What a joke - 2-1 setubal final didnt even give any time after the pk Que grande roubalheira, someone please rename this the Benfica Cup No question we didnt have a good game but there were a lot of bad calls in this game ending with the PK that didnt exist
I only caught the tail end of the game. But that was a horrible call. No foul. But what can you do? None of this matters if they don't turn the ball over at half. This team has been very shaky at the end of games all season. I dunno why Andre made that super high lobbed back pass to William, just get the ball forward and stand over it with 1:30 left... Then the William turnover. I knew something bad was coming. That's was a joke though.
If Andre didn't miss a sitter (seriously he was 2 yards out, he skyrocketed it!) we would've won. This is a stupid cup, seriously the tie breaker is average player age?!?! And there isn't even a Europa League birth or anything - we seriously should just play the youth players in this competition. And Jesus' stubbornness is costing us - we need to really consider getting rid of Castaignos, Markovic (I'd get rid of Douglas too if Semedo wasn't injured)
ditto. Why even waste money in this competition if you don't want to win it ? I just watched one of the worst teams assembled to represent Sporting. Not only were the players of 3rd division caliber , but so were the coach and the referees . Painful to watch.
Apparently not. Even on points. Even on goal difference. And 3rd level is the average age of used players. The lower the better.
Bruno "Big Baby" de Carvalho is apparently calling back Geraldes and Gauld because of this loss. Nice, good for them to rot in the B team. I really don't understand what is going on in his head sometimes. Every action he takes makes Sporting look smaller and smaller. Personally don't care at all about cup games, pretty embarrassing though. Looking back, Adrien should've been sold in the summer. This is close to Godinho years. Also LOL at Andre's two missed sitters. No wonder the Brazilians were laughing at us when we signed him.
I'd love to have those two back and in the team but we know they won't get played so what's the point
Geraldes was already being discussed for a return long before this Setubal game, so I don't think BDC is doing anything out of spite towards Setubal. The referee is the issue here, not Setubal. So I'm confused as to why anyone would make unsupported claims or assumptions. Unless, of course, you are reading from a pro-SLB tabloid, which does anything to shit on SCP. If Adrien was sold in the summer, we wouldn't be in 4th place, we'd be in 10th place. He is easily the most important player on this squad. But part of the reason for that is the way this club has failed miserably in the summer transfer window, which I think has more to do with Jesus than BDC. If we had more money, we can purchase a $10 million bench warmer like SLB does. But we don't win anything, so there is no money. The colinho does not help. I've given up on Portuguese soccer. This shit seems more fixed than Italy.
Adrien should never have been sold. So you're saying you'd have been happy with Elias as our starting number 8? As @SCP_16 says that would be ludicrous and we'd be in mid table at best
lol whats the difference between mid table and 4th? I'd rather have 45mil and rebuild a team that clearly isn't working. Not gonna see money like that for him again. He hasn't even been playing well, just like the rest of the squad. No point keeping players who are unhappy.
Quite a lot really, we'd still get European football in fourth The fact of the matter is we had no time to bring in a suitable replacement and even if we rushed a signing they would've been shite judging by our other signings. Made sense to keep him because like I said could you really have suffered Elias in the middle on his own until January ??
Yea - Adrien hasn't played that much better than Elias. We'd still be in 4th realistically. Patricio and Gelson are the only onse on this teams that have been playing decently.
Next summer if we get an early bid for one of our star players we should consider it. It's better than selling our star players a day before the window closes and we're forced to get Markovic on loan.
I take issue with that. No way are they on the same level of play. Without Adrien I'm certain that a mid-table or worse would be a reality . OK. I hope that was said in jest because it would otherwise show that you lack basic understanding of the meaning of a national 1st division soccer competition .
I thought it was obvious... yes i was being facetious... Take all the issue you want, Adrien, like the rest of the squad, has been shit. I've said it for years, when Adrien plays well, the whole team plays well. Adrien has not been playing well and the teams performance reflects it. Seems pretty obvious he doesn't want to be here.