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31/03/08FC Porto will be Champions if they beat Estrela da Amadora
at the Dragão next weekend. On Sunday they went behind to a Weldon goal at Belenenses, but the other side of half-time, Lisandro López got his 20th
of the season and it was 1-1 until deep into added time, when Ricardo Quaresma invented a foul in the area and Lucho González gave Porto the three points.The teams lined up: Belenenses:
Júlio César, Amaral (Fernando 89), Rolando, Hugo Alcântara, Rodrigo Alvim, Ruben Amorim, Gabriel Gomez, Silas (Rafael Bastos 84), José Pedro, Roncatto (João Paulo Oliveira 79), Weldon.
FC Porto:
Helton, Bosingwa, Pedro Emanuel, Bruno Alves, Fucile, Lucho, Paulo Assunção, Raul Meireles (Kazmierczak 87), Lisandro, Farías (Adriano 67), Quaresma.
Benfica won for the first time at home in the Liga
this year, beating Paços de Ferreira 4-1
to go back to second above Vitória de Guimarães. It was ultimately a comfortable victory, but Paços had caused Benfica enough problems for the score to be a little exaggerated. Cristian Rodriguez
put Benfica in front on 23 minutes with a swerving shot from 25 metres, but Paços' top scorer Wesley
netted from the spot just before the break after Nélson had brought Cristiano down. In the first 20 minutes of the second half, Benfica struggled to regain the upper hand they had had in the first, but a deflected shot from
Cardozo put them back on track. Thirty-six-year-old Rui Costa with a long shot on 74 minutes and then again ten minutes later, a rare header, confirmed the final score. Paços remain second from bottom. The teams lined up: Benfica: Quim, Nélson, Edcarlos, Katsouranis, Léo, Petit, Maxi Pereira (Di Maria 59), Rui Costa, Cristian Rodriguez, Nuno Gomes (Mantorras 79), Cardozo (Binya 86).
Paços de Ferreira: Peçanha, Mangualde, Rovérsio, Kiko, Chico Silva, Filipe Anunciação, Paulo Sousa, Pedrinha, William (Renato Queirós 81), Wesley (Ricardinho 71), Cristiano (Edson 61). Sporting
won by the same margin as their Lisbon neighbours at Naval, winning away for the first time in three months. Sporting were behind on 11 minutes, Rui Patrício dropping a cross at the feet of Marcelinho
. But in a two minute period around the 20-minute mark, Sporting were in front through Miguel Veloso and then Liedson. The latter got his second a quarter of an hour later, and then Yannick
Djaló, back from injury, made it four ten minutes from time. Sporting go provisionally fourth, four points behind Benfica and Vitória de Guimarães. The teams lined up: Naval:
Godeméche, Gaúcho e China; Gilmar e Delfim; Dudu, Davide (João Ribeiro, 46m) e Marinho (Saulo, 70m); Marcelinho.
Sporting:
Rui Patrício, Pereirinha (Abel 59), Tonel, Gladstone, Grimi, Miguel Veloso, Izmailov, Romagnoli (Vukcevic 76), João Moutinho, Liedson, Tiuí (Yannick Djaló 46).
Nacional
climbed into the top half of the table with a 2-0 win at home to bottom club União de Leiria, Juliano Spadaccio scoring from the spot 20 minutes in, and Fábio Coentrão 20 minutes from the
end. Nacional's Cléber was sent off in the first half, União's Harison in the second. The teams lined up: Nacional:
Bracalli, Patacas, Lopes, Cardozo, Alonso, Fellype Gabriel (Rodrigo 79), Edson, Cléber, Juliano, Fabiano (Fábio Coentrão 16), Lipatin (Haliche 46).
União de Leiria:
Fernando, Éder, Bruno Miguel, Hugo Costa (Toñito 52), Patrick, Arvid, Cadu da Silva, Sougou, Harison, Paulo César (Lukasiewicz 76), NGal.
Leixões got a precious point in their fight for survival with a
0-0 draw at Sporting Braga, who will see the gap between them and fifth-placed Setúbal stretched to six points if Vitória can beat Boavista on Monday. Leixões are third from bottom, three points ahead
of Paços. The teams lined up: Sporting Braga:
Kieszek, João Pereira, Rodriguez, Paulo Jorge, Carlos Fernandes, Pablo Contreras (Stélvio 79), Roberto Brum (Frechaut 61), Vandinho (Linz 46), José Manuel, Jaílson, Matheus.
