Taca de Portugal
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Do You Buy Into The “New” Benfica?
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In the past fifteen seasons, Benfica have won only two league championships and two league cups. After this most recent, disastrous campaign when they finished fourth and “qualified” for the UEFA Cup, Benfica’s powers that be decided that it was time to take a new direction. They decided to be somewhat bold and [...]
Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting 2 – 0 Porto
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In front of what looked like about three hundred people at the Estadio Nacional in Jamor, Sporting won this year’s Taça de Portugal, defeating Porto 2-0 with a pair of extra time goals from late substitute Rodrigo Tiuí (shown left).
The match itself was dominated offensively by Sporting (catch some highlights below), in spite [...]
Preview of the Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting CP v FC Porto
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The climax of the season is upon us, as this Sunday’s Taça de Portugal final will be contested between Paulo Bento Box’s second place Sporting and Geraldo Rivera’s Jesualdo Ferreira’s first place Porto in Jamor at the Estadio Nacional.
The match itself represents the last shot at salvaging some sort of silverware this season [...]
Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season
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With the league still smarting from the Golden Whistle punishments handed down on Friday, the players took to the pitch to earn their money finish out the end of a controversy-filled season. Here’s how it all shook out:
Nacional 1 – 2 Belenenses
Braga 2 – 1 Académica
Naval 0 – 2 Porto
U.d.Leiria 1 – 1 P. Ferreira
Leixões 0 – 1 Marítimo
Sporting 2 – 1 Boavista
Benfica 3 – [...]
Top of the Table Run In Probability Game
By: Greg | 3 Comments
I’m something of an amateur prognosticator / absolute genius, therefore I’m going to take a look into the future with the final three weeks of the Portuguese Liga season. I’ve been saying for the past two or three weeks (no, really, this blog has been here for even longer than that) that the top [...]
Jornada 27 Recap: Come On the Chels!!!
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Don’t be confused by the Chelsea badge, it’s there for my boys in blue who are going to take it to Fernanda Torres and Co. today. The race at the top (save Porto) is getting even tighter and more interesting with the following results taking place this past jornada:
Académica 0 – 0 V.Guimarães
Marítimo 4 [...]
Taça de Portugal – Match of the Season Edition
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Simply put, I haven’t watched / been a part of a match that was this exciting or entertaining for at least a year…
Taça de Portugal Semifinal — Sporting 5 – 3 Benfica — I watched this game at a Portuguese bar that was probably 75% Sportinguista. Suffice it to say the first [...]
Taça de Portugal Recap / Preview
By: Greg | 6 Comments
Ever since my return, I’ve largely ignored the Taça de Portugal. I even mistook it for a competition where you don’t actually gain a spot in Europe by winning. However, as I was corrected on yesterday’s recap, the Carlsberg Cup (formerly known as the League Cup) is simply a drinking vessel and the [...]
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