wasnt a bad game by sporting we had 26 shots, hit two posts and had a penalty kick not called in our favor (surprise surprise) this tie isnt over, we can win in denmark and go through. but its true we arent looking very good atm, but the performance wasnt all that bad just stupid errors giving up goals...
You gotta be freaking kidding me! Postiga can hit the side of a barn, he's scored like 5 goals in 3 yrs, enough is enough. Bettencourt ought to be run out of town, he's bringing this club to the lowest in my history.
with all the attack Sporting is constantly under, from the red and blue media, from the league, the refs, Portistas, and Benfiquistas... the last thing we need is for sportinguistas to turn on our own tam.. we need to stick togther its still early days i know it doesnt look good but well just have to deal with it unfortunately. Im sure we can win in denmark and maybe advance..
Most of the 26 shots were harmless long range attempts that almost all went wide and didnt trouble the Brøndby keeper at all (He was only forced to make one really excellent save in this match)... To be honest Sporting had around 10 golden minutes in the 2nd half, after Brøndby had scored their second goal, otherwise you never really got the feeling that they would be able to score a goal in this match... Brøndby on the other hand, seemed much more sharp and on target when they attacked and counter attacked. .
thats cuz u came to park the bus... this was just a "warmup".... in denmark we will smash you. your lucky the referee was a lampiao, calling eveyrthing in your favor and denyign us a legit penalty. Next game will be different. and then after that, Portugal will smash Denmark. 3-0, 1 goal from Ronaldo 1 from Quaresma and one from..............BEBE my team against Maritimo -----------RP----------- JP-------DC--NAC-----Evaldo---- ------Zapater--Maniche-------- --------Fernandez------------- Vuk------Yannick----Salomao---- (liedson looks like he will miss the next game)
He's a typical CF that needs to be fed a decent ball in order to score. Today he just didn't get any decent service.
thought he was a better coach. But honeslty if Sporting had any luck they could of at least scored 2 goals. They were very unlucky vs Pacos and Brondby.
I'm not a Brøndby fan... When I see Portugal play Denmark, they may have most possession, but have great trouble with the last ball and finishing their attacks... and I have seen the exact same flaw in this Sporting team, which a tactically better Brøndby team cleverly took advantage of... It had nothing to do with luck, Brøndby are just that level better than Nordsjælland... here are the highlights : [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4CMRjRQRhw"]YouTube- Sporting vs Brøndby IF (0 -2) Highlights 19/08/2010[/ame] .
It would only take Liedson in his old normal self to destroy Paços and Brondby. He's been sucking for the past season until now...it seems like a clear indication to me. At this point in time I would of bet in Saleiro upfront. I liked him in the pre-season. Diogo Salomão and Vuckcevic for the explosion on the wings. Torsiglieri for Polga and Zapater for Coelho sounds alot better. Paulo Sérgio made some strange choices... As for the 2nd leg, I believe Sporting can still do it if they actually manage to put the ball in the net. It's all about finishing since there's nothing wrong with their gameplay. If Paulo Sérgio actually put the most explosive players on the field plus Saleiro, I'm almost sure Sporting can turn this around.
I dont know why people keep selling out Liedson. He is probably one of the best if not the best player(s) you guys have. He may be older but he still has some gas left in the tank. (as shown in the WC).
I love trolls that come in with these great words of wisdom. Please don't come into this forum troll and flame...it won't be tolerated.
You're barely tolerated as it is. When Z stops coming to the Benfica boards everyone will stop coming here. You should come check out his words of wisdom some time before you talk about trolls.