Leixões:
Beto, Filipe Oliveira, Joel, Nuno Amaro, Nuno Silva, Bruno China, Hugo Morais, Jaime (Paulo Machado 56), Jorge Gonçalves (Vieirinha 67), Roberto, Castanheira (Pedro Cervantes 75). 30/03/08 Estrela da Amadora got three valuable points in their fight against relegation on Saturday, beating rivals Académica 3-1. Anselmo started them off on 16 minutes,
Lito equalised for Os Estudantes five minutes later and giant Maurício restored Estrela's lead with a trademark header ten minutes after that, Académica's Vítor Vinha being sent off in the meantime.
Moreno confirmed the win ten minutes from time. The teams lined up: Estrela da Amadora:
Nelson, Rui Duarte, Hugo Carreira, Maurício, Hélder Cabral, Fernando, Celestino (Giancarlo 62), Mendonça (Pedro Pereira 53), Tiago Gomes, Mateus, Anselmo (Moreno 75). Académica:
Pedro Roma, Pedrinho, Orlando, Káká, Vítor Vinha, Paulo Sérgio, Miguel Pedro (Berger 37), Lito, Nuno Piloto (Tiero 61), Luís Aguiar (Ivanildo 65), Joeano. 29/03/08
Vitória de Guimarães went second in the Liga on Friday with a 1-0 home win over Marítimo. Vitória had the best chances in the game, but left it until two minutes from time to take the points
through sub Roberto. The teams lined up: Vitória de Guimarães:
Nilson, Andrezinho, Sereno, Geromel, Momha (Carlitos 77), João Alves, Flávio Meireles, Alan, Ghilas (Fajardo 72), Desmarets, Mrdakovic (Roberto 61).
Marítimo:
Marcos, Briguel, Gregory, Van der Linden, Evaldo, Olberdam, Bruno (João Luiz 75), Mossoró, Marcinho, Fábio Felício (Djalma 74), Bruno Fogaça (Kanu 65). 18/03/08
Sporting and Nacional arrived at half time tied 0-0 in the final game of the 23rd jornada on Monday. In ten crazy minutes early in the second half, however, Sporting
were 4-0 up through Liedson (x 2), Moutinho and Yannick, making his return after injury. Lipatin
got a consolation for a shell-shocked Nacional a minute from time. Romagnoli missed a penalty for Sporting. The result takes Sporting up to 5th, equal on points with Vitória de Setúbal and four points off
the Champions League places (occupied by Benfica and Vitória de Guimarães). The teams lined up: Sporting:
Rui Patrício, Abel, Gladstone, Polga, Ronny, Pereirinha, Adrien, João Moutinho (Farnerud 76), Romagnoli, Liedson, Tiuí (Vukcevic 46).
Nacional:
Bracalli, Patacas, Cardozo, Ricardo Fernandes, Alonso, Edson, Cléber, Juliano, Fellype Gabriel (Juninho 68), Lipatin, Fábio Coentrão (Rodrigo 66).
17/03/08 Benfica
held on to their second place in the Liga Sunday with a 1-1 draw at Marítimo. Showing line up changes at the kick-off, Benfica managed to conceal recent weaknesses in the first half, with Cardozo
heading them in front on 25 minutes. But in the second half, Marítimo were in charge and drew level a quarter of an hour from the end, 20-year-old sub Ytalo
running onto a through ball and prodding past Quim for his first touch and first goal on his début. The teams lined up: Marítimo:
Marcos, Ricardo Esteves (Briguel 50,), Gregory, Van der Linden, Evaldo, Bruno, Olberdam, Marcinho, Mossoró, Fábio Felício (Djalma 62), Baba (Ytalo 73).
Benfica:
Quim, Nélson, Edcarlos, Katsouranis, Léo, Petit, Binya, Luís Filipe (Rui Costa 60), Cristian Rodriguez, Sepsi (Maxi Pereira 71), Cardozo. Lopes put through his own goal after just 33 seconds to give
Sporting Braga the lead over Naval, and Wender and Jailson added to the score to make it 3-0 and keep Braga 6th in the Liga. Mateus and Jorge Ribeiro
put Boavista in front against Estrela da Amadora, both goals coming in the second half. Giancarlo
pulled one back for Estrela, and the Lisbon club had a legitimate call for a penalty, a foul by 'keeper Jehle on Anselmo, turned down. Edson
got one goal midway through the first half and another on the hour to give Paços de Ferreira an unexpected lead over form side Vitória de Setúbal, and despite a late goal by Ricardo Chaves, it was
second-from-bottom Paços who took all three points to keep their hopes of survival alive. 16/03/08 Roberto put Leixões
in front in the second half at home to FC Porto, but the irrepressible Porto found a way back and claimed all three points through Lisandro López and Tarik. The teams lined up:
Leixões: Beto, Nuno Silva (Pedro Cervantes 75), Joel, Elvis, Nuno Amaro, Bruno China, Filipe Oliveira, Castanheira, Jorge Gonçalves, Hugo Morais (Jorge Duarte 63), Roberto (Diogo Valente 78).
