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29/04/08 Estrela da Amadora The teams lined up: Vitória de Setúbal: Eduardo, Paulo Roberto, Hugo, Auri, Jorginho, Elias, Sandro, Ricardo Chaves; Bruno Gama (Kim 73), Leandro Branco (Bruno Severino 46), Pitbull.
FC Porto crushed Vitória de Guimarães 5-0
on Sunday, confounding critics who thought they might take their foot off the gas to help fellow northerners in their fight against Sporting and Benfica for the second automatic Champions League spot. An even first half ended all square, but Porto demolished second-in-the-table Guimarães in a half-hour period in the second half with goals by
Bruno Alves, Quaresma (2), Farías and Adriano. The teams lined up: Vitória de Guimarães:
Nilson, Andrezinho, Sereno, Geromel, Momha (Fajardo 72), Flávio Meireles, Moreno (Carlitos 61), Desmarets, Alan, Ghilas, Miljan (Roberto 55), Sporting jumped over Vitória into second with a 2-1 win at home to Marítimo. The
Madeiran side were in front after just two minutes, Anderson Polga and Rui Patrício getting into a mix up and letting in Bruno Fogaça to score with an overhead kick from an acute angle. Then on 19 minutes,
Romagnoli appeared to dive after a mere touch by Gregory, and the Argentinian struck the spot-kick home. The winner came on 53 minutes, Ricardo Esteves attemting to clear, the ball rebounding off Romagnoli
and looping over Marcos, who had slipped, and in. The teams lined up: Sporting: Rui Patrício, Abel, Tonel, Polga, Grimi, Miguel Veloso, Izmailov, Romagnoli, João Moutinho, Yannick
Djaló (Tiuí 45; Simon Vukcevic 61), Liedson (Gladstone 90). At the bottom, Académica ensured their safety with a conclusive 3-0 win at Nacional, where coach Jankovic was booed by the home fans. Cris with two first-half goals and Edgar did the damage. Also safe are Naval, who beat Boavista 1-0 at home with a strike from outside the area from Delfim , who began his career at Boavista. Down are União de Leiria, who had hung on with some good recent results. But Leixões, also in danger of the drop, were too good for them on the day and came away from Leiria with three points from a 3-1 win. Jorge Gonçalves put the visitors ahead in the first minute, while Éder equalised for União on 17 minutes. Two goals in quick succession midway through the second half from Hugo Morais and Castanheira clinched the points for Leixões. It now appears to be a toss-up between Leixões and Paços de Ferreira to see who joins União in the Liga de Honra next season, with Paços favourites for the drop.
27/04/08 After three goal-less Liga games, Benfica returned to their scoring ways to beat Lisbon neighbours Belenenses 2-0
in front of 33,000 at the Luz on Saturday. Brazilian central defender Luisão volleyed in a loose ball following a Rui Costa corner on 41 minutes, while Paraguayan striker Cardozo
curled home an impeccable free kick on 65 to make the result safe. Belenenses had Hugo Alcântara
sent off a quarter of an hour from the end for hitting Katsouranis. Benfica go provisionally into third, a point behind Vitória de Guimarães and two ahead of Sporting. The teams lined up:
Benfica: Quim, Nélson, Luisão, Edcarlos, Léo, Katsouranis, Nuno Assis (Luís Filipe 74), Rui Costa, Cristian Rodriguez (Sepsi 87), Cardozo, Nuno Gomes (Di Maria 63). After the resignation of Manuel Machado, caretaker coach António Caldas saw Sporting Braga win for the first time in five games on Friday, beating struggling Paços de Ferreira 2-1
. Austrian striker Roland Linz put them in front after a quarter of an hour (the 500th goal in the Liga this season), and Fréchaut
extended Braga's lead seven minutes into the second half, with William
pulling one back ten minutes later. The same player had been guilty of a point-blank miss in the first half, and Paços will feel hard done by with a penalty appeal that was turned down for a clear foul on Wesley. Braga move provisionally up to eighth while Paços remain third from bottom. Leixões can go above them if they beat União de Leiria on Sunday. Paços' star player Wesley was replaced near half-time with a serious knee injury.