I just love armchair coaches...."better tactically" LMAO Brondby parked the bus and was very fortunate on both goals. I don't want to descredit their effort but please, please don't make comments like this. For as bad as SCP played especially in the final third, they had every right to at minimum tie or even win this game. But it's soccer and sometimes the ball doesn't go in the net. Shots were hugely skewed in SCP's favor, more scoring chances is what that means. Whether they were quality can be debated as SCP alone in the second half hit the woodwork 3 times and the Brondby GK made 2 spectacular saves. I give credit to Brondby for parking the bus and bunkering, but I'm not sure that's "tactically better" it's just using the talent they have, which isn't much. Kudos on the win, but please let's not get carried away. SCP is in a bad spell and not very confident right now. Still a chance, though I expect Brondby will do the same in Denmark and instead of attacking on their home pitch will park an even bigger bus in front of their goal. Reminds me a lot of the Rangers team SCP played a few years ago. To be honest, I'm much more content to play quality attacking soccer, even when the team is in bad form. Is this just sour grapes on my part because SCP lost? Maybe...but in the end it makes me feel better Lots of work yet to be done. All is not lost...
I don't moderate those threads...I moderate here....so it stands. Troll and flame here and your posts will be sent to the great recycle bin in the sky... Again, I can't control what other posters do on other boards..but I do control what goes on in these threads... Don't like it don't post in these threads.
... said the armchair coach. According to UEFA.com, the two teams each produced 5 shots on target., but of course Brøndby were more sharp and on target, since they scored twice... and it had nothing to do with luck... Just about every time Sporting were trying a long cross or pass they missed and also just about all the long range attempts went wide and missed the target, just as it was the case against Nordsjælland. So the Brøndby coach had clearly been taking notes. The long Brøndby crosses and passes were on the other hand razor sharp when they were counter attacking and Brøndby were also good at keeping hold on the ball, making the right short passes and finishing their attack. If you think this is just luck and doesnt take much skills to do, then you dont know much about soccer. Perhaps you should watch these highlights of the full last 9 minutes of the first half between Deportivo La Coruña and Danish AaB Aalborg in the Round of 32 of the Europa League in 2008/09, to see if it remind you of something (both regarding the WC-10 qualifers and this first leg against Brøndby) : http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=-J2cGqxkjvA You can call it "luck" all you want, but if the same "luck" seem to keep repeating itself over and over again, then perhaps it is because it has rather to do with good skills, good teamwork, some good sharp finishing, good set pieces and some clever passes. .
Blablabla, Sporting underachieved and it's not news as of late. That's all you need to say really. And you can stop spamming. Comparing Denmark to Portugal on the club level is at the very least pathetic. Because that's what you indirectly have been doing when you generalize the gameplay between Denmark and Portugal. If you guys were so effective and tactically clever you wouldn't be 12th in the european ranking.
When was the last time a Danish team made a final of a major European tournament? Exactly. Almost as pathetic as finishing 1st in your qualifying group then getting knocked out of the group stage of the world cup
You forget, that Danish clubs cant afford to sign expensive foreign Stars and that the best Danish/foreign talent move abroad in fairly great numbers all the time, so even if the Danish league produce talented players and is very tactically strong, it is highly difficult to get success in Europe, also considering the long winter break, which more or less prevent the clubs from reaching the later stages of the Europa cups.. Right now Sporting got the disadvantage of Brøndby being slightly more match fit, but Brøndby will be even more disadvantaged than Sporting are now, if they were to get past a Europa leage group stage. It would almost take miracles for any Scandinavian side to reach further than a Round of 32 in the Europa league, because at that point they would still be on winter break while facing match fit players and teams mainly from the top-5 leagues. However, you just have to take a short look at the Brøndby 'Wall of Honour' to understand, that they are not a small club, even by Portuguese standards... They have produced World class players in the past like Peter Schmeichel, Michael and Brian Laudrup... not to forget more than half the Danish NT that won the Euro-92. So ther is no reason to underestimate them, just because their last Europa Cup quarter-final was back in 1996/97. .
Btw, you will find the Romanian league as 13th right behind the Danish league in the UEFA ranking, Brøndby finished 3rd in Denmark and is clearly regarded to be among the top-3 teams on paper right now, Steaua Bukarest finished 4th in Romania last season and if you had just lost 0-2 at home to them, then I doubt you would have so high hopes of "easily" beating Steaua by more than two goals in Bukarest as you have of beating Brøndby in the return leg... So I think you are clearly underestimating Brøndby, which I also think has been the case for the Sporting coach and players. .