FC Porto:
Helton, Fucile, Bruno Alves, Pedro Emanuel, Marek Cech (Kazmierczak 78), Raul Meireles, João Paulo (Tarik Sektioui 55), Lucho Gonzalez, Ricardo Quaresma, Ernesto Farias (Adriano 68), Lisandro Lopez.
Académica drew at home to Belenenses, neither side managing a goal. Belenenses' Cândido Costa, who had scored Boavista's winner with an own goal last
Monday, was again unfortunate, getting a red card on the hour.15/03/08 Vitória de Guimarães jumped to second in the Liga Friday with a 1-0
win at doomed but motivated União de Leiria, who were coming off the back of an excellent draw at the Luz which forced the exit of Benfica coach José António Camacho. Chances were shared in the first half, but
the decisive goal came on 67 minutes, an unmarked Ghilas
at the back post meeting an Alan cross from the right to help Vitória on their way to an increasingly possible Champions League place. The teams lined up: União de Leiria:
Fernando, Éder, Bruno Miguel, Hugo Costa, Patrick, Arvid (Cadu 70), Tiago, Faria (Tonito 65), Harison, N´Gal, Paulo César.
Vitória de Guimarães:
Nilson, Andrezinho, Sereno, Geromel, Momha, João Alves, Flávio Meireles, Alan (Fajardo 82), Ghilas (Moreno 88), Desmarets, Mrdakovic (Roberto 61). 11/03/08
Belenenses missed the opportunity to move into the European places Monday, losing 2-3 at home to an improving Boavista. Belenenses haven't beaten Boavista at home since 1994, but they looked on track
to breaking the fast after a quarter of an hour, Silas
driving through Jehle after the Boavista defence had failed to clear a Rodrigo Alvim cross from the left. Belenenses deserved the lead – Boavista's first shot on goal had come only after ten minutes – but
Jorge Ribeiro's thunderous shot from 25 metres ten minutes later fully deserved to be an equaliser. Then on 38 minutes, the same Ribeiro drove a corner to the back post where Luís Loureiro
rose to crash home a header and put his side in front. There was still time before the break for Belenenses to draw back level, Weldon heading in from a José Pedro corner. The game lost quality in
the second half as legs became tired on the sodden pitch, and the nature of Boavista's eventual winner on the hour was indicative of this: Mateus was freed down the right, and his hopeful, low cross was turned into his
own goal by Cândido Costa. It was Boavista's first away win of the season. The teams lined up: Belenenses: Júlio César, Cândido Costa, Rolando, Hugo Alcântara, Rodrigo Alvim,
Gomez (Marco Ferreira 46), Ruben Amorim (Jankauskas 77), Silas, José Pedro, Weldon, Roncatto (João Paulo 77).
Boavista: Jehle, Rissut, Moisés, Araújo (Bruno Pinheiro 46) Angulo, Fleurival, Luís Loureiro,
Jorge Ribeiro, Zé Kalanga (Gilberto 81), Laionel (Hussaine 60), Mateus. 10/03/08 Ricardo Quaresma got the only goal on the half-hour in FC Porto's 1-0
win over Académica
on Sunday. It could have been more, but the one goal, a swinging shot from the edge of the area that Pedro Roma might have stopped, was enough. Porto's Mariano was sent off on the stroke of time, ten minutes after he had come on as sub.
The teams lined up: FC Porto: Helton, Fucile, Bruno Alves, Pedro Emanuel, Cech, Paulo Assunção, Raul Meireles (Lino 90), Lucho, Tarik (Farias 71), Lisandro, Quaresma (Mariano 80).
Académica: Pedro Roma, Pedro Costa, Orlando, Kaká, Cléber (Lito 75), Paulo Sérgio, Tiero (Ivanildo 46), Nuno Piloto, Joeano, Cris (Miguel Pedro 46), Luís Aguiar.