The teams lined up: Sporting Braga:
Kieszek, João Pereira, Paulo Jorge, Contreras, Carlos Fernandes, Frechaut (Breno 88), Roberto Brum, Stélvio Cruz (Miguelito 43), Jailson, Linz, Wender (Philco 79). Belenenses thrashed rivals for a European place Vitória de Setúbal 5-0 in the last game of the 27th jornada
on Monday. The home side were dominant throughout against a strangely sluggish Vitória, and it was all over within 35 minutes: two goals from Weldon on 18 and 26 minutes and a José Pedro
penalty on 35, after Janício had handled on the line and was sent off, put the game virtually beyond Vitória. João Paulo, on as sub a quarter of an hour from time, got two in the last five minutes. Belenenses go
fifth. The teams lined up: Belenenses:
Júlio César, Amaral (Cândido Costa 72), Rolando, Hugo Alcântara, Rodrigo Alvim, Rúben Amorim (Gomez 72), Rafael Bastos, Silas, José Pedro, Roncatto (João Paulo 76), Weldon. FC Porto
striker Lisandro Lopez seven minutes from the start and ten minutes from the end took his Liga tally for the season to 24 and sank Benfica
in the process. It was not the humiliation of their bitter rivals that 50,000 portistas packed into the Dragão
might have wished for, but the win did take them 24 points ahead of the Eagles in fourth and 20 points ahead of Vitória de Guimarães in second. The teams lined up: FC Porto: Hélton,
Bosingwa, Pedro Emanuel, Bruno Alves, Fucile, Paulo Assunção, Raul Meireles (Bolatti 80), Lucho González, Tarik (Mariano Gonzalez 62), Quaresma (Farías 87), Lisandro López Benfica:
Quim, Nélson, Katsouranis, Luisão, Léo, Binya, Maxi Pereira (Oscar Cardozo 56), Rui Costa, Di Maria (Nuno Assis 86), Cristian Rodriguez, Nuno Gomes (Makukula 78) Benfica
had problems leaving their training ground in Seixal on the way to the match; the police had to intervene with rubber bullets
fired in the air as a handful of disgruntled fans stoned the coach. Just 150 fans from the Benfica claques made the trip north. In the week, Sporting
gave Benfica a two-goal start in the cup semi-final but stormed back to win. At bottom club União de Leiria, they did the same … at least the first part. Paulo César
got two in the first 20 minutes against an unacceptably passive Sporting defence. Sporting piled on the pressure in the second half but União were able to soak it up, and they made it three through N´Gal
, a brilliant back-heel, before Liedson reduced the margin to two again. But they left themselves open to the counter, and sure enough, Cadú
got a fourth on the break. Sougou for União and Derlei for Sporting both saw direct reds in the closing stages. Sporting are now three points off the second automatic Champions League spot, currently held by Guimarães. União can still mathematically be saved, but it will need more miracles.
