Sporting C. P. x F. C. Bayern Munich - UEFA Champions League Knock Out Stage Feb. 25, 2009 [R]

Competição: Liga Campeões - 1/8 de final
Local: Estádio José Alvalade
Data: February 25, 2009
Hora: 19:45 (Hora Local)

UEFA Champions League Knock Out Round

Postiga, Adrien, Rui Patricio, and Veloso are all out for this one

Not the best situation to be in with all those injuries, but the win against Benfica should give them confidence and morale. Game against Porto this weekend will also be lingering in their minds.

If Sporting plays the way the played in the 2nd half against Benfica, I'm sure they can pull of a tie.

Best of luck.

Hopefully Sporting plays against Bayern the way they did in the second half against Benfica. Anyone think there's a chance for a win?

Yes of course.
We're at home & coming off a big win. Bayern on the other hand are not.

I dont have confidence in this game, Im sure sporting will play well but bayern will score some shit goals from set plays and free kicks.

luca toni will eat our CD alive, and Tiago in goal doesnt give me much confidence.

I think it will be a high scoring game, I think it will be a 2-2 draw but im hoping for a win of course.

but this is the CL, Bayern will step it up

2 years ago SCP also tied 0-0 away and lossed 1-0 at home, and probably deserved more especially away from home where moutinho hit the crossbar late on and Bayern fans themselves booed their own team off the pitch at the end of the game.

SCP got stronger now, and are more accustomed to CL football lets hope for a great win.

FORCA SPORTING

Sporting do have a chance despite the injuries. They are at home and the fans are amped after a huge win/great performance against Benfica. The players are riding high on confidence/morale. As long as they have the mentality they played with in the 2nd half, they should be perfectly fine.

But I can also see the players being extremely cocky after the win against Benfica and just getting trashed 3-0.

Regardless of Sporting beating Benfica, Im still pulling for you guys, which isn't easy but yeah...

However, different case with Porto and Athletico, I hope Simao has a hat trick against Porto.

Sporting CP vs Bayern Munich: UEFA Champion's League

Well despite being a Braga Fan I am still Portuguese!!!!!!!!

What? UEFA Champion's League: Last 16: Game 7

Venue: Estadio Jose Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal

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Sporting to challenge Bayern superiority





Sporting Clube de Portugal have to reverse the tide of history if they are to overcome FC Bayern München and progress to the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals for the first time. In 14 games against opponents from Germany they have still to register a victory.

• Moreover, Bayern's record in UEFA club competition against teams from Portugal is equally daunting for Sporting: in 20 games the Bundesliga champions have only tasted defeat on one occasion and that came in the 1986/87 European Champion Clubs' Cup final.

• Sporting will consider it a triumph to have got this far – in their four previous campaigns they had never progressed from the group phase – but will not want to rest on their laurels. At home in Group C they won their first two games, against FC Basel 1893 and FC Shakhtar Donetsk, and then suffered a 5-2 defeat at the Estádio José Alvalade against FC Barcelona, who finished one point ahead of them in first place. The Lisbon club replicated those results away from home, winning against Shakhtar and Basel but losing in Barcelona.

• As they bid to match their club's achievement of 1982/83 when they reached the European Cup quarter-finals, Paulo Bento's side will have to improve on their previous results against German visitors. In seven home games they have drawn four and lost three and in this competition the statistics are even more foreboding. Of the four previous visits by German clubs to face Sporting in Lisbon in the European Cup, only the 0-0 draw with Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the 2000/01 first group stage prevents a clean sweep of home defeats.

• Of those reverses, the last came at the hands of Bayern. It came in the 2006/07 group stage as the Munich club won 1-0 at the Estádio José Alvalade with Bastian Schweinsteiger's 19th-minute goal proving the difference. The German international later blotted his copybook by getting sent off.

• The lineups for the match on 18 October 2006 were:
Sporting: Ricardo, Anderson Polga, Carlos Martins (Yannick Djaló), Rodrigo Tello, Marco Caneira, Tonel, Nani, Alecsandro (Carlos Bueno), Miguel Veloso (Carlos Paredes), João Moutinho, Liedson.
Bayern: Oliver Kahn, Willy Sagnol, Lucio, Daniel Van Buyten, Lukas Podolski (Julio dos Santos), Claudio Pizarro, Mark van Bommel, Philipp Lahm, Roque Santa Cruz (Hasan Salihamidžić), Bastian Schweinsteiger, Andreas Ottl (Martín Demichelis).

• The return game in Munich ended 0-0 and since then Bayern have added to their tally of favourable results against Portuguese opposition with two wins and a draw. Their record is now: P20 W11 D8 L1.

• In Portugal, Bayern's record shows four wins and six draws in ten visits. They made two journeys there in last season's UEFA Cup, winning 2-0 at CF Os Belenenses to complete a 3-0 aggregate victory in the first round – Luca Toni and Hamit Altıntop scored in the away leg and Toni in Germany. Bayern then drew 1-1 away to SC Braga in the group stage with Miroslav Klose on the scoresheet. In home-and-away combat Bayern have always come out on top in aggregate terms with their superiority being made to count back on home soil, scoring 24 goals in nine games. The fixture Bayern will not want to recall was the 1986/87 European Cup final when they lost 2-1 to FC Porto in Vienna.

