SL Benfica [2011|2012]

[Master Pi a Gi]

S.L. Benfica
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Official Website:

www.slbenfica.pt

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Full Name:
Sport Lisboa e Benfica

Nickname(s):
As Águias [ The Eagles ]
Encarnados [ The Reds ]
Glorioso [ The Glorious ]

Founded:
28 February 1904

Stadium:
Estádio da Luz ( Lisbon, Portugal)
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Capacity:
65.200

Chairman:
Luis Filipe Vieira

Manager:
Jorge Jesus

League:
BWIN Liga [ 4th place - 2007/2008 ]
Liga Sagres [ 3rd place - 2008/2009 ]
Liga Sagres [ 1st place - 2009/2010 ]
Liga Zon Sagres [ 2nd place - 2010/2011 ]
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Kits:

2011/2012

H | A

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[Master Pi a Gi]

New season, new expectations, if everything goes well Jesus and Vieira will probably stay, if it doesnt go well they can bet that they're f****d up

 

[kp41]

Good signings, especially in defense.

 

[Master Pi a Gi]

Good signings, especially in defense.

Yep Garay was good, Capdevila we will see how he plays since he has already a certain age.
But the signing that i liked most so far its Nolito

 

[Coruja]

Roberto out.

 

[Master Pi a Gi]

Yep hes gone, its a surprising deal, anyway we have an important match tomorrow, just hope that we score soon to get it done.

 

[Coruja]

I found this video quite funny.

 

[Tiago_10]

Still can't believe we sold Roberto for 8,6 Millions

Good luck to him as I'm very happy with Artur Moraes. I think it's not a smart move for Eduardo to join us though.. There goes Rui Patricio to the starting spot on the NT.

 

[Master Pi a Gi]

I found this video quite funny.

Every already knows about what Porto usually did and still does

 

[Tiago_10]

 

[Coruja]

Now its the rumour of Cardozo... hum.

 

[Master Pi a Gi]

Already saw that video pretty funny still.
About transfers, i think that we would only sell or loan the players that we dont actually need since its a bit late to sell important players.

 

[Master Pi a Gi]

Trabzonspor 1-1 Benfica

Deserved more than a draw, Gaitán played around like a little kid and he had a bunch of goal chances, Nolito scored again.

Still we passed to the next stage and that's the more important.

 

[Tiago_10]

Yeah we wasted several chances and deserved to win this 2nd leg... But whatever it was enough to go through.

Witsel looks really really promising btw.

About Cardozo, he seems to be away for almost the entire match and all of a sudden scores. Still he scores 20+ goals a season easily. Meh.. would like him to stay, but I won't be that upset if he leaves.

 

[Coruja]

It was strange that he didnt play even 5 minutes.

 

[Master Pi a Gi]

Yep Cardozo was strange, i only agree we sell Cardozo if we get someone that can also scores a bunch of goals, not someone like Hugo Almeida.

 

[Tiago_10]

Indeed, Hugo Almeida doesn't seem much of an improvement over Cardozo, quite the opposite..


We'll next be facing one of these teams:

Rubin Kazan (Rússia)
Twente (Holanda)
Udinese (Itália)
Zurique (Suíça)
Odense (Dinamarca)


Zurique and Odense look the easier teams on paper, knowing our luck in these draws we'll probably get Udinese

 

[Coruja]

And still Udinese lost Alexis and Zapata who were really important. But yeah, they're a hard team to play.

 

[Master Pi a Gi]

I bet in Udinese or Rubin Kazan

 

[Master Pi a Gi]

So we got Twente, not bad it could have been better but it could be worse.