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

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  1. Benfica4Life Member

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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
          
  2. Força Sporting Member

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    Police are expecting about 40,000 fans to come out for this one - including yours truly :cool: 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...
  3. Força_Portugal Member

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    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
  4. Força Sporting Member

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  5. FigoTX Member

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    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?
  6. Benfica4Life Member

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    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.
  7. Benfica4Life Member

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  8. FigoTX Member

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    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.
  9. Benfica4Life Member

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    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.
  10. Sporting#1 Member

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    Not in Canada, Family day holiday today:)
  11. Area 51 Member

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    Need to stop playing on the counter and put this Carrico-less sporting defence under more pressure, especially the leftside.
  12. geeko79 New Member

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    Valdes hurt? why is yannick out there? what about vuk? he needs to play his best players for these games.
  13. benficafan3 Member

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    Gaitan has really become a key player over the course of this season. Great stuff from him.
  14. nbstriker8 Member

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

    Thanks in advance.
  15. Benfica4Life Member

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  16. VicVR6 Member

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  17. Benfica4Life Member

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    That's quite a walk! ;) SLLLLLB!
  18. Benfica4Life Member

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  19. Benfica4Life Member

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  20. Força Sporting Member

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    Congrats on the win. I was at the game. Head on over to the Sporting thread for my thoughts, if you'd like...
  21. heavy1981 Member

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  22. VicVR6 Member

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    I think they are counting Maniche's gut as another player :confused:
  23. ---Z--- Member

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    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.
  24. benficafan3 Member

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

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  25. ---Z--- Member

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    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.

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