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28/08/07Vitória de Setúbal drew 1-1 with Nacional Monday in the final game of the first jornada
. Lipatin put Nacional in front on eight minutes, Vitória equalising ten minutes later through a clearly off-side Paulinho.27/08/07 FC Porto
got revenge for the recent defeat in the Supertaça by beating Sporting 1-0
at the Dragão Sunday. It was a hard-fought, occasionally vicious game, even in terms of possession but with Porto generally the more lucid in attack. Quaresma hit the bar with a trademark free kick in the first half, but the deadlock was only broken on 53 minutes. Sporting 'keeper Stojkovic picked up a back pass from Anderson Polga on the edge of the six-yard box; Lucho González back-heeled the indirect free-kick to
Raul Meireles who crashed his shot through the ruck of Sporting players on the line. The teams lined up: FC Porto:
Helton, Bosingwa, Bruno Alves, Pedro Emanuel, Fucile, Lucho, Paulo Assunção, Raul Meireles (Mariano Gonzalez 67), Tarik (Postiga 46), Lisandro (Bolatti 84), Quaresma.
Sporting:
Stojkovic, Abel (Pereirinha 76), Tonel, Polga, Ronny (Yannick 46), João Moutinho, Miguel Veloso, Romagnoli, Izmailov (Vukcevic 62), Derlei, Liedson.
Porto go top of the table along with Marítimo
, who won comfortably 2-0 at Boavista, still trying to integrate almost a full team of newcomers. Kanu
got the goals, the first a free header at the back post, the second a mazy run from the right with the Boavista defence looking on admiringly. Boavista had two seemingly valid penalty claims turned down, one in each half, and their forward Edgar was sent off for a second yellow.
Estrela da Amadora have got off to a good start with four points from their two games. Their visitors Naval went in front on the half-hour through Marcelinho, but Cardozo
equalised for Estrela before the break. Wagnão and Mateus before the hour was up made it 3-1. Académica and União de Leiria drew 1-1, João Paulo
putting Académica in front early in the second half and Joeano
equalising from the spot on the hour. Hugo Costa saw a second yellow for the foul that gave the penalty, while Académica had been reduced to ten men in the first half with Lito getting a direct red.
Paços de Ferreira and Leixões also drew 1-1, Edson scoring for Paços, Marco Cadete equalising, both goals coming in the second half. 26/08/07 Benfica
dropped another two points on Saturday when they were only able to draw 0-0 with a combative Vitória de Guimarães
at the Luz. Benfica's best chance fell to Nuno Gomes in the first half, but his low shot skimmed just past the right-hand post. Then in the second, a terrific swinging free-kick from Cardozo was palmed away by Nílson. With all natural central defenders injured, Benfica had to field junior Miguel Vítor in the back four, but he did not let the side down.
The teams lined up: Benfica:
Quim, Nelson, Katsouranis, Miguel Vítor, Léo, Nuno Assís, Petit, Rui Costa, Fábio Coentrão (Luís Filipe 70), Nuno Gomes (Romeu Ribeiro 69), Cardozo (Bergessio 81)
Vitória de Guimarães:
Nilson, Sereno, Danilo (Moreno 75), Geromel, Andrézinho, Carlitos (Desmarets 63), Flávio Meireles, João Alves, Fajardo, Alan (Ghilas 54), Mrdakovic Sporting Braga beat Belenenses 2-0. On his
début for the club, Austrian striker Roland Linz was brought down by Devic on 23 minutes, César Peixoto scoring from the spot. On 57 minutes, Vandinho
made it two, tapping in after Costinha had made a double save from Linz and Wender. The teams lined up: Belenenses:
Costinha, Cândido Costa, Devic, Rolando, Rodrigo Alvim, Hugo Leal (Mendonça 46), Ruben Amorim (Rafael Bastos 83), Silas, José Pedro, Fernando (Roncatto 46), João Paulo Oliveira.
Sporting Braga:
Dani, João Pereira, Paulo Jorge, Rodriguez, César Peixoto, Vandinho, Madrid, João Pinto, Hussaine (José Manuel 77), João Tomás (Linz 8), Wender (Jailson, 83). 22/08/07 Naval and
Belenenses drew 1-1 Monday in the last game of the first jornada. Fernando
put the visitors in front ten minutes from time with a free-kick from a full 35 metres, but a minute from time, Naval equalised with a header from Paulão. It was Naval coach Francisco Chaló's first game in the
top tier. 20/08/07 Boavista, with just three faces carried over from last season, ground out a 0-0 draw at União de Leiria
Sunday. The Panthers perhaps had the better of the first half, helped by an active Grzelak on the left and a solid Marcelão in the centre of defence, but in the second half União dominated and had several chances to score, all squandered or blocked. It was the third 0-0 draw of the last three seasons. A further negative aspect of the game was the presence of no more than
500 spectators for União's first home Liga match of the season. The teams lined up: União de Leiria:
Fernando, Éder, Renato, Éder Gaúcho, Laranjeiro, Faria (Toñito 63), Tiago, Cadu da Silva (Alhandra 73), Sougou, Paulo César, Zongo (N´Gal 51).
