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We play Paços de Ferreira on Monday. Portuguese cup semi finals, 2nd leg; 2-0W away. There's no need to rest players.

I expect something like this from our part: Artur Maxi Pereira / Luisão / Garay / Melgarejo Enzo Perez / Matic Salvio / Gaitan / Ola John Rodrigo We'll try to have some possession and the usual quickness on the counter. Salvio is back, so probably Gaitan will play behind the striker with a bit more freedom. I'd be satisfied with a draw.

Olhanense 0-2 Benfica in our last game before St James Park. Salvio and Matic scored.

SALVIO -insert masturbation emoticon- 0-1!

Olhanense vs Benfica (20h15) Artur A. Almeida / Luisão / Garay / Maxi Pereira Salvio / Enzo Perez / Matic / Gaitan Lima / Rodrigo Melgarejo suspended. Cardozo on the bench after a bad game against you guys (resting?). Maxi Pereira, Salvio, Enzo and Lima back to the starting 11. Benfica failed to win the last 3 portuguese league games in Olhão. Olhanense snatched a draw in Dragão some weeks ago. We need to win.

Congratulations. Vital 3 points.

Shit, that was close.

Are you scouting us? Many of us are

He only needed to pass the ball there...

Karagounis Some good years here in Lisbon. Newcastle to win 2-1. Good luck.

Rich, what your prediction on away fans? How many seats do we have available? Didn't read anything about that so far here in Portugal. Just curious.

Great to hear broonalegeordie. That guy in the video is quite a character His name is Paulo Parreira. BenficaTV always interviews him before the home games.

Stop saying shit please. You're embarrassing us. Lots of Benfica fans were beaten up as well. It's not exactly the first time cops deserve a lesson for use of excessive force, (this one went to far but they had it coming)

Bastards. Yea, they beaten some fans badly. After the game: http://www.abload.de/img/1nqror.jpg

Newcastle started very well, actually impressed me. Not everyday you see a team controlling at Estádio da Luz, even if for 15 min (more or less). Was expecting a much more defensive attitude, looking at your last performances in EL and the very little I know about Alan Pardew. Cissé is quality, Sissoko as well. And Krul, of course. Great goalie. Regarding Benfica, atrocious first 15min in both halves, but we eventually played some football and I believe it was a deserved win in the end. Half-time, game on.

Should repeat again. Cardozo scores everytime though.

Not sure if serious. Actually feeling bad for Krul, the lad's been immense and now is teammate does this?

Bolded the subs. Maxi Pereira, Enzo Perez, Salvio (injured) and Lima out of the starting 11. It's the usual european team, portuguese league is the main priority. Some rotation but still looking to win. Should be a close game.

He's not one of "the" regular starters. But he does play alot of games, as the team is in three competitions. I believe he'll play, Lima will probably rest. But at this point Lima is superior, no doubt. Not really suprising, as he is a matured player and Rodrigo is still very young.

Player with the most goals for the Spanish u21 squad ever - 14 in 12 games so far. He's struggling to find his place this season with Lima and Cardozo scoring for fun (24 and 27 goals respectively) but he's still young. He'll have to compete with Djuricic as well starting next season. Played for Bolton some seasons ago. As a winger I believe.

Nice to hear many of you are having a good time.

Sold about 3,800 according to reports. Still a good number of supporters.

Oh, not that again.

I fancy your chances. Really, you have 4 clean sheets, your league position means nothing. That's Premier League and this will be a different atmosphere. Individually you have a nice squad. I don't see either team deciding this for good tomorrow. Great signature.

Hopefully this year we'll make it 2 in 4 years. Not perfect, not a disaster either. Porto's been good in Europe as well, Braga was in a Europa league final 2 years ago and even Sporting, who's been miserable this last 3 or 4 years, was in a EL semi final last year beating City in the process. Any dutch team can match that?