Articles tagged with "sporting"
5 Things We Learned From Matchday 5: Wednesday Edition.
By chris | November 27th, 2008The Cinderellas are in group B, not A. Cluj was the underdog-come-good story to start out the campaign, and deservedly so. They beat Roma - though ...
Its Crunch Time In The Champions League
By Rob | November 24th, 2008Back to Champions League action this week guys and gals, and indeed, some excitement is afoot as we reach the climax. With just this and ...
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 ...
Porto defeats Sporting in Taça de Portugal
By j | November 10th, 2008Jesualdo Ferreira's Porto rejoice as they defeated defending cup-holders Sporting on penalties and now safely advance the next round Taça de Portugal, a title that ...
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 ...
Sporting defeats Shakhtar Donetsk
By sasha | November 5th, 2008Shakhtar Donetsk's hopes to advance in the Champions League ended with a 1-0 loss to Portuguese super-power Sporting. The match was tightly played before the ...
Shakhtar will be satisfied with a win only
By sasha | November 4th, 2008As Mircea Lucescu's Shakhtar Donetsk ready to face Portuguese giant Sporting in Lisbon, they have seen their league play improve recently included this past weekends ...
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 ...
late shocker sinks Shakhtar Donetsk
By sasha | October 22nd, 2008Head scoreless throughout the match Shakhtar Donetsk appeared to have found a way to control Sporting's tremendous attack. Mircea Lucescu's need to have Brandão's production ...
Shakhtar Donetsk v Sporting in Champions League
By sasha | October 22nd, 2008Following Dynamo Kyiv's great triumph over Porto yesterday, Shakhtar Donetsk takes on another of Portugal's great Football powerhouses, Sporting. With both clubs locked in a ...
Dynamo!!!
By sasha | October 21st, 2008With great pride I wanted all supporters of Ukrainian Football to be aware of Dynamo Kyiv's great victory today against Porto. This is Dynamo's first ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Two (Wednesday) LiveBlogaganza
By Daryl | October 1st, 2008Another eight Champions League games today, and I'm going to try and cover them all here in one big LiveBlog. Personally, I think today's games ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vacation Extends Through Weekend
By Greg | September 12th, 2008The league international break continues through the weekend and the next meaningful league matches are going to be played at the end of next week. ...
Champions League Groups Set
By Greg | August 28th, 2008With Guimarães losing to FC Basel 1893 last night, Porto and Sporting stand alone as the sole Portuguese representatives in this season's iteration of the ...
Jornada 1 Recap: Benfica Need To Wake Up Fast
By Greg | August 25th, 2008What a frigging weather nightmare Tropical Storm Fay was this past week. My wife and sister in law had the bright idea of visiting ...
preview of Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
By j | August 16th, 2008The Portuguese SuperCup (Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira) against Sporting tonight is a perfect way to start an exciting campaign. Porto manager Jesualdo Ferreira is ...
Workweek In Review: 8/11 - 8/15
By Greg | August 15th, 2008Since I only blog during the week (sorry, I get even MORE drunk on the weekends than on work days, so I probably couldn't even ...
Dragões called up by Argentina
By j | August 6th, 2008With great pride I want all loyal Dragões fans to be aware that Alfio Basile has chosen Lucho González, Lisandro López and Mariano González for ...
Some Benfica Bits and Times, They Are A Changin'
By Greg | August 5th, 2008Benfica 2 - 1 Vitoria Guimarães -- Benfica have had an exciting transfer period with a round of crappy pre-season results thrown in. Before ...
Moutinho Tries the Crying Game, Boavista Officially Sent Down
By Greg | July 28th, 2008After using this space sparingly to pitch a bitch about how the Portuguese Liga has been Le Suck on the news front all summer, finally ...
Blogging in a Black Hole
By Greg | July 22nd, 2008The title says it all. I decide it's a great idea to come back in March of this year and hit ya'll off with ...
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