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Boavista secured their first Liga win of the season Monday against old rivals Vitória de Guimarães . The Black Panthers were 2-0 up within a quarter of an hour, Fary netting on two mintes, Radanovic putting through his own goal on 13, both from low curling free kicks by Jorge Ribeiro out on the left. But Boavista let Vitória back in the game: sub Felipe headed in on 21 minutes, and another sub, Targino, equalised on 67 minutes. But a last desperate assault by Boavista had Marcelão heading another Ribeiro free kick back across the goal for captain Ricardo Silva to tap in from close range. FC Porto kept the four-point buffer between themselves and second-placed Benfica with a 2-0 win over difficult Vitória de Setúbal Sunday. Top scorer Lisandro López got the first after just five minutes, finishing off a chain of passes down the middle of the pitch, and Ricardo Quaresma finished Vitória off with a swinging drive from outside the box on the right that beat Eduardo high at the near post. The teams lined up: FC Porto:
Helton, Bosingwa, Pedro Emanuel, Bruno Alves, Marek Cech, Lucho Gonzalez, Paulo Assunção (Kazmierczak 86), Raul Meireles (Farías 86), Tarik Sektioui (Mariano Gonzalez 63), Lisandro Lopez, Ricardo Quaresma. Paços de Ferreira
moved away from the relegation zone with a 1-0 win over Nacional, Wesley netting after just seven minutes. João Ribeiro also gave his team, Naval, an early lead at Marítimo, this
time on four minutes, and it was enough to secure a valuable three points for the side from Figueira da Foz. Belenenses and Estrela da Amadora drew 0-0
in an unventful game at the Restelo Stadium: Estrela set out their stall for a 0-0 draw and went home happy ... unlike the few hundred that braved the chill November evening to watch the spectacle. Liga action returned this weekend after a lay-off for international matches, and it was Benfica that lost no time in setting the bar. A 3-1 win at Académica put them within one point of top team FC Porto, who receive Vitória de Setubal Sunday. It was the Coimbra side that went in front, Lito scoring on 25 minutes following an N'Doye free-kick. Benfica equalised ten minutes later, Rui Costa netting from 25 metres following a di Maria freee-kick. It was even-stevens until the last five minutes when poor goalkeeping by Ricardo let in Luisão, with a neat back-heel, and sub Freddy Adu to make the final, rather exaggerated scoreline. The teams lined up: Académica:
Ricardo, Nuno Piloto, Litos, Kaká, Pedro Costa, Paulo Sérgio, Pavlovic (Hélder Barbosa 88), Lito, N´Doye, Ivanildo (Miguel Pedro 46), Vouho (Joeano 59). The teams lined up: Sporting
, meanwhile, dropped more points in relation to their main rivals, only managing a 1-1 draw at Leixões. They left it until the last five minutes to salvage something,
Purovic netting to save more vivid blushes after Abel
had put through his own goal after a quarter of an hour. Sporting are now six points behind Lisbon rivals Benfica and could be ten points behind FC Porto, depending on Sunday's result. Leixões:
Beto, Filipe Oliveira, Nuno Silva, Elvis, Ezequias, Jorge Duarte (Nwoko 63), Bruno China, Jorge Gonçalves, Pedro Cervantes (Vieirinha 70), Hugo Morais, Roberto (Vinicius 82). On Friday, União de Leiria and Sporting Braga
could not get beyond a 0-0
draw, the fourth in 15 meetings between the two teams. Bottom club União have scored just five goals all season, and here striker Jõao Paulo hit a post and had a penalty saved by Paulo Santos. Braga themselves had the ball in the net twice, both times disallowed for offside. It was not a famous début for new coach
Manuel Machado after the 3-0 defeat of Sporting two weeks ago under caretaker António Caldas. Marítimo won the Madeiran derby Monday, beating Nacional 2-0 at Nacional's hillside stadium. Giant striker Makukula got the first on 25 minutes, with Wénio scoring the second on 65. Marítimo are in 6th place, one point behind Sporting and Vitória de Setúbal, while Nacional are 9th. The teams lined up: Nacional:
Diego, Patacas, Ricardo Fernandes, Ávalos, Igor Pita, Juliano, Cléber, João Coimbra, Juninho (Adriano 82), Lipatin (Cássio 67), Edu Sales (João Moreira 46). The opening game of the 11th jornada
on Friday threw up a 0-0 draw between União de Leiria and Sporting Braga. It was new coach Manuel Machado's first full game in charge of Braga, who are 7th, while União remain planted at the bottom of the table with just four points from 11 games.
