Frankly I am pissed off to the back teeth.
First off razor i dont know how you know i listened to the game but i did, however i have seen the game in full on video now.
Now why am i sooooooooooooooooooooo pissed off, well the same people who were going on about how great benfica were on sunday and how we were going to win the c'ship are now the same saying that we are crap and and that we will be lucky to be top 5. (for the record i think we can still win the c'ship, although it will take a huge effort) Now its only 2 ****ing days difference and yet we are two completely different teams.
First off porto were amazing and 4-0 flatters us really, however i refuse to congratulate them, as i dont congratulate anything i hate.
Now lets look at the statistics before the game, porto 100% home record in the league whilst we have won 2 away from home all season. Oh and we havnt won nas antas since erickson. Now porto were always going to be favourites and losing 2-1 with a 90 th minute porto goal or getting thrashed 4-0 in the cup is the same...as the final result will be elimination. As for its only the cup....Please you wouldnt have been saying that if we had won, the cup is a prestigous competition that any club team wants to win.
Ok now ive heard toni being criticised, toni this and toni that...bollox....come on i bet these were the same people prasing toni on sunday, he suddenly becomes a bad manager in 2 days....If you say so!! The only thing i would question was bringing roger on, but i suppose he needs to improve his fitness somehow, maybe bringing on esteves for sabry at 3-0 was unwise if still in the hunt for a victory, but toni knows best and if he felt that keeping the score down was best and avoid 7 or 8 then so be it.
Next Ronaldo, first off I dont know why this guy is captain....but....as a player, please let the contract nogotiations fail, I mean the guy is sooooooooo slow its not even funny....btw, this is not an assesment of yesterdy but rather of his whole career at benfica.
Rojas, i ve said this before and i'll say it again what has this guy done to deserve to play for benfica.
To the people who cliam what was toni doing changing the team....you probably are the people who would have said why didnt toni change the team if we had played the same and lost. Remember...basically the same team played 3 games against porto in 6 days whilst most of porto played 2.
Ok , the attendance, rain or no rain, wind or no wind....16,000 for a cup game between two teams who claim to hate eachother is absolutely pathetic. Do you rememeber when we played salgueiros last season winning 1-0....There was an absolute downpoor, worse than yesterdays yet we managed 40,000 against a team we have no rivalry with. Sorry but weather is not an excuse as for dragaoazul i very much doubt thats what the benfica players were thinking but, it does bear badly on porto (and on portuguese football) that they can only muster up 16,000.