The teams lined up: União de Leiria: Fernando, Éder Bonfim, Bruno Miguel, Éder Gaúcho, Patrick, Tiago, Cadú (Nélson 94), Harison (Lukasiewicz 77), N'Gal, Paulo César (Alhandra 90),
Sougou. The teams lined up: Boavista: Peter Jehle, Gilberto, Moisés, Marcelão, Ângulo, Diakité, Fleurival (P. Moreira
56), Jorge Ribeiro (L. Loureiro 79), Zé Kalanga, Mateus, Fary (Charles Obi 65) Nacional: Rafael Bracali, Patacas, Ricardo Fernandes, Fernando Cardozo, Alonso, Cléber, Edson Sitta, Juliano
(Juninho 64), Fellype Gabriel (Lipatin 73), Fábio Coentrão (Bruno Amaro 63), Adriano. Paços de Ferreira let a precious two points slip from their grasp at home to Naval, the visitors'
Diego Ângelo equalising in added time to make it 2-2. William had put Paços in front on just three minutes, Marcelinho scored from the spot for his tenth of the season on the half hour, and
Wesley restored Paços lead on the hour with his 12th. Naval's China saw a red card ten minutes from time. Both clubs remain in danger at the bottom of the table. The teams lined up:
Paços de Ferreira: Coelho, Mangualde, Rovérsio, Kiko, Chico Silva, Filipe Anunciação, Pedrinha, Wesley, Edson (Carlos Carneiro 80), Cristiano (Dedé 65), William (Fernando Pilar 91m) Naval:
Taborda, Mário Sérgio, Paulão, Diego Ângelo, China, Bruno Lazaroni, Davide (Dudu 65), Godemeche (Carlitos 80), Marinho, Marcelinho, Igor (João Ribeiro 46) Leixões
remain second from bottom after they were only able to draw 0-0 at home with virtually safe Estrela da Amadora. The teams lined up: Leixões:
Jorge Batista, Ezequias, Joel, Nuno Silva, Filipe Oliveira (João Moreira 84), Nuno Diogo, Hugo Morais, Paulo Machado (P. Cervantes 63), Diogo Valente (Nwoko 71), Jorge Gonçalves, Roberto
Estrela da Amadora: Nelson, Rui Duarte, Wagnão, Hélder Cabral (H. Carreira 46), Maurício, Fernando, Marcelo Goianira, Mateus, Mendonça (P. Pereira 59), Anselmo, Ndiaye (Nuno Viveiro 80) Marítimo thumped Sporting Braga 4-1 in Madeira Saturday. It was Braga who went in at the break 1-0 up, César Peixoto scoring from the spot and Marítimo coach
Sebastião Lazaroni being sent off for words to the ref on the way to the changing rooms. Marítimo stung Braga with four goals in the first 25 minutes of the second half, however: Marcinho, João Luíz
and Márcio Mossoró with two did the damage. Braga's César Peixoto was sent off five minutes from time. The teams lined up: Marítimo:
Marcos, Ricardo Esteves, Gregory, Antoine van der Linden, Evaldo, Olberdam, João Luíz, Bruno, Marcinho (Luís Olim 71), Márcio Mossoró (Anderson 79), Bruno Fogaça (André Pinto 80). Vitória de Guimarães took a large following to Académica on Friday, but the fans had to make do with a 0-0 draw. In any event, the draw puts three points between Vitória and Sporting
in third. The teams lined up: Académica: Pedro Roma, Berger, Orlando, Kaká, Pedro Costa (Tiero 61, Nuno Piloto, Pedrinho, Luís Aguiar, Cris, Miguel Pedro (Ivanildo 64), Lito (Edgar 85).
Vitória de Guimarães: Nilson, Andrezinho, Sereno, Geromel, Momha, Moreno (Fajardo 71), João Alves, Ghilas (Carlitos 76), Alan, Mrdakovic (Roberto 63), Desmarets. Cameroonian striker N´gal scored the only goal of a bad-tempered game to give red lantern União de Leiria a surprise win at Sporting Braga on
Monday. The result postpones União's almost inevitable mathematical relegation for another week. It was just their second win of the season, and they have only now broken into double figures in terms of points. Braga
were booed off the field by their home fans. Sporting leapfrogged over rivals Benfica into third place behind Vitória de Guimarães Sunday with a
2-0 win at home to struggling Leixões, who drop into the second relegation slot. In a poor game, it took two goals from almost identical set pieces to secure the points: Ronny supplied the corners for Tonel
and Liedson to head home on 51 and 59 minutes. Sporting had a Liedson goal disallowed on 37 minutes and played the last 20 with ten men after Ronny saw a second yellow. The teams lined up: Sporting: Rui Patrício, Abel, Tonel, Gladstone, Ronny, Farnerud (Pereirinha 46; Adrien 71), Miguel Veloso, João Moutinho, Izmailov (Pedro Silva 84), Yannick, Liedson. Marítimo
