The other Champions League match featuring a Portuguese club involves Boavista and Auxerre, the first leg will be played in Porto Tuesday evening. Boavista reached the Third Qualifying round by virtue of its 7-3 aggregate defeat of Maltese champions Hibernians during the past two weeks. Things will get tougher as the Portuguese runners-up have to contend with the explosive Cisse, one of the best young players in the world.
Boavista's squad: Ricardo and William; Paulo Turra, Éder, Rui Óscar, Mário Loja and Bosingwa; Sanchez, Jociwalter, Ávalos, José Pedro, Jorge Silva, Ico and Alexandre Goulart; Serginho, Martelinho, Duda, Silva and Luís Cláudio.
Boavista lineup: Ricardo; Bosingwa, Paulo Turra, Eder and Mário Loja; Jorge Silva, Ico and Sanchez; Alexandre Goulart; Martelinho and Silva. Reserves: William, Ávalos, Duda, Serginho, Jocivalter, Luiz Cláudio and José Pedro. Let's go Boavista.
Auxerre lineup: Fabien Cool; Radet, Boumsong, Mexés and Jaures; Mathis and Tainio; Gonzalez, Lachuer and Fadiga; Cissé. Reserves: Hamel, Faye, Grichting, Jay, Mwaruwaru, Deblock and Assati.
Auxerre’s Hélder Esteves, of Portugal, injured his right knee in training yesterday, and will not be available today for the French side. According to the team’s website, the 25-year-old forward is in his second season at Auxerre. In 2001 – 2002, he played sparingly (3 games – 2 Championat, and 1 Coupe de la Ligue) without scoring a goal. http://www.aja.fr/index.htm
4' early yellow to Silva for a foul on Mexes BTW, I am getting this from http://www.maisfutebol.iol.pt
The ticker is not offering much action—either that or the game has been very uneventful thus fa. Highlights from MaisFutebol: 17’Yellow card fo Mathis (Auxerre) on a foul on Goulart 15’ Boavista is attackin but not managing much against Auxerre’s compact defense 8’ Jorge Silva’s shot from outside of the box is taken cleanly by keeper Fabien Cool
41' Yellow for Jorge Silva for a foul on Cisse. Boavista has held play for most of the game. Ricardo has not been tested. Boavista NEEDS a goal.
Final 1-0. Boavista makes things very difficult. Now, they must go to France trailing by an away goal, which is never easy to overcome, especially for a team like Boavista that has trouble scoring goals on this stage. This could be a rapid CL exit for the Portuguese teams this season after a strong showing last year.
they deserve it. I used to have a lot of respect for Boavista until this summer when they stupidly let Emanuel go to Porto and then sell Petit off to Benfica, now they even have placed Elpidio Silva on the market....maybe Sporting will buy him To let you're rivals poach you're players? That just pathetic!
I don't know if it so much that they let their players go, than it is they are selling their top performers to pay their debts. This is the way smaller clubs have to operate.
you're missing the point. Foreign teams expressed interest in Petit, & Emanuel, if you're going to sell....sell to not make your rivals stronger!!!
I understand. At the end of the day, I have to believe that the foreign offers were not as good as Benfica's and Porto's. If they were, then I will question their judgement too. Read this game summary. It seems Auxerre scored the goal on a counter while the Boavista players were arguing a non-call on a handball. Some things just don't change in Portugal. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/News/Kind=128/newsId=30112.html
I do agree that we are a culture are small in defeat, but that whole arguing thing is a latin thing IMO. The Italians and Spaniards do that all the time as well. So in fairness, it's not just us. PS-Boa let Emanuel go to Porto for free when they could have sold him for around E1.5 million in January. Juve offered (officially) roughly E500 000 more than Benfica.