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quarta-feira, 27 de novembro de 2013

Início complicado...

Sp. Tomar 3 - 6 Benfica

Foi mais difícil do que seria de esperar. Entrámos a ganhar, mas antes do intervalo levámos com 2 cartões azuis (simultaneamente: Diogo e Traball), e assim ao intervalo estava 2-2.
A 2.ª parte foi bem melhor, o João Rodrigues esteve inspirado... mesmo assim, ainda levámos com outro azul (Coy)!!!

Empate... e Bernardo expulso!!!

Feirense 1 - 1 Benfica B

As crónicas do jogo falam de um resultado justo: uma 1.ª parte do Benfica e uma 2.ª parte com sinal mais dos homens da Feira.
Como não vi os lances, não os vou comentar directamente: mas tem sido visível nos últimos jogos fora (principalmente), um festival de faltas sobre o Bernardo, algumas bastante duras, e quase sempre com impunidade... e como o miúdo não é ferro, parece que desta fez protestou... Desconheço o senhor Carlos Espadinha, árbitro da partida, mas o observador foi um velho conhecido: Elmano Santos!!! Deu uma boa nota, de certeza...

1/3

"Está concluído 1/3 do Campeonato. Ao correr do teclado, uns apontamentos:
1. Voltou a normalidade dos 3 pretendentes ao título, ainda que uns mais do que outros e ainda que dois à vista desarmada e o outro a fingir que não é. Para a Champions já estão encontrados os candidatos do costume.
2. Na 10.ª jornada, o Benfica não teve Jesus no banco, mas teve Deus nas traves; o Porto teve o 'papa' na tribuna mas não teve (São) Mateus para vencer; o Sporting não teve Vitória no banco, mas teve a vitória (e Alá) no banco. Tudo sem casos enjoativos de arbitragem!
3. O Estoril tem treinador para bem ganhar, o Gil Vicente tem um Deus para surpreender e o Braga e Guimarães são candidatos a campeão da falta de sorte.
4. O Porto, ainda primeiro, perdeu 4 dos 5 pontos de avanço, coisa rara, assim copiando o Benfica das últimas épocas, só que mais cedo.
5. Novidade é também no FCP a constatação de que empata (Liga) ou perde (na Champions) depois de sempre ter estado a ganhar: Estoril, duas vezes, Belenenses, Nacional, Atlético de Madrid e Zenit. E o que significará o Nacional só ter feito 7 faltas no Dragão?
6. O Benfica, pé entre pé, é, a par do PCP, a defesa menos batida da Liga, quando era habitual ser o melhor ataque.
7. Quem tirará mais vantagens de jogar (ou não) na Europa? O Benfica e Porto ou o Sporting (que só tem Liga e Taça da Liga)? Respondam os entendidos.
8. Neste terço da Liga elejo o melhor e a decepção dos grandes: Benfica, Cardozo e Djuricic; Porto, Fernando e Varela; Sporting, William Carvalho e Carrilo.
9. Promete a luta pela permanência. Os grandes que se cuidem quando jogarem com os aflitos."

Bagão Félix, in A Bola

Lixívia 10

Tabela Anti-Lixívia:
Benfica......23 (-5) = 28
Sporting.....23 (-1) = 24
Corruptos...24 (+5) = 19
Braga.........12 (+2) = 10

Jornada sem grandes casos...
Na Luz, ficou um penalty por marcar a favor do Benfica, por falta da Micaela sobre o Garay: uma coisa é tentar estorvar a corrida do adversário nos pontapés de canto, outra coisa é agarrar-lo e atirá-lo para o chão!!! Ainda alguns foras-de-jogo mal tirados...
Estava com muito receio desta arbitragem, Nuno Almeida marcou, na época anterior, no último minuto das compensações, um penalty a favor do Benfica, na recepção à Académica. O penalty foi bem marcado, mas como é habitual, montou-se um enorme Circo à volta desta decisão... que aliás teve início no próprio relvado, no final da partida!!! A pressão para 'compensar' nestas situações é enorme, mas felizmente o Benfica mesmo jogando pouco, venceu. Mas para quem esteve no Estádio foi nítido, principalmente após o golo do Matic, que qualquer contacto junto da área do Benfica seria sempre falta...
Uma nota para o comportamento da Micaela: sempre a protestar, sempre a chorar, sempre, sempre!!! Existem jogadores que gozam de uma impunidade digna de registo. O Garay protestou uma falta mal assinalada contra o Benfica, levou imediatamente amarelo!!!

Os Corruptos reclamaram penalty num remate do Josué, mas o defesa do Nacional encolheu-se, não aumentou  a área do seu corpo, a bola bateu-lhe no ombro, mas sem falta... o Xistra decidiu bem (faz-me impressão escrever estas três palavras seguidas na mesma frase!!!)...

