The SL Benfica Thread [2006-2007]

[sl benfica]

!!

i hope they dogs at least get a draw so they can get some points for romania

Zero point for Romania, since S. Bucarest lost also, and to top that Portugal passes Germany in the UEFA ranking

 

[::shinji::]

I'm glad about the PSG draw.. I think we're pretty equal and we'll have lots of support in Paris.

 

[darth vader]

I'm glad about the PSG draw.. I think we're pretty equal and we'll have lots of support in Paris.

PSG-SLB will be for thousands of portuguese who live and work in france the game of the year, and certainly one of the most expected games of the decade.

i remember when benfica played parma in the cup winners's cup semi final back in 1994, psg was playing arsenal in the other semi final. i was working in paris then, and i can assure you that before the semi final draw, every portuguese fan was hoping to get PSG in the semi final so they could see the game in paris. after the draw there was the hope of having a PSG-SLB final, but infortunately, neither psg or benfica was qualified. that was too bad because both had fantastic teams then. we had rui costa, joao pinto, isaias, yuran, kulkov, schwarz, mozer, and that season some of the most memorable games (3-3 against porto, 6-3 against sporting, 4-4 against leverkusen, 2-1 against parma...). in the other hand psg had their best team ever, always playing for the french title, with some great european results too (they won real madrid twice, and barça, and won the cup winners's cup in 1995, if i'm right) and had great players too like weah, ginola, le guen, lama, ricardo gomes, rai, djorkaeff (i can be mistaken about one or another player for that season, but they played in psg in those years).

now psg certainly isn't so good like it was then, neither benfica (in my opinion). but there is a lot of excitement about this game in paris. my parents live in france and use to support psg, but not this time ! they will see the game for sure in the parc des princes (i hope that the game will be in the stade de france, but don't believe in it)
i am myself very tempted to go to paris and see this game: the club of the city where i was born against the club of my heart! i just can't wait to see the stadium full of benfica and portuguese fans!

about our chances against psg, i think it's clearly the worst moment of the season to play against them: they are having very good results since le guen is managing the team, and they are improving, but if we play as we can do, with "garra", like we did against boavista, and with more luck, we will have pretty good chances to go through.

 

[RuiCosta_10]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=h7q5sIspj9A

 

[darth vader]

hey, rui costa, funny video there! simao make me laught many times. just after the game against paços de ferreira, the reporter asked him something like: "you scored today and you're now at the same number of goals as postiga". at the same time, simao was correcting him, saying with a proud smile in his face, something like: "they were two! i scored twice". like the reporter didn't noticed it! and then he changed his arguments with the usual crap "the most important is the result, the team, etc." . sometimes simao looks just like a kid

 

[RuiCosta_10]

hey, rui costa, funny video there! simao make me laught many times. just after the game against paços de ferreira, the reporter asked him something like: "you scored today and you're now at the same number of goals as postiga". at the same time, simao was correcting him, saying with a proud smile in his face, something like: "they were two! i scored twice". like the reporter didn't noticed it! and then he changed his arguments with the usual crap "the most important is the result, the team, etc." . sometimes simao looks just like a kid

yeah, specially when he does the "beicinho" after missing a play or something :funny:

 

[darth vader]

YES!!!

i've finally got tickets for psg-benfica! i will fly to paris next week and see the game! back in the city where i was born and grown up!!!

unfortunately, the tickets i've got aren't with the benfica fans... i will have to watch the game in the middle of psg supporters. i hope there will be no problem. after all. i'm pretty sure there will be a lot of portuguese fans out of "benfica's tribune".

i hope benfica will do a good game and most of all a good result!

FORÇA BENFICA!!!

 

[::shinji::]

congrats man, should be a great game. I'm confident we can get past PSG..

 

[Moreira_Benfica]

yea me to, i think we have a great chance in even winning the UEFA cup (sevilla, spurs, us) are the favourite's IMO. btw darth that sounds great man and im sure they wont cause a problem unless you talk smack about the team

 

[darth vader]

i am confident too, IF benfica plays with lots of "garra" and we have just a little dose of luck (after the game against boavista, i think we deserve plenty of it until the end of the season!!) but if in one of the 2 legs we play like we did against varzim or bucarest at home (what i call "the lazy benfica") i don't know...

força benfica!

 

[::shinji::]

FACT:

Derlei has been a monumental flop since arriving, we would have been a lot better served if we'd kept Kikin.

