Btw,wth is João Coimbra? :googly: :howler:

 

lol im glad im not the only one wondering :howler:


no idea, for sure a junior...maybe o benfiquista knows, or gein, they both seem more updated with the youth team....

 

I hope he plays better than the Pereira one....

 

he did look promising though :

 

Well i never like him but good luck to him anyway....

Btw,Inacio dont you think that Marcel could play tomorow as a starter? :undecide:

 

NO! :wallbang:

shall i do the balloon test on u ?!?

we can´t afford to not win the game tomorrow

now that we are out of any other competition, we have no reason whatsoever to be "resting" players, so we got to play our best cards !

IF we are winning 3-0 at HT...then i dont mind to sub in Marcel for the 2nd half

 

So why did we bring the guy to Benfica....only to have one more brazilian?

 

i think koe-man fancied him i have to admit he's handsome :

 

i think koe-man fancied him i have to admit he's handsome :

Wth? :googly: ,what do you want to mean by that? :undecide:

 

which part of my sentence?


well....he is handsome, imo...and he is crap...so, other than for his looks, i dont see why would koe-man wanna hire him

 

which part of my sentence?


well....he is handsome, imo...and he is crap...so, other than for his looks, i dont see why would koe-man wanna hire him

Ah,you think that he is cute,well good for him.....i couldnt care less about that. :tongue:

:howler: ,and Inacio,what are you trying to say about Koeman? :angel:

 

:howler: ,and Inacio,what are you trying to say about Koeman? :angel:

:angel:

i thought there was already an understanding over that :lala:

 

Ok,lets stop with this BS,i dont want to become a new MF! :howler:

Btw,we need realy to stay in the first two places......i realy dont want to go to the qualifying round of the Cl....the portuguese clubs record is miserable....also we could face good teams there. :scared:

 

whos MF? the former player and current coach, whos apparently becoming senile ?


yes, 2nd place is much better than 3rd, coz those qualifying games make us start playing a bit too early in the season....although this year we have improved our record and might get paired up with a more accessible team, but nevertheless its something to be avoided if possible


however, as things stand, and even if 5 pts on top of braga do look comfy....given our record this year.....im not even relaxed when it to comes to being sure that we can keep our 3rd spot

 

Nah,i dont believe that Braga can catch us......yeah MF is Manuel Fernandes,the former Santa Clara coach. :tongue:

 

At this point, I'm more concentrated at securing that second spot. Porto have a strong hold on that first position now despite losing to us twice this season . Is it possible for us to go on and win the league? Yes, however, it's a lot more realistic to go out and get second. Atleast with that, we can secure a Champions League spot. If we secure the second spot than I can say our season was a success. We could then reload in the off-season and buy some new players with the money we made off of the Champions League and League and come out stronger next season. We did alright considering we had a bone-head of a manager.

Anyway, I see us taking this match 2-0 with goals from Geovanni and Luisao.

 

Anyway, I see us taking this match 2-0 with goals from Geovanni and Luisao.

u've given them those nuno shots huh?

 

João Coimbra his one of our most talented youth players. He's been playing in the B team, and he is what you usually call a box-to-box midfielder. Very strong (1.83m; 82kg) but tecnically good aswell.

Out of curiosity, in the NT youth teams, João Moutinho was his sub.

I hope that tomorrows game goes well for us, so that Coimbra can get as much playing time as possible.

 

One more thing. With only 4 defenders available, and one of them being Nélson witch is expecting surgery, it would be a good move to call a defender from our youth team. Players like the argentinean Pablo (CB) or the portuguese Miguel Lopes (RB) or Tiago Gomes (LB) would be good choices, I think.

The slovenian Gregor Balazic from the u-19 team also show great promise.

 

I really wouldn't mind seeing Tiago Gomes get some playing time.

 

Just hope the squad enters the pitch ready to win it and convinced they will still make the second spot. It's easy, we win 5 games now and we're in. Sporting will have their usual last-matchday-setback then.

 

thanks gein :thmbup:


yes, we definetly should have called a 5th defender :rollani:

and that joão coimbra sounds ok...lets hope we can make a seriously GOOD 1st half, and then maybe we can try him

 

What we need isto win it,and end of the story!

We need to put pressure on Sporting,btw now Filipe is calling Benfica,the dream team of colombo shopping..... :finger: :howler:

 

he's still with the "hangover" from last night :howler:

if only we could have a share of the $ that goes into that shopping center....:hopefull:

he also made us the favour of posting the games to come

which im taking the liberty of pasting here

benfica:Marítimo (home), Boavista (away), Nacional (away), V.Setúbal (home) and P.Ferreira (away).


sporting:Estrela da Amadora (away), Naval (home), Rio Ave (away) and Braga (home)


imo, our toughest games will be tonights and the last one, as we are talking about teams fighitng not to get relegated...the rest, even though better teams, have their positions pretty much stable and secured

sporting on the other hand, has 3 "aflitos" to play, and braga who...well by the time they play them, they may have nothing to fight for (3rd place) ...i wish they would meet them before

 

he's still with the "hangover" from last night :howler:

if only we could have a share of the $ that goes into that shopping center....:hopefull:

he also made us the favour of posting the games to come

which im taking the liberty of pasting here

benfica:Marítimo (home), Boavista (away), Nacional (away), V.Setúbal (home) and P.Ferreira (away).


sporting:Estrela da Amadora (away), Naval (home), Rio Ave (away) and Braga (home)


imo, our toughest games will be tonights and the last one, as we are talking about teams fighitng not to get relegated...the rest, even though better teams, have their positions pretty much stable and secured

sporting on the other hand, has 3 "aflitos" to play, and braga who...well by the time they play them, they may have nothing to fight for (3rd place) ...i wish they would meet them before

you are taking too many liberties lately but this time you are forgiven

anyway I'm not so sure that playing the "aflitos" is such a highly difficult task for us having in mind our results against those teams in the last matches we've played against them: Académica (3-0 away), Gil Vicente (2-0 home), V.Guimarães (1-0 away).