Scotland
By Ian Rose | October 3rd, 2007With a 90th minute strike, recent hero Scott McDonald has put Celtic up 2-1 over AC Milan at Celtic Park, and that is how the ...
Lions, and Eagles, and Dragons... Oh my!
By Greg | October 3rd, 2007The second games of group play in the Champions League conclude today. Here's what we're looking at from a Portuguese perspective at this point:**Sporting ...
Jornada 6 Wrap and Sans-Pareil Soccer Sodality Sneak Peek
By Greg | October 2nd, 2007Another week of PortoFest 2007/08 is in the books. I'm now on a permanent table-posting boycott until Porto drop some sort of league points. ...
Let's Hope Porto Become the New York Mets of the Portuguese Liga!
By Greg | October 1st, 2007And fall victim to a monumental collapse, because if they don't, this'll be the most boring season EVER. Yup, you guessed it... Porto ...
Delicious Lisbon Derby Day
By Greg | September 28th, 2007Well boom-chicka-boom, if it isn't time for the two small clubs from Lisbon to go head-to-head in their first derby of the year. The ...
Our Lady of Fatima Answers Her Fans' Prayers
By Greg | September 27th, 2007Okay, it's not exactly when the US Hockey team defeated the USSR in 1980's Olympics, but it's an upset nonetheless. Liga da Honra (t-minus ...
Do Europeans Do Anything Besides Drink and Gamble?
By Greg | September 26th, 2007Look out on the pitch this weekend. Check the clubs' shirt sponsors, the boards behind the touchline, and maybe even the name of the ...
Warm Up The Bus
By Greg | September 25th, 2007When I was in high school, we had rather dominant sports teams. We'd go to watch the basketball team run up 40 and 50 ...
All Your Points Are Belong to Porto
By Greg | September 24th, 2007Another week, another Porto win. They've taken 15 of a possible 15 points thus far this season. Games 1-5 are just as valuable, ...
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