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Embarassment of News Riches and Jornada 3 Preview
By: Greg |
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I love being in season. I don’t mean like oysters or soft shell crab in season. I mean in football season. This means that I don’t have to put together a Frommer’s travel guide to Coimbra or a top ten list of local Churrascarias in order to get by on a slow [...]
UEFA Champions League Draw Is Complete
By: Greg | 4 Comments
All the pomp and circumstance is complete and the Portuguese clubs have taken their rightful places among the world’s best (Don’t gimme any BS about any of the rest of the world’s clubs. These are, HANDS DOWN, the best club teams in the world.) Here’s how the draw shakes out, along with analysis [...]
Benfica Make It Three Porkchop Representatives In Tomorrow’s Draw
By: Greg | 1 Comment
Copenhagen must have spent the entire first half leaving the majority of their energy, heart, and gumption on the pitch. Benfica managed to shut the flying Danish side down for the majority of the second half through small periods of counter attacking play mixed with a much stronger midfield and defense. Petit played [...]
Category: BenficaBenfica 1 - 0 Copenhagen 1st Half
By: Greg | 1 Comment
Benfica must have eaten a salad of four-leaf clovers and be wearing horseshoes instead of football boots, because Copenhagen had about seven completely legitimate scoring chances. This is not an exaggeration, they literally could justifiably be up 7-1 at this point. They have wasted so many chances from as close as six yards [...]
Category: BenficaJornada 2 Recap and Other Bite Size Items
By: Greg | 3 Comments
Round two is in the books and Porto have taken their customary spot on top of the table, presently being shared with Maritimo. If you feel that Maritimo will be heading into the stretch run with a real shot at the championship, you’re stupid. I’m sorry, I know I’m not generally in the [...]
Rock Me Amadeus Nostradamus
By: Greg | 5 Comments
Come one, come all… Try and out predict the amazing Portuguese Football predictor guy! Stand in awe as he predicts Anderson’s game is more suited for the Premier League than Nani’s and that neither player will get much burn this year. Marvel at how he steadfastly picks Sporting to win at the Dragao [...]
Week Two and a Monster’s Already On the Cards
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It’s only the second jornada of the season, but this weekend brings us a clash of titans between Sporting and Porto at the Dragão. I feel these two teams will probably be battling it out for first place this year. If you care at all about Portuguese club football you have to open [...]
It Is the Twilight Zone, You Better Shake Your Bones
By: Greg | 4 Comments
Have we entered the Twilight Zone? Is a player actually selecting a Portuguese club over a first place English Premier League outfit? Furthermore, is that player choosing Benfica who have started off the season drawing with newly promoted Leixões , are being led by a newly hired manager, and are probably minutes away [...]
Austria & Switzerland Apparently Not In Portugal’s 2008 Summer Vacation Plans
By: Greg | 21 Comments
FIFA released the most recent worldwide rankings today and Portugal found themselves two spots lower in tenth place. I saw this list this morning thinking “Oh, man, after we give Armenia a good whoopin’, they’ll regret dropping us.” Cut ahead a few hours and it’s 1-1 at the final whistle. We drew [...]
Back To the DRAWing Board…
By: Greg | 2 Comments
Well wasn’t that just a bunch of sister-kissing that went on this past weekend? Only three clubs (Sporting, Porto, and Maritimo) took maximum points this week, with five of the eight games resulting in draws. Let’s have a look at the final score lines for the first jornada..
Sporting 4 - 1 Académica [...]
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