in 7th kept to within two points of Belenenses with a comfortable 3-0 win at Naval. Two Mossoró goals in the first half and one from Anderson
in added time did the trick. Naval had Elivelton sent off five minutes from time. Naval are still in the danger area, just four points above the drop zone. The teams lined up: Naval:
Taborda, Mário Sérgio, Gaúcho (Gilmar 33), Diego, China, Godeméche (Elivelton 45), Delfim, João Ribeiro, Dudu (Carlitos 62), Márinho, Marcelinho Paços de Ferreira
moved out of the zone with an important 2-1 win at Nacional, who remain in ninth but see their already slim hopes of a European place dwindling. Paços were two-up by half-time through Chico Silva
and top scorer Wesley, with Fernando Cardozo pulling one back 20 minutes from time. The teams lined up: Nacional:
Rafael Bracalli, Patacas, Ricardo Fernandes, Fernando Cardozo, Alonso, Edson Sitta (Juninho 55), Halliche, Fellype Gabriel (Rodrigo 27), Juliano Spadacio, Fábio Coentrão, Lipatin (Adriano 63). Champions FC Porto have not taken their foot off the pedal; they travelled to Setúbal Saturday to beat an under-strength Vitória 2-1
for their eighth straight win. They were 2-0 up in a five-minute period halfway through the first half through Lisandro López (his 22nd of the season) and Mariano
González (after a possible handball), while Hugo
pulled one back for Vitória on 37 minutes. The home side deserved an equaliser in a second half in which they piled on the pressure. Their coach, Carlos Carvalhal, rested some key players ahead of the
Taça de Portugal semi-final between the same two clubs on Tuesday at the same Bonfim stadium. The teams lined up: Vitória de Setúbal:
Eduardo, Jorginho (Ricardo Chaves 46), Auri, Robson, Adalto, Elias (46), Hugo, Bruno Ribeiro, Kim (Cláudio Pitbull 58), Filipe, Paulinho.
Earlier in the evening, the other Vitória, de Guimarães, beat old rivals Boavista 1-0
at home to pull three points clear of Benfica in second place. It was a tough fight for Vitória against a combative Boavista, and they could only manage the single goal: on the half hour, Alan found himself free on the left, his cut-back was sent goalwards by João Alves and the ball was turned in from close range by
Mrdakovic. The teams lined up: Vitória de Guimarães:
Nilson, Andrezinho, Sereno, Geromel, Momha, João Alves, Flávio Meireles, Alan (Fajardo 90), Ghilas (Moreno 83), Desmarets, Mrdakovic (Roberto 67). Belenenses are in sixth, just two points now off Vitória de Setúbal, after they won
2-0 at Estrela da Amadora. Rafael Bastos on 12 minutes and José Pedro on 52 got the vital goals. Belenenses receive Vitória de Setúbal next week. The teams lined up:
Estrela da Amadora: Nélson, Rui Duarte, Hugo Carreira, Maurício, Hélder Cabral (Nuno Viveiros 70), Marco Paulo (Pedro Pereira 46), Fernando, Tiago Gomes, Mateus (Celestino 60), Anselmo, Rui Pedro. Benfica lost only their second home game of the season and Académica got only their second away win as Benfica crashed 0-3 against Os Estudantes
from Coimbra. Benfica's giant central defender Luisão got the ball rolling for Académica on just three minutes: he passed back tentatively towards Quim, but Miguel Pedro
latched onto it, rounding the Benfica 'keeper and stroked the ball in. Berger
began to make things look embarrassing for Benfica on the half-hour, beating Nuno Gomes to a Luís Aguiar free kick from the right to head low past Quim's left hand. And on 65, it was Aguiar, on loan from FC
Porto, who took advantage of some more slack defending to rifle the ball home from 10 metres. It was the first time Académica had won at the Luz
in 54 years. Benfica have dropped 18 points at home this season and could now, depending on results, see themselves dropping to fourth in the Liga behind Vitória de Guimarães and Sporting (at home to Boavista and Leixões, respectively).
