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It might come down to David Silva, Essien, Maicon and a left-back (can't think of any who's name is not Ashley Cole, who I don't think would fit there)

Left and center back, another winger? As long as they are far away from David Luiz I can't care less... Oh and if they pay the 40M€ for Di Maria I'll be even happier.

Like he needs to buy Lampard, or Ashley Cole... Essien I believe he would try to get. That's the kind of player he loves.

He is simply the best coach in the world, so if anyone can succeed on Madrid is him.

Diego Forlan is just... AWESOME!

What a pass for Forlan. Awesome! Good game so far from both sides...

José Mourinho

Sporting lost at Alvalade (their stadium) agains CSKA on the UEFA Cup final in 2005.

Good game. We were awful at defense tonight. We missed having Luiz at center. We also missed Saviola in both matches. Good luck for the rest of this cup.

I thought he saw a foul on our keeper. But for the ref to allow it...

But I really think the ref messed up with the first goal...

That pass was awesome.

Games yours, after that screwy first goal we are all messed up.

Scotland has like two good teams and even those two fail to make anything of note in Europe. They had two UEFA Cup finals in the last ten years and not much else. I don't remember seeing either of them going through the groups in the Champions League. We've had teams doing good campaigns in Europe since Porto won the UEFA cup. That year we also had Boavista in the semi-finals. Besides Porto winning the UEFA cup and the Champions League, Sporting went to the UEFA cup finals, we've had at least a team at the Quarter-finals of either the CL or Uefa cup almost every year for the last ten years. I understand what you meant but you are plain wrong. We are more at the same level as the French/Dutch. I'm having no joke. In December we beat Porto with half of our starting eleven. We even had some reserves play in that game. The same Porto that a few weeks before went toe to toe with Chelsea in the Champions League. We completely obliterated Everton at home. Of course we would most probably lose to Barcelona, Real Madrid or Inter, but we could very well go toe to toe with Chelsea or Man. Utd., and Liverpool could have a really bad time against us. To be honest I don't believe we will go through. We are on a very bad streak of games (Braga, Liverpool,Naval,Liverpool, Sporting), and as I have said before we are losing gas.

You really want to compare the Scottish League to the Portuguese League? Speak of living in a bubble! Rangers were knocked out of the Champions League by Kaunas...

I really can't understand all the whining from the Liverpool fans about that game, besides a case of bad losing. Luisão should not by any means be sent off by that tackle to Torres. He tried to get to the ball, Torres protected the ball. Was it a bad tackle? Yes, but not like he went right to the leg. David Luiz could have been booked by constant fouling, but his first yellow card was just plain stupid. Yellow card because he kicked the ball? On the other hand, Torres should have been booked to for constant diving and whining (I love Torres but he is as much a great player as a big diver), Insua should have been out at the first penalty as he had already been booked and should got his second yellow card there, Cardozo got kicked in an obvious foul, which would be a penalty but the ref passed on that, and you can't really argue about the second penalty. He had no other purpose to have his hand there than to cut the passing angle. Reina had been wasting time since the first minute, even if in that particular time he hadn't been wasting that much (even through he took like ten more seconds to kick the damn ball after given the second order to do it). The only thing I agree with you was the Babel sent-off. Bit harsh there, but the rules are with the ref there who may have seen it as violent behavior. About Benfica being one of the top 5 teams right now, it's a bit too much. Until December I would say so, but we are losing gas every week. See Cardozo. In another night he could have scored two/three more goals there with all the chances he had, and Liverpool would have suffered the same fate Everton did, but you see them tired. We also miss the energy Saviola had in the beginning of this season and Aimar isn't doing great too (hell most fans have been preferring Martins).

We were a bit unlucky but I can see us going through with Brazil. It would be fan-dabi-dozi to be 1st on our group and avoid Spain, but that's just... I think you're either underestimating us or just wishing not to get you arses handed to us in the knockout rounds like in 2004/2006.

Stop playing in rookie difficulty and showing off in every single forum you are registered:w00t:.