Benfica drew 2-2
at home to bottom club União de Leiria, prompting the resignation of Spanish coach José António Camacho. União outplayed the home side during long periods, which belied the respective positions in the
Liga. Paulo César put União in front just before the break. Central defender Zoro equalised on 51 minutes, and it all seemed settled five minutes later when Cardozo
put Benfica in front. But a spirited Leiria, who only had their pride to play for, drew level on 70 minutes with an excellent counter attack, Harison putting N'Gal through to round Quim and tuck the ball in. The teams lined up: Benfica: Quim; Luís Filipe, Zoro (Sepsi 73), Edcarlos, Léo, Di María (Nuno Assis 79m), Rui Costa, Bynia, Rodriguez, Nuno Gomes (Mantorras 79), Cardozo
União de Leiria: Fernando, Éder Gaúcho, Bruno Miguel, Hugo Costa, Patrick, Tiago (Lukasiewicz 82), Harison, Arvid, Ngal, Sougou (Toñito 83), Paulo César (Faria 90)
Sporting
were outplayed in front of 27,000 at Guimarães and went down 0-2. Sereno
got the first just before the break, knocking the ball almost accidentally in after Sporting 'keeper Rui Patrício had palmed the ball out to him, and sub Fajardo
finished Sporting off in added time at the end after a smooth counter-attack and a set-up in front of goal from Moreno. Sporting's Grimi was sent off with a straight red five minutes from time.
The teams lined up: Vitória de Guimarães: Nilson, Andrezinho, Sereno, Geromel, Momha, Flávio Meireles, João Alves (Fajardo 90), Alan, Ghilas (Roberto 83), Desmarets, Mrdakovic (Moreno,76)
Sporting: Rui Patrício, Abel (Miguel Veloso 68) Tonel, Polga, Grimi, Izmailov, Adrien (Pereirinha 55), Romagnoli, João Moutinho, Vukcevic, Purovic (Tiuí 7) In the other Liga game of the day,
Naval beat Leixões 2-1, Saulo putting them in front before Roberto
equalised for the visitors. Leixões defender Ezequias was sent off seven minutes into the second half, and Naval clinched all three points through Marcelinho fifteen miutes from time. 09/03/08 Sporting Braga broke a run of eight straight games without a win by beating Nacional 1-0
in Madeira Saturday. In a very even game, it took a free kick from out on the left by José Manuel on 26 minutes, which missed heads and feet near goal before finding its way inside the far post, to break the
deadlock. The nearest Nacional came to equalising was a fierce shot in the second half by sub Fábio Coentrão that rattled the bar. The teams lined up: Nacional:
Bracali, Patacas, Ricardo Fernandes, Cardozo, Alonso, Cléber, Edson, Juliano, Juninho (Lipatin 54), Rodrigo (Adriano 83), Pateiro (Fábio Coentrão (54)
Sporting Braga:
Kieszek, João Pereira, Paulo Jorge, Rodriguez, Carlos Fernandes, Contreras (Frechaut 75), Roberto Brum, José Manuel (Andrés Madrid 66) César Peixoto, Wender (Matheus 58), Jaílson Anselmo got
Estrela da Amadora's goal in a 1-0 win at home to Paços de Ferreira, who remain firmly rooted second from bottom. 09/03/08 Vitória de Setúbal
went provisionally third with a 1-0 win over Marítimo on Friday. Cláudio Pitbull scored from the spot on 77 minutes after Bruno had brought Sandro down in the box.
The teams lined up: Vitória de Setúbal: Eduardo, Janício, Robson, Auri, Jorginho, Elias (Filipe Gonçalves 89), Sandro, Ricardo Chaves, Bruno Gama (Bruno Severino 60), Kim (Leandro 46), Cláudio Pitbull.
Marítimo: Marcos, Ricardo Esteves, Ediglê, Van der Linden, Evaldo, Djalma, Bruno, Olberdam, Fábio Felício (João Luiz 79), Mossoró (Marcinho 84), Kanu (Baba 78). 04/03/08
Paços de Ferreira went one-up through William on ten minutes at home to Belenenses on Monday, but their momentum was dealt a damaging blow on 20 when Rovérsio
was sent off for bringing down Rocatto in the box; José Pedro scored from the spot. Peçanha
put through his own goal five minutes from half-time to hand Belenenses all three points. Paços remain in terrible trouble, second from bottom. The teams lined up: Paços de Ferreira:
Peçanha, Ferreira (Pedrinha 53), Rovérsio, Kiko, Chico Silva, Dedé (Carlos Carneiro 70), Paulo Sousa; Edson, Wesley, Cristiano, William (Luiz Carlos 30).