The teams lined up: Benfica: Quim, Nélson, Luisão, Katsouranis, Léo (Makukula 72), Petit, Binya (Di Maria 41), Rodriguez, Rui Costa, Nuno Gomes (Mantorras 63), Cardozo.
With five games of the Liga still to go, FC Porto clinched the title Saturday, their third in a row, thrashing Estrela da Amadora 6-0 at a packed Dragão. It was practically all over after
just 11 minutes, Lucho González and Sektioui
on target. As Porto have conceded just one goal all season at home, it would have been a miracle if lowly Estrela had been able to pull that back. They weren't, and Quaresma, Maurício (own goal),
Bruno Alves and Lisandro López completed the rout in the second half. The teams lined up: FC Porto:
Helton, Bosingwa (Bolatti 72), Pedro Emanuel, Bruno Alves, Fucile, Lucho, Paulo Assunção (Farias 81), Raul Meireles, Sektioui (Mariano 65), Lisandro, Quaresma
"The crowd were fantastic," gushed coach Jesualdo Ferreira. "We're champions and, with the lead we have over our rivals, we should be happy and proud of our seriousness and competence. For FC Porto, it's
important to keep the players motivated, and that can be only done with objectives and records to be achieved … People have always tried to devalue our merit and competitiveness. Although we play 90% of our games in
Portugal, FC Porto also play abroad, and we continue to dignify Portuguese football and the history of FC Porto. To say that because our opponents couldn't keep up with us has decreased our merit is intellectual
dishonesty." Captain Pedro Emanuel: "I'm very proud to be in this team. More than a club, we're a family. We won this with work and a great sense of solidarity." "We played really well
and, above all, had a really good championship. We're really proud to be Champions again – it's what we fought for. This title feels better than last years because we managed to break some records," said Ricardo
Quaresma. Académica and Vitória de Setúbal slogged out a 0-0
draw in Coimbra, a useful point for both at, respectively, the bottom and top of the table. The teams lined up: Académica:
Pedro Roma, Pedrinho, Kaká, Orlando, Pedro Costa, Nuno Piloto, Miguel Pedro (Joeano 54; Ivanildo 63), Tiero, Luis Aguiar (Fofana 83), Cris, Edgar.
Vitória de Guimarães returned to the second spot in the Liga Friday, but their lead over Benfica, who play Boavista on Sunday, is now only one point after they could only draw 2-2 at
Paços de Ferreira. Desmarets got Vitória's two goals (15 and 75 minutes), giving them the lead twice, but William on the hour and Wesley
on the stroke of time gave Paços a valuable point in their fight against the drop. The teams lined up: Paços de Ferreira:
Peçanha, Mangualde (Furtado 79), Rovérsio, Kiko, Chico Silva, Edson, Pedrinha (Dedé 64), Paulo Sousa, Wesley, William, Cristiano (Fábio Paim 79). FC Porto have sold out their Dragão
Stadium (50,000 plus) for Saturday's game against Estrela da Amadora. A win will give Porto the title, regardless of other results. Vitória de Setúbal reclaimed fourth spot in the Liga Monday with a convincing 3-1 win over Boavista. It was the latter team that went in front on just five minutes, Jorge Ribeiro tucking a free-kick from the right low inside the near post with Eduardo at fault. Boavista were the brighter of the two teams in the first quarter of an hour, but a goal by Bruno Gama on 17 minutes, after some awful defending from the other side, put Vitória level ... and they never looked back. Claudio Pitbull scored a terrific goal on 35 minutes from outside the area, and then scored from the spot on 65 after Luís Loureiro had brought down Elias and seen a red card. Boavista threw everyone forward in the dying minutes to try to claw something back, but the game had slipped out of their grasp. The teams lined up: Vitória de Setúbal:
Eduardo, Janício, Robson, Auri, Jorginho (Adalto 46), Elias, Sandro, Ricardo Chaves, Leandro Branco (Filipe Gonçalves 75), Cláudio Pitbull (Bruno Severino 81), Bruno Gama.
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