• When Bayern missed out on last year's tournament, it broke a run of ten successive campaigns. During that sequence, they lifted the trophy in 2001 having finished as runners-up two years earlier. They also managed to qualify for the knockout rounds in four straight seasons between 2003/04 and 2006/07.

• This time round Jürgen Klinsmann's Bayern were unbeaten in Group F with four wins and two draws and a 3-2 win at Olympique Lyonnais on Matchday 6 enabled them to finish with a three-point advantage at the top. They also won away against FC Steaua Bucureşti and drew at ACF Fiorentina. At home they picked up a point against Lyon and won the other two fixtures 3-0.

• Klinsmann scored for FC Internazionale Milano in their 2-0 semi-final second leg victory at home to Sporting en route to winning the 1990/91 UEFA Cup. The Lisbon leg had finished goalless. Klinsmann – scoring a record 15 goals in the process – also lifted the trophy in 1995/96 with Bayern. In the third round that season they beat SL Benfica, the striker scoring all the goals in a 4-1 home win. In Lisbon, Klinsmann struck twice in Bayern's 3-1 victory.

• João Moutinho and Hélder Postiga played for Portugal in a 3-2 defeat by Germany in the UEFA EURO 2008™ quarter-finals in Basel. In the opposing side were Philipp Lahm, Tim Borowski, Schweinsteiger, Klose and Lukas Podolski. Moutinho also encountered Altıntop in Portugal's 2-0 defeat of Turkey in Group A.

• Postiga appeared as a second-half substitute as Portugal lost to France in the 2006 FIFA World Cup semi-final. Franck Ribéry was on the opposite side.
• The second leg is at the Fußball Arena München on 10 March.

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Even though I hate sporting and their oblivious fans im still rooting for them in the CL to represent Portugal. Same goes for Porto.

I made a "Speicial" thread in the club forum for this game same as the Porto tie

thank you

No I didn't know Sporting thread had it. Anyway in the Club Foruym all Portuguese will be able to see it without " Trolling" being thrown out there

anyway Forca Portugal

sporting represents portugal, porto has what bruno alves and meireles? w00t w00t couldnt care less what happens to them.

Ball is round and anything can happen, but it will be tough!

After Sporting's 3-2 win against Benfica and Bayern losing to Hertha and Koln and having the worst defense, I can see Sporting win 2-0.

2-0 ..........

I hope your right but I don't think a clean sheet against bayern will be possible!!

Like mentioned before in this thread, Sporting have a knack of letting garbage goals in when it comes to these big games .

Btw, Luca toni might not be ready for this game due to some nagging injury ( hamstring I believe)

Forca sporting and good luck to porto as well
Viva portugal

I expect Polga to be at his best!!!

that makes bayern dangerous, how many times have we seen teams perform crappy in domestic league and then go into the CL rejuvenated and claim big victories?

heck when we were going into camp nou everyone was saying barcelona was underperforming etc then they won us 3-1.

liverpool, milan, they underperform at home always step it up in CL..

if sporting wins, it will be a miracle victory nothing less than that bayern only lost 1 game ever to a portuguese team in 20 times (EC final 87 to porto)

seriously, we are in the round of 16 but who did we beat? only shakthar and basel who really arent good we got drawn in a good group this time. whenever we play a big name team we suck (like vs Barcelona) or we play well but still fail to get a good result (i.e. roma, bayern, manchester united), we couldnt beat roma last year and now we are somehow going to beat bayern?

beating benfica 3-2 doesnt mean anything in this game, benfica got raped in the uefa cup so obviously they arent a good international team .. bayern is this will be tough

sporting has to Fight hard, never give up and give their best and for ********s sakes they cant give up any retard garbage set play goals or deflected shots again.

Really hope for a win.. i might be pessimistic but I know Sporting will play well and give good football most liekly. just never trust german teams in football they always have heavy doses of luck just like italians.

I can see Sporting winning!!!!

Why???

They are losing confidence and the CL that is a must.

Bayern have one of the worst defense in Germany.

Sporting are really confident after the Lisboa derby.

Playing in Lisboa in the last 16: CRAZY


Sporting are gonna win, I say 2-0 if they play their cards right.

Last year Bayern were rampant in Germany (winning the double) but the games against Belenenses they looked overrated and what not but Beleneses were alot better then.

Manuel Machado ugh managed to get Braga a draw against them in the UEFA Cup (if we had JJ we would of won Bayern)

anyway IMHO Sporting are the darkhorses in this years CL

Since when did Shaktar suck?????

They are one of the favs for the UEFA Cup!!!!!!!

and that loss to Barca at home (you guys scored 2 goals in 2 minutes) and they were on a 5 star form!! if Messi had wait to take that free-kick and the own goals were not there the result would of been 2-2, Sporting were very unlucky that game

long periods of time you lot played better than Barca

And you should not talk sh*t about Benfica last I checked they were above you in the standings!!!!!!!!!