Even so, I think Jorge Jesus could've been a bit wiser with his squad rotation in the first half of the season.
William and Adrien don't have capable replacements because our signings were awful. We should have kept Aquilani and Adrien has been injured for a few weeks. I don't think Jesus has any other option than play them as much as he did. Jefferson had a few injuries and is now a shadow of the player that was putting balls on Slimani's head week in week out. He's awful. Worse than zeegelaar, which is a big acomplishment.
Or we get a striker or we done, Benfica always have a shit load of strikers and when we got one (Slimani) he went to a team that's fighting to stay in the PL.
Well Leicester were also reigning champions at the time. Still are.
Bas Dost is good enough, but we need more in that department for sure. Letting Montero go is proving to be a big mistake. Castaignos, André and that new Ruiz guy are not good enough.
Didn't he get in some sort of trouble with the president about a possible transfer a while ago? I had the mpression he was sort of being punished for something.
Yeah, there were some problems there but he lost his spot because of injuries and his bad form. He wasn't being punished as far as I'm aware.
And Brahimi was sent off for a second yellow card, but it turns out he only got one yellow shown to him during the match. Unbelievable. I've never seen anything like this.
You can rest assured that for every refereeing error made, there will be scores of pundits/experts just waiting to defend them:
So apparently Brahimi got shown a yellow card during the whole Danilo confusion but nobody knew about it. TV stations and journalists didn't see it at all, but he was rightly sent off then. This is just hilarious
That will never happen with benfica
You can't make this shit up. Unbelievably awful decision. Benfica fans will laugh at the corruption arguments Sporting and Porto fans make but surely they have to expect it after decisions like these.From that video it doesn't really look like a penalty but you have seen them given before. It's not as "non existant" as you first made out.
I have seen those called before. But they were wrongly called too. That's not a penalty anywhere in the world. He just fell by himself.
Literally barging into a referee and screaming in his face as if you're in charge of the game? There's no need for that in any football game and just shows how ridiculous it is.
A lot of players will act like that here. It's how it is. Different cultures. It's the same in Spain.
The worst part of this video was the Sporting players going at the referee.
Sporting B score a goal, players celebrate. Ref calls offside about 10 seconds after the goal, Braga B counter and score while the Sporting players celebrateThe funny thing was the flop man didn't raise the flag after the goal, he did it I guess (wasn't in the video) after he runs to the middle
Yep. Fecked my bet right up.
Plenty of time left... 1-3 now. I'd be surprised if they don't at least tieYep. Fecked my bet right up.
Yep, if i had some money on a betting site i'd do that. I highly doubt they will lose.
Nelson Semedo was magnificent today. Enjoyed watching the game. Benfica in full flow is something worth watching. Rafa Silva also again impressive and leaving his mark on most games he plays either from the bench or starting.
Looking forward to watching it. That Sporting side makes me sad.
