Articles tagged with "porto"
(Transfer) Window of Opportunity
By Greg | May 10th, 2007Since most European club seasons are now winding down, the speculation has begun in earnest regarding who's going and who's staying. Sir Alex, the ...
Down the Stretch they Come!
By Greg | May 9th, 2007In honor of this past weekend's Kentucky Derby, I figured I'd lead off with a horse racing reference. The stretch run is here and ...
Now for what you've all been waiting for......
By Gianfranco | April 29th, 2007With all of the transfer speculations this season and the continuing rumors of players coming and going I've been tossing around ideas of ideal players ...
Super Extra Special Lisbon Derby Weekend
By Greg | April 27th, 2007While it's not quite Benfica - Porto, this weekend's derby between Benfica and Sporting carries fantastic implications. One of the two teams has to ...
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. ...
Who's Your Dady?
By Greg | April 20th, 2007I'm officially going on a hiatus from predicting games. The only ones I seem to get right are the Porto and Sporting games. ...
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 ...
Who are you? Who, who, who who?
By Greg | April 11th, 2007It's a really really slow news day for Portuguese soccer. Maybe everything is being overshadowed today by some small team from England winning a ...
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. ...
Is That All You Take Away?? Is That All, Is That All...........
By Andy | April 5th, 2007...... is that all you take away?!?!!?!? Take a look at the left hand side of the picture. Those empty seats WERE reserved for the fans ...
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 ...
Chelsea v Valencia
By Andy | April 3rd, 2007For the Porto game I sat in the Shed Upper. For the Valencia game I will sitting in the Upper Tier of the Matthew Harding ...
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 ...
Uniao de Leiria Coach Skedaddles
By Greg | March 31st, 2007Uniao de Leiria is headed to Coimbra without their coach. Domingos Paciencia has resigned his post as team manager, citing, per Reuters, "disciplinary problems ...
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 ...
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 ...
FA Cup 6th Round: Chelsea 3-3 Tottenham
By Andy | March 11th, 2007I have been to hell and back, I have been through the wringer and I thought that Chelsea's first-half performance against Arsenal in the Carling ...
The Shakedown - a lot to digest....
By Nathan | March 8th, 2007By now everyone has seen the scores and gone through their emotional highs or lows...but as we wait for tomorrow's draw in Athens let's take ...
The 'Useless' German Won IT!!!!
By Andy | March 7th, 2007Cheers Bob - You know me too well!! I am awake nursing a sore head, sore throat and a sore back after my son took me ...
Champions League: Chelsea v Porto
By Andy | March 6th, 2007I am so looking forward to tonight's game, not because Chelsea have a wonderful opportunity to progress to the last eight of the Champions League, ...
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