All square at Estádio do Dragão this weekend and Benfica came away from their rival’s stadium thinking what could’ve been if referee Pedro Proença hadn’t been enganado by Lisandro Lopes, who took a dive on the edge of the penalty area to win the penalty that helped Porto secure a point at home. Unfortunately, we fail to explain what enganado means in part one of the podcast, so absorbed were we by the intensity of our post-match analysis, but as many of you will probably have guessed, it translates as tricked.
Sporting Clube de Portugal failed to gain points on their rival Grandes, falling victim to the ever impressive Sporting Braga, who convincingly beat SCP 2-3 at Avalade. Leixões re-found their winning touch courtesy of two goals from their Wesley replacement, Chumbinho. The Leixões ultras found time to protest at the omission of their goalkeeper Beto from Carlos Queirós’ Portugal squad to face Finland in a friendly next week. We discuss the merits of Queirós’ picks in part 1.
In part 2 we review the rest of the weekend’s matches, including what many are calling the most boring game in Portuguese history: Estrela Amadora’s scoreless home draw against Vítoria de Setúbal. Far more exciting is the form of Brazillian goal machine Nené, who netted another two goals to bring his tally to 12 for the season in Nacional’s 0-4 win away to Naval.
To round off the podcast we focus on the two cup competitions in Portugal, the Taça da Liga and the Taça de Portugal.
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Thanks for listening,
Steve and Phil
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