Articles tagged with "benfica"
Live to Fight Another Day
By Greg | April 26th, 2007It's a slow Portuguese football news day, so Eusebio's successful surgery will allow me to enlighten those who have no idea about the Pantera Negra's ...
Benfica Resurrected
By Greg | April 24th, 2007Jornada 26 is in the books and the immovable force that is the "Big 3" all won their respective games. Benfica finally got a ...
Two Hat Tricks
By Greg | April 23rd, 2007Porto, Sporting, and Benfica completed a hat trick of wins this past weekend. This means that Porto maintains its four point lead on Sporting ...
Round 26... Fight!
By Greg | April 20th, 2007Sorry, I know it's a really cheap Mortal Kombat reference but constantly saying "Jornada #X Preview" gets boring after doing 3 or 4 of these. ...
Taça Semi Recap and Quick Hits
By Greg | April 19th, 2007Sporting, as expected, defeated Beira Mar in yesterday's first of two semi final games for the Taça de Portugal. Joao Moutinho started Sporting off ...
Taça de Portugal Semi Finals Preview
By Greg | April 18th, 2007The Taça de Portugal (aka the Portuguese Cup or "Goblet of Portugal" per Google's translator) competition continues today with the semi final match between Sporting ...
Bottoms Up!
By Greg | April 17th, 2007Before I even go into discussion about the Liga, I figured I'd just give a quick word of encouragement to Mr. Warnock's men over at ...
Chelsea Defense May Stink Next Year
By Greg | April 16th, 2007Apparently Jose Mourinho is looking to raid his former team further with a link to a move for Porto's Brazilian defender Pepe. The 24 ...
A Look Ahead to Jornada 25
By Greg | April 13th, 2007We head into the 25th round of the Liga with the top of the league still wide open and the trap door looking for two ...
You Shall Not Pass!
By Greg | April 13th, 2007Okay, it's relatively early and I'm hungover so a Lord of the Rings reference seems appropriate. Benfica got the Gandalf treatment yesterday from Espanyol ...
Benfica Don't Want to Pull a Magellan
By Greg | April 12th, 2007While Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is widely recognized as the first to circumnavigate the Earth, it was his crew who, in fact, completed the voyage ...
Benfica Need a Nap
By Greg | April 10th, 2007On a weekend where league leaders Porto dispatched of their bottom-of-the-table opponents Setubal, Benfica were handed a cake walk fixture with Beira Mar. What ...
Pre-Recap and Random Bits
By Greg | April 9th, 2007Since Benfica and Beira Mar haven't played yet tonight, I can't call this a full recap of the 24th Jornada. Hence, here's your incomplete ...
Jornada 24 Preview
By Greg | April 6th, 2007Easter weekend is upon us and Portuguese Liga football has a full slate of games for you to enjoy with your chocolates and bunnies. ...
Stopping to Inhale
By Greg | April 6th, 2007What a sensational thriller of a UEFA Cup game between Benfica and Espanyol yesterday. The game went EXACTLY the opposite of how I predicted/thought ...
Getting Up to Speed on the Taca de Portugal
By Greg | April 5th, 2007I figured since I have some time to fill between a recap of Benfica's UEFA Cup tie with Espanyol today and the upcoming 24th Jornada ...
The Eagles Have Landed
By Greg | April 4th, 2007Benfica have arrived in Barcelona ahead of their UEFA Cup tie with Espanyol tomorrow. It has come to that point in the 06/07 season, ...
Jornada 23 Recap
By Greg | April 3rd, 2007As expected, Sporting defeated Beira-Mar 2-0 on goals from Abel (14') and Liedson (32') to complete the final game of Jornada 23. Rounding out ...
Portugal has Gone Up
By Greg | April 2nd, 2007Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's true. After only one week of toiling in the Coca-Cola Offside League, the Portugal blog has managed to crack ...
Weekend Preview in 3 Words or Less
By Greg | March 30th, 2007Benfica. Porto. Sunday.(All games scheduled shown below, juuuust in case...)Saturday March 31st early game: Aves at BelenensesSaturday March 31st (well if it's not ...
Tabletop Football
By Greg | March 27th, 2007No, not THAT kind of tabletop football. This brand involves the two teams at the top of the table in the Portuguese League: FC ...
Do the Rancho!
By Greg | March 21st, 2007I spent a few idle minutes giving serious consideration to why Portuguese soccer isn't more popular worldwide. Rancho dancing and the associated traditional garb ...
6,000 is the Loneliest Number
By Greg | March 21st, 2007Despite a recent advertising blitz and call for "Everyone to the Stadium!" SC Braga could only muster 6,000 fans to the team's most recent ...
Benfica Ensures Three Horse Race
By Greg | March 20th, 2007Benfica kept the heat on FC Porto by defeating Estrela da Amadora yesterday 1-0. Portuguese international Armando Petit (No, not THAT Petit), scored on ...
Arsenal Surpass Benfica as Football Club with the most Members
By Bob | February 9th, 2007That didn't take long. Just a few months after Benfica laid claim to being the football club with the most members in the world, ...
United Out of UEFA Cup!
By Nick | December 6th, 2006Hooray!! Mercifully, we managed to avoid complete and utter disaster tonight. Inevitably, not without creating the mother of all scares for fans (seemingly the ...
Champions League -- It's Almost Knockout Time
By Martha | December 6th, 2006Yesterday while I was away from the internets and my precious cable TV, Roma secured the point they needed (plus two more) to advance to ...
Nail-Biting Time Again
By Nick | December 5th, 2006On the eve of Wednesday's crunch match, there's an air of confidence emanating from Old Trafford (though you'd hardly expect otherwise). Fergie seems pretty ...
Chivas to Set Record for Longest Football Game
By Bob | November 27th, 2006Ever since I was a little tyke and my parents gave me a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records and I saw the ...
Benfica is almost as popular as Scientology
By Bob | November 10th, 2006Benfica currently resides in third place in Portugal's football league, but the Lisbon giants are first in the hearts of their legions of fans. ...
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