Olhanense vs. S.L. Benfica: Primeira Liga - 24ª jornada Date: Friday, March 23rd, 2012 Time: 4:45 Stadium: Estádio José Arcanjo
Garay and Yannick continue to be out injured. Bruno Cesar not called up. Lista de convocados: Guarda-redes: Artur Moraes e Eduardo Defesas: Maxi Pereira, Luisão, Miguel Vítor, Jardel, Capdevila, Luís Martins e Emerson Médios: Javi García, Matic, Witsel, Pablo Aimar, Gaitán e Nolito Avançados: Cardozo, Rodrigo, Nélson Oliveira e Saviola
Aimar will be rested today so he can be 100% against Chelsea. Rodrigo will start. Assuming Witsel takes the 10. Loving seeing him there.
Official Starting XI... --------------Artur-------------- ---------Luisao----Jardel-------- Maxi---------------------Emerson ------------Javi Garcia----------- Gaitan--------Witsel---------Nolito ---------Nelson---Cardozo-------- Subs: Eduardo Miguel Vitor Capdevila Matic Aimar Saviola Rodrigo
Very flat first half. No action. Olhanense have 11 players defending. Field is dirt. Emerson gets a yellow and will miss the next game, which is a good thing. More playing time for Capdevila. Emerson has made 3 mistake alone in the first half. No improvement.
Aimar replaces Nolito at the beginning of the 2nd half to resolve Benfica lack of creativity and only causes Benfica more trouble by getting a red carded minutes after entering! Totally fukcked
Saviola IN Emerson OFF Benfica playin with 4 strikers!!!!! now that's balllllls! 10 vs. 11 Forca Benfica!!!! Carrega
Red card killed the game; Olhao played for the draw thereafter. Came close at the end but keeper made a great save to finish the game.
Benfica better be wary or they might lose the CL spot to Braga before this season is out. It's unbelievable with all the supposed talent on this team but Benfica is still not deep enough to play multiple competitions late in the season.
He also made a great play a little earlier when Cardozo had that beautiful long ball dropped between him and the goal.
Saviola and some dude (don't know his name) challenging for a ball about waist high, Saviola goes through the play and puts his cleats into the Olhao player. Honestly, the kind of thing that shouldn't be given a red, I think Saviola's reaction to getting carded turned what was going to be a yellow into the red. Saviola can really come across as an ass.
Thanks, umdemelo. I guess you mean Aimar... Looks like Benfica seem angry at the ref's decision from the interviews.
Don't we have 3 spots (1 qualification)? Braga is having an incredible season, it's going to be tight at the top. At the moment, and with their form...anything can happen.
Found the video... looks like a red to me, Aimar changes the trajectory of his leg to hit the Olhanense player deliberately and needlessly. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbVfvFnVVSw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbVfvFnVVSw[/ame]
I thought we had 2, I feel like only the top 5 leagues get 3 or more now that they've encouraged more champions from the smaller leagues to get in.