Não vi, nem me chegou aos ouvidos algum erro significativo em Guimarães, alguns foras-de-jogo duvidosos e nada mais...

Anexos:
Benfica
1.ª-Marítimo(f), D(2-1), Jorge Sousa, Prejudicados, (2-2), (-1 ponto)
2.ª-Gil Vicente(c), V(2-1), Paulo Baptista, Prejudicados, Sem influência no resultado
3.ª-Sporting(f), E(1-1), Hugo Miguel, Prejudicados, (0-2), (-2 pontos)
4.ª-Paços de Ferreira(c), V(3-1), Paixão, Nada a assinalar
5.ª-Guimarães(f), V(0-1), Bruno Esteves, Prejudicados, Sem influência no resultado
6.ª-Belenense(c), E(1-1), Jorge Tavares, Prejudicados, (2-0), (-2 pontos)
7.ª-Estoril(f), V(1-2), Manuel Mota, Beneficiados, Prejudicados, Sem influência no resultado
8.ª-Nacional(c), V(2-0), Jorge Ferreira, Nada a assinalar
9.ª-Académica(f), V(0-3), Hugo Pacheco, Prejudicados, Sem influência no resultado
10.ª-Braga(c), V(1-0), Nuno Almeida, Prejudicados, Sem influência no resultado

Sporting
1.ª-Arouca(c), V(4-1), Rui Costa, Nada a assinalar
2.ª-Académica(f), V(0-4), Soares Dias, Beneficiados, Sem influência no resultado
3.ª-Benfica(c), E(1-1), Hugo Miguel, Beneficiados, (0-2), (+1 pontos)
4.ª-Olhanense(f), V(0-2), Benquerença, Beneficiados, Prejudicados, Sem influência no resultado
5.ª-Rio Ave(c), E(1-1), Xistra, Prejudicados, (2-1), (-2 pontos)
6.ª-Braga(f), V(1-2), Paulo Baptista, Nada a assinalar
7.ª-Setúbal(c), V(4-0), Duarte Gomes, Beneficiados, Prejudicados, Sem influência no resultado
8.ª-Corruptos(f), D(3-1), Soares Dias, Nada a assinalar
9.ª-Marítimo(c), V(3-2), Bruno Esteves, Prejudicados, Beneficiados, Impossível contabilizar
10.ª-Guimarães(f), V(0-1), Paulo Baptista, Nada a assinalar

Corruptos
1.ª-Setúbal(f), V(1-3), João Capela, Beneficiados, Impossível contabilizar
2.ª-Marítimo(c), V(3-0), Jorge Ferreira, Beneficiados, Sem influência no resultado
3.ª-Paços de Ferreira(f), V(0-1), Rui Costa, Beneficiados, (0-0), (+2 pontos)
4.ª-Gil Vicente(c), V(2-0), Hugo Pacheco, Prejudicados, (3-0), Sem influência no resultado
5.ª-Estoril(f), E(2-2), Rui Silva, Beneficiados, Prejudicados, Impossível contabilizar
6.ª-Guimarães(c), V(1-0), Proença, Beneficiados, (0-0), (+2 pontos)
7.ª-Arouca(f), V(1-3), Vasco Santos, Beneficiados, Impossível contabilizar
8.ª-Sporting(c), V(3-1), Soares Dias, Nada a assinalar
9.ª-Belenenses(f), E(1-1), Miguel Mota, Beneficiados, (2-1), (+1 ponto)
10.ª-Nacional(c), E(1-1), Xistra, Nada a assinalar

Braga
1.ª-Paços de Ferreira(f), V(0-2), Bruno Paixão, Nada a assinalar
2.ª-Belenenses(c), V(2-1), Xistra, Beneficiados, Impossível contabilizar
3.ª-Gil Vicente(f), D(1-0), Vasco Santos, Beneficiados, Sem influência no resultado
4.ª-Estoril(c), V(3-2), Capela, Prejudicados, Beneficiados, Impossível contabilizar
5.ª-Arouca(f), V(0-1), Marco Ferreira, Beneficiados, (1-1), (+2 pontos)
6.ª-Sporting(c), D(1-2), Paulo Baptista, Nada a assinalar
7.ª-Nacional(f), D(3-0), Soares Dias, Nada a assinalar
8.ª-Académica(c), D(0-1), Benquerença, Beneficiados, Sem influência no resultado
9.ª-Rio Ave(c), D(0-1), Jorge Tavares, Nada a assinalar
10.ª-Benfica(f), D(0-1), Nuno Almeida, Beneficiados, Sem influência no resultado

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Épocas anteriores:

Sven-Goran Eriksson, the 'Little Genius' and the 'wrong woman'

