Date: Saturday September 23rd Time: 6:15 p.m. Local Time | 1:15 p.m. ET | 10:15 p.m. PT Location: Parque Joaquim Almeida Freitas, Moreira de Conegos Television: Sport TV 1 Acestream: ArenaVision 17 Web Stream: TBD
Moreirense has given up a lot of goals so far while scoring few of their own. Could be 2 or 3 to 0. But I'd love to see a thrashing 4+ goals and a clean sheet. Make a statment with Porto heading to town the following weekend.
Especially against that whiner Manuel Machado. BTW Record saying Acuna will be rested tomorrow for upcoming games against Barca and Porto. He has looked fatigued and I think its smart to bench him. Bruno Cesar would likely be the substitute. Probably will see something like: Rui; Piccini, Coates, Mathieu, Coentrao William, Battaglia, Gelson, Bruno Cesar Bruno Fernandes, Dost I liked Ristovski but I think JJ has a lot of faith in Piccini who was rested
Starting XI Rui Patrício; Piccini, Coates, Mathieu, Fábio Coentrão; William Carvalho, Bruno Fernandes, Gelson Martins, Bruno César; Alan Ruiz, Bas Dost
Battaglia and Acuna rested for barca and Porto makes sense. Alan had a better game in midweek and has another chance to perform
Big save from Jhonatan Luis off the free kick. Fernandes had that tucked into the bottom left corner.
Beautiful play between, William and Buno Cesar. Moreirense defender just got a foot on the ball off the pass from William otherwise Dost would’ve had a tap in
********ing hell. Shitty deflection gives Rafael Costa all the time in the world to bury that one. 1-0 Moreirense
Deflection? No. Dude was WIDE open. Thank sorry ass Bruno Cesar ball watching by himself for that one.
Offensively we haven't been bad, at least we've created chances, defensively we've been passive. Alan actually hasn't been bad at all, but when you drop Bruno Fernandes deeper just to play Alan you lose grit in midfield that Battaglia normally brings. I expect Battaglia to come in for Alan and Bruno moves up.
He was wide open, that’s fair, Bruno Cesar was on a turnstile in no mans land. but that ball was not heading towards him at all until it went off Coentrão.
I can understand starting Alan considering the game against Barcelona. But there is absolutely no justification for starting Bruno Cesar. Cesar is absolutely 100% unfit for this team. I'd play Bryan Ruiz over him. Dude was just standing there COMPLETELY BY Himself on that goal. What a shit player he is.