Sunday threw up quite surprising results involving the Big Three. Top team FC Porto were two up at Estrela de Amadora, with goals from Lisandro López and Raul Meireles, and appeared to be cruising to victory before a disastrous final five minutes. First Porto goalkeeper Hélton charged out of his goal to punch away a long free-kick but was beaten to the ball by towering central defender Maurício, the ball looping in. Then Porto's central defender Stepanov tugged Jermiah's shirt, Mateus netting from the spot. The teams lined up:
Estrela da Amadora: Nélson, Rui Duarte, Wagnão, Maurício, Hélder Cabral, Marco Paulo, Marcelo Goianira (Mateus 46), Tiago Gomes, Vítor Moreno (Ndiaye 72), Anselmo, Yoni (Jeremiah 46).
The two points dropped (for the second week in a row) allow Benfica to move to within four points of the top team. Boavista, playing their best football of the season, gave the Lisbon side a good run for
their money in a balanced first half, although it was Benfica who went in one up, Cardozo scoring from close range after some good interplay from Rui Costa and Nuno Gomes. Boavista were shaken on 55 minutes
with a red for a second yellow to Zé Kalanga, but they were also stirred into a response, Jorge Ribeiro equalising after a magnificent run down the left by Mateus. Maxi Pereira on the hour and
Cristiano Rodriguez five minutes later put Benfica two in front, with sub Laionel hitting the post for Boavista on 80. That would have made it 3-2, but then came the collapse::a minute later, a Ricardo Silva
own-goal made it 4-1, and two more from Nuno Gomes
in the last five minutes, one from the spot, made it 6-1. Sub Bergessio had the chance to make it 7-1 from the spot, but Jehle, making his Liga début for Boavista this season, dived to his right to save. The result
was an exaggerated reflection of what had happened on the pitch, but even so, Boavista coach Jaime Pacheco
offered his resignation. The club, equal second from bottom, is, however, going through a change of presidency, and no decision on Pacheco's future is likely to be taken in the very near future. The teams lined up:
Benfica: Quim, Luís Filipe, Luisão, Katsouranis, Léo, Maxi Pereira (Di Maria 68), Binya, Rui Costa (Romeu Ribeiro 86), Cristian Rodriguez, Nuno Gomes, Cardozo (Bergessio 77). Sporting came undone in Braga, going down 3-0
to the local Sporting. Fréchaut headed Braga in front on 25 minutes, and a three-minute spell around the hour mark finished Sporting off: Linz prodded in from close range and Jorginho
crashed home a brilliant half volley at the back post from a corner. Sporting's woes were compounded five minutes from time with a red for Tonel after a nasty high challenge on João Pinto. The result leaves Sporting fifth, eight points behind Porto.
The teams lined up: Sporting Braga: Paulo Santos, João Pereira, Rodriguez, Paulo Jorge, Carlos Fernandes, Frechaut, Roberto Brum, Jorginho, José Manel (Stélvio 60), Linz (João Pinto 85), Wender (Hussaine 71).