Belenenses:
Júlio César, Cândido Costa, Rolando, Hugo Alcântara, Rodrigo Alvim, Gomez (Marco Ferreira 81), Ruben Amorim, José Pedro, Silas, Weldon (Jankauskas 72), Roncatto. 03/03/08
Sporting and Benfica drew 1-1 Sunday in the Lisbon derby in front of around 40,000. Sporting got off to a roaring start and were smothering a disorganised Benfica, especially down the left, and after
Vukcevic headed home on ten minutes, Sporting fans might have thought that a thrashing was on the cards. Slowly but surely, however, Benfica began to come round, culminating in a Cardozo
header from a Rui Costa corner on 38 minutes. It was the way the score finished, but it might have been a different story if Cardozo, for an elbow in Tonel's face, and Katsouranis, for a karate kick on João Moutinho, had been sent off. A quarter of an hour from the end, Benfica did have a player sent off, Nélson going for a two-footed lunge at Celsinho. Earlier, Vukcevic appeared to have been fouled inside the penalty area by Léo, but nothing was given. Sporting, then, may have some reason to complain about
Paulo Paraty's refereeing, but the fact is that they did not take advantage of their early dominance and the numerical superiority for the last 15 minutes and thus remain five points off their Lisbon rivals,
slipping into fifth place behind FC Porto, Benfica, Vitória de Guimarães and Vitória de Setúbal. The teams lined up: Sporting:
Rui Patrício, Abel (Purovic 77), Tonel, Polga, Grimi, Pereirinha, Miguel Veloso, João Moutinho, Izmailov (Celsinho 69), Tiuí, Vukcevic.
Benfica:
Quim, Nélson, Edcarlos, Katsouranis, Léo, Maxi Pereira, Binya, Di Maria (Sepsi 74), Rui Costa (Luís Filipe 90), Cristian Rodriguez (Zoro 87), Cardozo.
Estrela da Amadora's towering central defender
Maurício put them in front at Marítimo
with a first-half header from a corner. Estrela were reduced to ten just before half-time, Mendonça going for allegedly hitting Ricardo Esteves. Marítimo managed a second-half equaliser from the spot through Bruno
. It was a day of 1-1 draws because that's how the other game, Naval at home to Nacional, finished. Juliano scored a penalty just before the break, while Marcelinho
gave Naval a point in the second half. 02/03/08 FC Porto travelled across town to a pleasantly well-filled Bessa (20,000 +) to draw 0-0 with
Boavista
Saturday. Porto rested most of their first team side and, perhaps because of this, Boavista produced some of their best football of the season. While there were no goals, Ricardo Quaresma, on as sub in the second half and playing in a central midfield role, did rattle the crossbar with a dipping shot that had Peter Jehle beaten.
The teams lined up: Boavista: Peter Jehle, Gilberto Silva, Moisés, Marcelão, Brayan Angulo, Fleurival, Diakité, Jorge Ribeiro (Bruno Pinheiro 87), Zé Kalanga (Luís Loureiro 78), Laionel
(Hussaine 67), Mateus.
FC Porto:
Helton. Fucile, Stepanov, João Paulo. Marek Cech. Lucho Gonzalez (Ricardo Quaresma 46), Paulo Assunção (Raul Meireles 77), Kazmierczak. Mariano Gonzalez. Adriano, Farias (Tarik Sektioui 70).
In front of just 725 spectators at União de Leiria, Claudio Pitbull on nine minutes and Bruno Gama on 74 put Vitória de Setúbal into fourth in the Liga, above Sporting.
Leixões went in front against Académica from the spot, Roberto striking home a penalty on 19 minutes. Five minutes later, Joeano
diverted a shot in for Académica's equaliser, and the same player put Académica in front on the hour. Leixões had a second penalty just before the final whistle, this time scored by Jorge Gonçalves, which gave
them a point. 01/03/08 In the Minho derby, Sporting Braga and Vitória de Guimarães opened the 21st jornada with a 0-0
draw Friday. The teams provided a good spectacle for a full house at Braga's AXA Stadium, but the nearest either came to a goal was through Braga's Linz, who hit a post early in the second half. Braga have not won in the last eight
Liga games, while third-place Guimarães put two points between themselves and Sporting, who play Benfica on Sunday. The teams lined up: Sporting Braga:
Kieszek, João Pereira, Paulo Jorge, Rodriguez, Miguelito, Roberto Brum, Contreras, José Manuel (Matheus 57), César Peixoto (Stélvio 70), Wender (Jailson 78), Linz.
Vitória de Guimarães:
Nilson; Andrezinho, Sereno, Geromel, Desmarets, Flávio Meireles, João Alves, Carlitos (Roberto 70), Ghilas (Fajardo 79), Alan, Mrdakovic (Momha 61). |
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