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Jornada 9 Preview: Portugal’s A Mess
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This weekend’s matches open in a Portugal that is currently reeling from a National Team perspective. The state of Portuguese football is in a shambles after a 6-2 drubbing at the hands of colonial rivals Brazil.
The talk will be about how to get rid of Queiroz and who his replacement should be. [...]
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Jornada 8 Recap: Leixões Still At the Top
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Double u tee eff is going on with the league this season? How in the name of all that is holy as well as unholy are Leixões managing to keep up this ridiculous pace? They have 19 points in 8 matches and sit precariously at the top of the league with a 1 [...]
No League Matches, Let’s Do the Taça Dance
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Sorry I didn’t get to a recap of the league this week. I’ll throw one up sometime next week.
The aforementioned domestic competition is taking the weekend off for Round Seven Bazillion of the Taça de Portugal (the Cup of Portugal). Not to be confused with the Carlsberg (mmmm) Cup or the [...]
Jornada 7 Preview: Still Lookin’ For A Hero
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The first six weeks of the season have been somewhat confusing. Sporting rolled out of the gates with three wins and those who were picking them as the favorite to win the league this year were licking their chops. Then they hit a wall. Actually, they hit a hell of a large [...]
Jornada 6 Preview: Back to Work
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The 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 far enough into the tournament for me to care. It’s really not far enough into the tournament for you to care yet either, although the way the next round [...]
Jornada 5 Recap: Familiar Faces in First Places
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The league really has to change its name. I know that it’s allegedly called “Liga Sagres” after the beer company “Sagres,” but without commercializing it, it’s the “Portuguese Liga.” However, given the way the league has shook out in the past few years, it might as well be the “PORTOguese Liga.” Please [...]
Jornada 5 Precap: Here We Go Again
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Well, that lasted a whole four weeks… Jornada five brought us a Porto away win against formerly second place Sporting. Which, as you might have figured, also brings Porto back into familiar territory at the top of the table. Four years in a row? Please, God, no…
V.Setúbal play Marítimo [...]
Jornada 5 Preview: 2 v 4 and 3 v 5
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It’s a big weekend in Portuguese club football. Second place Sporting welcome fourth spot Porto with open arms and hearts for another iteration of the clássico (which describes seventeen matches during the season for some reason). Meanwhile, fifth place Benfica travel to current third place surprise Leixões.
After this week, Sporting, Porto, [...]
Jornada 4 Recap: Logjammin’ At the Top O’ The Table
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Four matches have been played and only three points separate first place from tenth. While I don’t necessarily expect Nacional and Leixões to be top o’ the table contenders when it’s all said and done, as I’ve intimated in the past, the matches at the start of the season count for just as many [...]
Jornada 4 Pre-Cap: Benfica Protect the Fortress da Luz
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Since 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 tomorrow’s full recap.
Porto returned to their winning ways and Sporting got worked in the Lisbon derby by a Benfica that got stronger and stronger as the match wore [...]
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