 

[RuiCosta_10]

FACT:

Derlei has been a monumental flop since arriving, we would have been a lot better served if we'd kept Kikin.

true, there's some other things i'd like to say:

1. Not putting David Luiz playing against Aves was a huge mistake, as if the fact of the coach and tecnical staff doesn't trust him wich was bad to his confidence, wasn't enough, he also wouldn't have an easier game until the end of the season to play and to adapt to the team. So, he starts with some circustances that weren't any good, playing an European game, with a good team, in a great environment of the opposite fans, with lots of pressure, still had a positive game though.

2. Luisão is incredibly important to our team. A true leader!

3. Anderson once again proves my point, he sucks, he sucks, he sucks! He's damn slow, can't make a decent pass, and he shaked even more than David Luiz during the whole ******* game, while David Luiz made a good second half.

4. I'm pissed, we had it controled, and because we looked a completely mediocre team after Luisão injury we will now have difficulties at home when we should do it easily, specially after that first 30 minutes.

5. Second half was completely ****, we made absolutely nothing apart from the first 5/10 minutes.

I still think we can make it at home, and i think we are better than PSG and should do it without any big problem, i'm just pissed because of our attitude.

 

[RuiCosta_10]

i don't know what do you guys think, but imo David Luiz made an excelent game last night.

Pretty fast, antecipating many times, concentrated, pretty strong and played with "muita garra", hope it's not just one game, he should take Anderson place continuing playing like he did.

 

[Tiago_10]

i don't know what do you guys think, but imo David Luiz made an excelent game last night.

Pretty fast, antecipating many times, concentrated, pretty strong and played with "muita garra", hope it's not just one game, he should take Anderson place continuing playing like he did.

Yeah, I was well impressed with him too. He's 19 or so, having a good margin to progress.

Let's see his next games, but for now he seems a good option for the future.

 

[NightCrawler]

His he on a loan or something or did we buy him? I heard something on a loan with an influence of a Benfica player, didn't get that story straight.

Anyway he seems pretty good so far and he played in 2 difficult games, if we didn't buy him already we should...

 

[RuiCosta_10]

he's on loan until the end of the season, we payed a small amount of money for the loan.

We have the option of buying him, apparently we will buy 50% of his passe for 1 000 000 €.

 

[3m1n3m]

Lets revive this joint bros! I'll give you some topics:

- Zoro and Coentrão are the first new faces jumping on board next season. Nuno Assis will be back from it's "not signing for Porto"... ups, drugs ban.

- Miguel Rosa, Miguel Vitor, Sami and Romeu Ribeiro are called-up for the USA tour, and could be on the verge of being promoted to the main squad, aswell as Chinese prodigy Yu Dabao.

- Our coach is zero.

 

[RuiCosta_10]

Lets revive this joint bros! I'll give you some topics:

- Zoro and Coentrão are the first new faces jumping on board next season. Nuno Assis will be back from it's "not signing for Porto"... ups, drugs ban.

- Miguel Rosa, Miguel Vitor, Sami and Romeu Ribeiro are called-up for the USA tour, and could be on the verge of being promoted to the main squad, aswell as Chinese prodigy Yu Dabao.

- Our coach is zero.

Zoro and Coentrão seems like good buys, even though Zoro will win a lot per month i consider that those that are expensive are Moretto, Marco Ferreira, Beto, Manú, Karyaka, etc...

I doubt Rosa, Miguel Vitor and Romeu will be promoted already, they are first year juniors.

Probably only Dabao, Jeremic and Nuno Ferreira will have a chance, and maybe Patafta, but in the last one i don't have many hopes.

They just aren't in the call up because they are all injured, except for Nuno Ferreira.

One more year seeing the others celebrating

FORÇA BENFICA!

 

[Tiago_10]

I think Zoro and Coentrão are good buys.

Just hope Simão stays and we get rid of those players César said: Moretto, Beto, Marco Ferreira, etc. it's just wasting money.. Instead of buying Manú and Paulo Jorge, for instance, we could've gone for a good winger, and so on.

I'd also like to see some of our younger players having a chance on the first team, for a change. But not like the João Coimbra situation, playing only 2 minutes per game, that's absurd. Which leads me to Fernando Santos who, like Eminem said, is zero. Truth is with this coach it's difficult for me to be looking forward to the next season.

Oh and of course I'd love to see Miccoli staying (if he retains his current injury-free form) but that's hard to happen, I know.

 

[::shinji::]

yeah I'm a bit worried about FS staying in charge, there doesn't seem to be any rumours about him leaving and Rui Costa and Miccoli have said positive things about him. This leads me to beleive he's staying..

What's so annoying about this season is that when you look back, there were so many opportunities to gain points that we wasted... like if only we had scored at home in that cursed game against Boavista, we'd be champions right now