Vitória de Setúbal
's excellent season continues, this time the team winning 3-1 at home to Académica. Matheus, Elias and Cláudio Pitbull (a pennalty) got Vitória's goals, Fofona
getting a consolation for Os Estudantes. Naval took advantage of bottom club União de Leiria's abysmal form (just three points from ten games) to win 1-0, Marcelinho
scoring from a free kick. It was Vítor Oliveira's first game in charge of União after Paulo Duarte's exit. On Saturday, Vitória de Guimarães could only draw 0-0 at home to battling Paços de Ferreira
, desperately in need of points. Even so, Vitória, newly promoted, are third in the Liga. Belenenses and Leixões drew 1-1 on Friday. In-form José Pedro
put Belenenses in front on four minutes, and it wasn't until near the end that sub Nwoko equalised for the visitors. With the Liga going into a forced break for international football
(with the Madeiran derby, Nacional v Marítimo, still to play), the table looks like this: 1. FC Porto 26 points from 10 games Vitória de Guimarães climbed to fourth in the table, on equal points with Sporting and seven points behind FC Porto at the top, after a bad-tempered 1-0 win in Madeira against Marítimo. The Marítimo captain Bruno saw a direct red on 33 minutes after he lashed out at his opposite number Flávio Meireles, and the Maarítimo coach Sebastião Lazaroni was sent off just before the break after continuosly protesting the referee's decisions. Sub Ghilas it was who got the goal on 70 minutes that gave Vitória all three points. The teams lined up: Marítimo:
Marcos, Ricardo Esteves, Ediglê, Van der Linden, Evaldo, Bruno, Olberdam; Kanu (Bruno Fogaça 86), Marcinho (Wénio 36), Mossoró (Luís Olim 83), Makukula Sporting put four past Naval Sunday in a 4-1 win that brings them to seven points behind FC Porto. Moutinho put Sporting in front on ten minutes, with Diego heading Naval level on 28. On the hour, Liedson put Sporting back in front with an excellent goal from nothing, curled in from the edge of the area. Naval 'keeper Taborda was sent off seven minutes later for bringing down Liedson, but Moutinho allowed substitute 'keeper Wílson Júnior to save the spot kick. Sporting added two in the last five minutes through Vukcevic and Gladstone. Boavista and Setúbal played out one of two 3-3 draws. Boavista were 2-0 up within 25 minutes through Fleurival and Jorge Ribeiro, but Pitbull pulled one back in added time of the first half. Auri levelled for Vitória on 57, and Edinho gave them the lead on the hour. Marcelão fluked the equaliser for Boavista on 71. Académica and Estrela da Amadora played out the other. Lito got a hat-trick for Académica, the first by any player this season, with Maurício, Anselmo and Wagnão getting the visitor's three. União de Leiria stayed at the bottom after a 1-3 home defeat to Nacional, Spadacio, Juninho and Fellype Gabriel scoring for the Madeiran side. Paulo César got a consolation in the last minute. The result was the last straw for União coach Paulo Duarte, who handed in his resignation after the game. Benfica beat Paços de Ferreira 2-1 away on Saturday to go second in the Liga, taking advantage of FC Porto's slip-up on Friday to move to within six points of the leader. Cristian Rodríguez put the Eagles in front on 21 minutes, Tiago Valente equalised eight minutes later and Katsouranis got the winner four minutes from time. The crisis at Sporting Braga continues. After a week that saw the sacking of coach Jorge Costa, they went down 0-3 at Leixões, the Matosinhos team's first win of the season. Roberto and Bruno China gave them a two-goal lead going into the break, and Jorge Gonçalves made it three a quarter of an hour from time. FC Porto's eight-match run of consecutive wins was cut short Friday when they could only draw 1-1 at home to a well organised Belenenses. Porto's game was affected by the injury to captain Lucho González on 10 minutes, but they went in front on 20, a fortuitous block by Paulo Assunção falling for Hélder Postiga (in an off-side position) to net his first Liga goal of the season. Five minutes into the second half, however, José Pedro broke through and flicked past the oncoming Helton, and from that point on, Porto increasingly lost their calm as a certain desperation set in over the continuation or not of their run. They did have chances, notably through Bruno Alves from set pieces and top scorer Lisandro López, but the scoreboard stayed the same till the end. The teams lined up: FC Porto:
Helton, Fucile, Stepanov, Bruno Alves, Cech, Paulo Assunção, Raul Meireles, Lucho (Leandro Lima 10, Tarik 60), Quaresma, Lisandro, Hélder Postiga (Adriano 71). |
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