Boavista:
Carlos, Bruno Pinheiro, Ricardo Silva, Marcelão, Mário Silva, Gilberto, Fleurival, Gajic (Rissutt 46), Laionel (Fary 83), Edgar, Grzelak (Ivan Santos 60).
After Leixões had drawn their opener with Benfica 1-1 Saturday, fellow newcomers Vitória de Guimarães followed suit with a 1-1 draw at home to Vitória de Setúbal. Fajardo
put Guimarães in front on five minutes, but Matheus equalised for Setúbal on 26, and they shut up shop for the rest of the game. 19/08/07 Champions
FC Porto got off on the right foot Saturday with a 2-1 win at Sporting Braga, coached by former Porto captain Jorge Costa. The hero of the day was winger Ricardo Quaresma
with two scorching goals, both from free-kicks: the first, on the half hour, from 25 metres, the second, seven minutes from time, from an angle on the left. Meanwhile, João Pinto
had put Braga level early in the second half with a first time stab at a Vandinho cross from the left. The teams lined up: Sporting Braga:
Dani, João Pereira, Rodríguez, Paulo Jorge (Castanheira 85), César Peixoto, Fréchaut, Vandinho, João Pinto, Hussaín (Zé Manel 63), João Tomás (Jaílson 75), Wender
FC. Porto:
Helton; Bosingwa, Bruno Alves, Pedro Emanuel, Cech, Paulo Assunção, Raul Meireles, Lucho (Leandro Lima 65), Quaresma, Adriano (Hélder Postiga 35), Tarik (Mariano Gonzalez 60)
Benfica
did not have such a happy start against newly-promoted Leixões
at Boavista's Bessa Stadium, borrowed for the occasion. Benfica showed that they are missing Simão Sabrosa (transferred to Atlético Madrid) and Manuel Fernandes (Everton), and it wasn't until two minutes from time that they broke the deadlock,
Petit with a free header at the back post from a Rui Costa corner. But just when Benfiquistas thought the points might be in the bag, the defence lost concentration and deep into added time, the Nigerian
Nwoko, on as sub, had time to hook the ball in from in front of goal. The teams lined up: Leixões:
Beto, Marco Cadete, Elvis, Nuno Diogo, Ezequias, Bruno China, Pedro Cervantes (Hugo Morais 84), Paulo Machado, Jorge Gonçalves (Nwoko 71), Roberto (Tales 77), Vieirinha.
Benfica:
Quim, Nélson, Katsouranis, David Luiz, Léo, Petit, Luís Filipe (Fábio Coentrão 70), Rui Costa, Nuno Assis (Andrés Diaz 90), Nuno Gomes (Bergessio 55), Cardozo. Marítimo
got off to a good start with three points against Paços de Ferreria (3-1) in Madeira. Paços coach José Mota said afterwards that the first half was the worst of his career: Makukula, Ediglé and
Makukula again put Marítimo three up within the first half hour. Dédé pulled one back for Paços five minutes into the second half. Also in Madeira, Nacional drew 0-0 with
Estrela da Amadora. 18/08/07 Sporting got their Liga campaign off to a roaring start Friday with a comfortable 4-1 win over Académica
. Derlei put them in front on 25 minutes with a strike from the edge of the box after a delightful dummy from Vukcevic, and Liedson
headed the second from a free-kick out on the right just before the break. Central defender Tonel scored from a corner on 68 minutes, Gyano
pulled one back for Académica ten minutes from time but then Sporting captain Moutinho made it four for Sportng from the spot after Kaká had fouled Liedson. The teams lined up:
Sporting: Stojkovic, Abel, Tonel, Polga, Ronny, Miguel Veloso, João Moutinho, Romagnoli (Farnerud 71), Vukcevic (Yannick 71), Liedson, Derlei (Adrien 90m).
Académica:
Pedro Roma, Berger (N´Doye 46), Litos, Kaká, Orlando, Tiero, Paulo Sérgio, Cris, Lito, Joeano (Hélder Barbosa,61),Ivanildo (Gyano 46).
Derlei
became only the third player to score for all the Big Three (Benfica, FC Porto, Sporting) after Eurico Gomes and Paulo Futre. 17/08/07
(Front page of sports daily A Bola:
"269 days to show what they're worth") The Liga kicks off Friday with
Sporting v Académica at Alvalade XXI; the game is set to be a virtual sell-out (around 50,000). On Saturday, Benfica play Leixões at
Boavista's Bessa stadium (loaned to Leixões to be able to take the 25,000 expected) and FC Porto visit Sporting Braga, coached by former Porto stalwart Jorge Costa. All the games on the first
jornada: Marítimo v Paços de Ferreira (18/08)
União de Leiria v Boavista (19/08)
Sporting v Académica (17/08)
Sporting Braga v FC Porto (18/08)
Naval v Belenenses (20/08)
Nacional v Estrela da Amadora (18/08)
Vitória de Guimarães v Vitória de Setúbal (19/08)
Leixões v Benfica (18/08) 07/08/07FC Porto
versus Sporting Braga and Leixões versus Benfica on the opening jornada of the new Liga season will be played on 18 August, brought forward from
Sunday because of the Euro 2008 qualifier between Portugal and Armenia on the following Wednesday. |
