Sporting C.P. vs. S.L. Benfica: Liga Sagres - 20ª jornada 2/20/11 [R]

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Liga Sagres - Round 20

Date: Monday, February 20th

Time: 3:15 eastern (20:15)

Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade

Referree: Artur Soares Dias

Police are expecting about 40,000 fans to come out for this one - including yours truly There's a bit of a buzz around the town however I think some are miffed that the game is being played on a Monday night. Police are definately not thrilled as the match time (20:15 local time) coincides with people trying to get home from work, so it's going to be a logistical nightmare on Monday night...

Post some pics (with the claques etc.)

BTW, since the game is being played at the Alvalade I;m inviting everyone to the Sporting forum for the match.

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?p=22838011#post22838011

Absolutely, will do

espn3.com will be showing this game, for all you Yankees that want to see Benfica get beat.

Sorry, I was trying not to be biased...but c'mon, who can be un-biased for this game?

Sucks to see a game of this calibre be played on a Monday, should be a packed stadium, but 40,000 for a monday game is a lot. Barcelona and Real Madrid on a Monday too.

Mr. Cristiano Ronaldo himself will be at the stadium watching the game.
http://www.record.xl.pt/capas/default.aspx?page=1&content_id=684904

David Luiz tried to go see the game today in Lisboa but couldnt make it due to Chelsea training. He will be watching VIA internet since there is no Portuguese TV in England.
http://abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=248542

They're taking a page from the EPL, taking a page from the NFL. I think Monday night games are brilliant...but it may take some time for it to catch. Setting derbys like this should help, because then the game becomes a "big event" even for neutrals.

Lista de convocados:

Guarda-redes: Roberto e Júlio César.

Defesas: Maxi Pereira, Luisão, Sidnei, Fábio Coentrão e Jardel.

Médios: Javi Garcia, Aimar, Carlos Martins, Airton, Felipe Menezes, Salvio e Gaitan.

Avançados: Saviola, Cardozo, Weldon, Jara e Nuno Gomes.

Not in Canada, Family day holiday today

Need to stop playing on the counter and put this Carrico-less sporting defence under more pressure, especially the leftside.

Valdes hurt? why is yannick out there? what about vuk? he needs to play his best players for these games.

Gaitan has really become a key player over the course of this season. Great stuff from him.

Im at work, livescore.com is slow, who scored ?

Thanks in advance.

Benfica with 10> Sporting with 12! Grande Benfica! 2-0 with only 10 players and away from home!

Highlights = http://www.tvgolo.com/football.php?subaction=showfull&id=1298318787&archive=&start_from=&ucat=39&

2km away from home?

That's quite a walk! SLLLLLB!

Proud of Jardel's debut in the league. Decent performance even while injuried! Jardel didnt train today due to injury in last night's game.
http://www.record.xl.pt/Futebol/Nacional/1a_liga/Benfica/interior.aspx?content_id=685101

Congrats on the win. I was at the game. Head on over to the Sporting thread for my thoughts, if you'd like...

Sporting 12? how do you figure that one?

I think they are counting Maniche's gut as another player

sporting is so trash this season dont even know why he gets so happy

oh I almost forgot. Benficas sole reason for existing is to hate the great Mythical institution that is Sporting Club of Portugal.

Actually, we were founded in 1904 when Sporting didn't exist yet so....

lol

Sport Lisboa was founded in 1904

SL Benfica was founded in 1908, but they choose to take the founding date of Sport Lisboa in 1904 so they can claim to be older than Sporting.

The antecessor of Sporting CP was Campo Grande Sporting clube (or something like that) which was founded in 1902, but Sporting CP chooses 1906 as its true foundation date because thats when they adopted the name Sporting CP.

so in reality, Sporting CP is older.