Date: Sunday October 22nd Time: 8:15 p.m. Local Time | 3:15 p.m. ET | 12:15 p.m. PT Location: Estadio Jose Alvalade, Lisboa Television: Sport TV 1 Acestream: ArenaVision 17 Web Stream: TBD
Porto is killing Paços Ferreira right now... hopefully we give Chaves a thrashing tomorrow or they’ll start pulling away their GD Chaves missing a couple guys with injury, and obviously neither Matheus or Domingos Duarte will be playing
Doesnt help when Pacos plays a suicide defense. But Porto is in form right now while we only won 1 of our last 6 games (Oleiros): draw vs. Maritimo (league cup, not so important) draw vs. Moreirense (poor result against a poor team) draw vs. Porto (considering the game we played, a draw was positive) loss vs. Barca (frustrating but normal) loss vs. Juve (even more frustrating but normal) We have to win and convincingly. My Starting XI would be: Patricio Ristovski, Coates, Mathieu, Coentrao William, Bruno Fernandes, Battaglia, Gelson Podence, Doumbia
From what I've seen, I'm pretty sure we're going to get the usual suspects. Patricio Piccini, Coates, Mathieu, Coentrao William, Battaglia, Gelson, Acuna Fernandes, Dost
Record is saying we’re going with Patrício Piccini Coates Mathieu Jonathan William Battaglia Gelson Acuna Fernandes Dost lol
K but officially it’s gonna be Patrício Piccini Coates Mathieu Coentrão William Fernandes Acuna Gelson Podence Dost
Hmm glad to see Podence get a chance. I remember him and Dost combining well last year. Maybe they can replicate that. Bruno fernandes I assume will play deeper but we'll be missing the type of attitude Battaglia brings
Two things, I wanna see them get a goal for Dost, I’d imagine it’s in his head at this point that he hasn’t put one in a while Second, a big goal differential. Benfica and Porto won both their games pretty handily. Need to keep up with Porto and create some separation from Benfica Big game
Like I said before Podence and Dost have a good understanding and it's showing even if were losing the ball in midfield
Podence has been great. He just needs to keep it up, has a tendency to start hot then fade after 20 or so.