The Legendary Fisherman

What a crappy exhibition by Benfica. We still somehow managed a 1-1 draw with Sporting. Now that was incredible.

Portuguese Results today just one match in Liga Nós (Yes new sponsor) Porto beating Moreirense 2-0. Goals by Jackson Martinez (16 goals in 20 Matches man this guy is amazing hope to see him in a better League soon partially because I get scared everytime he plays Benfica) and Brazilian Casemiro. Moreirense once again showing nice Football but Porto is just better. Just gonna say Moreirense is one of the most enjoyable teams to watch in the mid-table. Well tomorrow we have a Lisbon derby the big one Sporting Lisbon - SL Benfica. Great match of course I hope for a Benfica win but we will see. The fact the supposed better teams in the weekend derbys apart from Juventus won makes me a bit nervous. Especially the 4-0 win by Atlético (Good goal by Tiago) on Real. Barça really must take advantage or they will be looking as fools. A last word for Málaga shame on them a 4-1 loss against Levante?! Come on guys! I guess David Barral must be congratulated on a Hat-Trick! Another Portuguese Goal today by young Rony Lopes (City fans you got a good Striker for the future I am glad you are letting him rotate in another good team) in the 2-1 away win against Montpellier. Wolfsburg still second with a 3-0 win against Hoffenheim should be an interesting showdown in two weeks with Sporting for the Europa League (I personally think Sporting won't pass by Wolfsburg) Vieirinha as a Right Back is an interesting adaptation.

Why something tells me we might see Morocco and Algeria maybe even Tunisia joining UEFA after this debacle?

Nearly 20 years performing on the biggest stage in his industry, a couple of world titles and a job behind the scenes for life? Considering most of those World Titles were on the B and C show it would equivalent to win a FA Cup or the Championship. Granted WWE's Kane did win the WWE Championship but that would be like a nomination for Player of the Season in the Premier League.

I am getting more and more impressed by Harry Kane's exibitions. Hopefully his career goes better than the other Kane.

He just did the silly banter.

Some random Tottenham fan.

Odegaard in Real Madrid? Guess Real is already preparing the sucessor to Cristiano. Nice move. Not much market news today here in Portugal since yesterday we had the League Cup but Franco Jara from Benfica is rumoured to move on loan to Greek Champions Olympiakos until the end of the current season. A lot of clubs want the Argentinian Striker who could be a nice signing for a Leicester or Crystal Palace type Squad in my opinion. The Buy-out option for Daniel Opare was revealed to be at €5M so anyone playing Besiktas in the upcoming Winter FM Patch 5M might be managable. This one for James. Tottenham has been reported to have made a €7.8M offer on Algerian Striker Islam Slimani to Sporting. Personally I feel this is a great offer and a very nice buy by the Spurs but Sporting is said to find the offer a bit low. Manchester City is reported to be interested in 17 year old striker Alex Silva who plays for the B Squad of Vitoria de Guimarães. The player just arrived on the club from the Sporting Academy and made his debut against Benfica B seems to have impressed the English Squad. A promising young player who could develop. Still young but hey if City wants him you better believe he could improve.

Not a bad result for the Spurs but maybe it could have been better. Still it is still anyone's game in the 2nd leg.

The reason they qualified badly was because Arrows underpowered the engine during non-race sessions, because of the aformentioned issues with them being extremely unreliable. The late 90's early 00's were great anyways because of the unreliable cars. You couldn't go a race without seeing at least 2-3 of the bigger names having to retire because their car broke down having pushed it too hard. Last season was boring in retrospect, with the Mercedes cars being Germanicly efficient. I agree I found last year's season to be very boring. There were some times when the Williams and Ricciardo tried to chellange them but it was very uncommon. Hopefully this season more teams improve.

And finalist from Group A is Benfica. Really happy as you can guess as we beat Moreirense 2-0 And scored a perfect scorecard 3 victories in 3 matches: Group A 1st SL Benfica 9 PTS 2nd Moreirense 4 PTS 3rd Arouca 3 PTS 4th Nacional da Madeira 1 PT Group C and D have two more Match Days to go though. Sporting lost to Belenenses in Restelo 3-2, Vitoria de Setúbal beat Vitoria de Guimarães 2-0. In the Sporting match well I guess to you Scots the goals were scored by Scotland's Little Messi Ryan Gauld ex-Dundee United. Really talented young player. The standing is as follows: 1st Sporting 6 PTS 2nd Belenenses 5 PTS 3rd Vitoria de Setúbal 4 PTS 4th Boavista 1 pt 5th Vitoria de Guimarães 0 pt Still very open between the two Lisbon teams and my hometown club Vitoria de Setúbal. Finally on Group D Porto and Braga scored a 1-1 draw while Académica scored a suprise win on Rio Ave 1-0: The standings: 1st FC Porto 7 PTS 2nd Sporting Braga 4 PTS 3rd Académica 3 PTS 4th União 3 PTS 5th Rio Ave 0 PT Porto is close to qualify just needs to draw with Académica. Though Academica needs to beat both FC Porto and União to qualify.But man was the match with Braga nasty one red card for each side and both goals were penaltys.

Good to see Eric Dier playing well.

Ah James you are watching it in White Hart Lane?

How are doing Boavista doing rebuilding from the Apito Dourado thing? They are doing nicely with what little budget they have. Currently they are at 13th in the Standings 5 points ahead of relegation. They are also playing the current group stage of the League Cup in Sporting's group. They don't play today though. They also just hired a former Porto player in Slovak Marek Cech.

What an exibition by Courtois! I figure Liverpool might suffer for it in the 2nd Leg. Sorry Tottenham fans but I am rooting for the underdogs. Go Sheffield United!