Sport Lisboa e Benfica

[PsychoFan]

Goals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOQY8BrpGEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ElBgqkNlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppOW3VSwFm8

[Maxi_14]

SL Benfica 3 - 0 Vitória de Setúbal

[Cloughie]

Good game today.
Samaris is suspended for the next away game. 9 yellows on the League.

Faliro, for me, Pelkas has been the best player of Setúbal team. Good player.

[Faliro]

Interesting.. he seems to be doing well.
If only more Greek players got raised in the portuguese league.. we would have such a better national team..

[H]

Faliro, Samaris like you predicted, is rapidly turning into a fan favourite after a shaky start. I got to be honest, to me he is already one of the players in the squad that I really like to watch playing. His performances as Centre (maybe actually Defensive?) Midfielder are getting better by the day, always with good rhythm, stealing balls, opening spaces for players ahead of him on the pitch and with precise and intelligent cacetada. Don't know how he played today though, as I was working, but judging from the comments on his thread here on the Forum, I'd say he did good as usual on his last games.

Took a while to get the gears going, but once mingled with the whole team and the tactics from JJ, he improved greatly and if all goes well, will become the boss of the midfield in a very near Future.

[Faliro]

Very happy for Benfica.    I get sad when I watch him at Benfica sometimes because I know there is goals in this guy and he does not even go forward for corners,... but he is becoming something very good at DM, so who cares?

If he had gone earlier in his career to Benfica he would have perhaps adapted faster - around the time we took him from Panionios.

There are so many players I see in Greece... they peak.. the talent is there, the speed is there.. goals, passing... in European competition and Greece.. everything is there.. then the rot sets in... pick up bad habits from clueless coaches.. fans turn on them.. players can't read what they are trying to do.. or they get sold to some relegation Italian side... they end up returning to Greece at 27, broken, ruined.. it's sad.

Portugal has the infrastructure to blossom talent imo. Some of the sales out of Portugal are simply spectacular.

I can name around 5-8 Greek younger players who if they went to Portugal now... could become something valuable - even for the Portuguese national team - Greece doesn't give a shit what happens to them.. but alas.. they will disintegrate.. bad agents.. bad culture.. as the saying goes..

Greeks always eat their own children..

[Faliro]

Seems that was the same Andres Simoes AEK were after last month. 

[sbremoved_28408]

Shit performance. Was fuming at half time. Complete lack of intent.

Most players should't get paid after this miserable performance

[Festivus]

Seems that was the same Andres Simoes AEK were after last month. 

Did you watch the game, Faliro? What did you think of the officiating? And be honest.

[Faliro]

Missed the game.

Was the ref a joke?

[Festivus]

Missed the game.

Was the ref a joke?

Our detractors complain about a corner that shouldn't have been awarded and also a Moreirense player being sent off for simply arguing with the referee.

[Maxi_14]

Moreirense 1 - 3 SL Benfica

If we want to be champions we have to win games like these one, without any good football.
We missed Samaris. Good signal.
Ola John was, once again, awful. We need Gaitan so badly.

[Faliro]

^^ Gaitan is very important to Benfica imo. The team is far more potent with him.

Missed the game.

Was the ref a joke?

Our detractors complain about a corner that shouldn't have been awarded and also a Moreirense player being sent off for simply arguing with the referee.

Been seeing a lot of that in Greece this season. One a few weeks ago that i reported here. The player in question called the ref a malaka...

[sbremoved_28408]

Regarding the sending off,Moreirense's players and coach say that they don't know what André Simões said to the referee. To me that´s enough to know that he said something that was worthy of the red card

[Faliro]

Thing is..players are constantly saying 'fuck off' to the ref..
Now these guys are starting to see yellows for this.

What could have Andre said that worth a red? 'fuck your mother in both holes you stupid ref' ??