"It seems strange to say it now, but there was a time when Sven-Goran Eriksson was famous for being a football manager.
Born in 1948 , Eriksson's playing career does not progress beyond Sweden's second tier.
His time as a right-back comes to an end when injury forces him to quit in 1975.
Becomes ex-team-mate Tord Grip's assistant at third-tier Degerfors, then takes control in 1977.
Moves to IFK Goteborg in 1979, wins five trophies, including Uefa Cup More titles follow at Benfica, which leads to jobs at Roma and Fiorentina, before returning to Benfica in 1989 for more success.
Five years with Sampdoria are followed by a glorious run at loaded Lazio, culminating in Serie A title in 2000.
Becomes England's first foreign manager in 2001 and takes team to three straight quarter-finals.
Hounded by the media, Eriksson loses England job after 2006 World Cup, the team are ranked fifth by Fifa.
A year after England exit, Eriksson gets Manchester City job, but is sacked in 2008.
A disastrous spell in charge of Mexico is followed by a bizarre stint at Notts County in 2009 , where he is duped into believing County are rich.
Ivory Coast's failure to get out of the group at the 2010 World Cup brings four-month stint to an end.
He takes Leicester City job, leaves a year later Linked with Leeds United, Ukraine and others, Eriksson opts for jobs in Bangkok and Dubai, before taking charge at Guangzhou R&F in 2013.

This, of course, was before we knew about Nancy, Ulrika, Faria, Roxy, Graziella, Malin, Debora and "the other women" Eriksson casually mentions in Sven: My Story, his picaresque account of life as an international playboy and football coach.
But back then, before he became a full-time celebrity, the relationships the Swede was best known for were with Roberto, Marcelo, Pavel, Juan and Michael, because for three decades Eriksson coached some of the greatest footballers - and the best teams - of the modern era.
As you may have noticed, Eriksson was recently in a newsroom or studio near you plugging his book with as much gusto as a jet-lagged 65-year-old could muster - and he passed through this one, too.
He had just arrived in the UK from China, where his 17th job in football management (across nine countries) has him pulling the strings at Guangzhou R&F.
So, Sven, just to warm up, how are Guangzhou R&F doing?
"Ah, well, the season finished yesterday", he said wearily (this was his fifth interview of the afternoon, and a colleague was loitering for number six).
"There was one game to play. I don't know if we finished fifth or sixth. So that's good."
It was sixth, Sven, 37 points behind local rivals Guangzhou Evergrande, so that's OK, although a little concerning you did not know where your team finished - there are managers of pub teams who can reel off Opta-like possession stats for their left-back these days.
Perhaps this Chinese adventure, worth a reported £2m a year, will be no more substantial than any of the other seven jobs Eriksson has held since losing the England gig, but let's move on to more exciting ground. 
Who was the most skilful player you ever worked with, Sven? One who would take your breath away in training?
"[Roberto] Mancini must be one of them," he said, leaning forward and sounding a lot more awake. "I had him as my captain at Sampdoria and brought him to Lazio."
"He was very important to his team. He'd phone the kit man, take training, organise travel. And what he could do with a ball. Wow."
"But I had one for a year, [Fernando] Chalana, you won't remember him…"
"He trailed off, and sat back in his chair. Was this reminiscence more than just a fleeting memory?"
I pushed on. Where was it, Sven? "Benfica - but he met the wrong woman", he said, without a flicker of self-awareness.
The wrong woman? "Yes, absolutely", he continued, matter-of-factly. "He went to Bordeaux after that, when they had a great team, but he never did it there and that was that. He had injuries".
And that was that, for Chalana and the anecdote.
Hold on a moment. This guy was a rising star from a small country who made a big move that did not quite pan out because of bad luck and woman trouble, leading to a slow decline - who are we talking about here? 
Beloved at Benfica, bemoaned in Bordeaux, Chalana's story is far more than a thinly stretched metaphor for Eriksson's career. He is Portugal's answer to George Best or Paul Gascoigne: that hoary old cliche, the flawed genius.
"Years before Futre, Figo, Simao, Quaresma, Ronaldo or Nani, Chalana is regarded as Portugal's first truly great winger", says Portuguese sports journalist Rui Catalão.
"He was also the typical Portuguese man of the 1980s: short, with a big moustache. Many people used to call him 'Asterix', or 'Chalanix', along with 'Pequeno Genial' (the Little Genius)".
His legend is based on a fine body of work between 1976 and 1984. Capped at 17, the winger's mazy dribbles and pinpoint crossing would help Benfica win five league titles and three cups by the time he was 25. 
But it was at the 1984 European Championship in France that Chalana would really scale the heights as he helped Portugal reach the semi-finals. There they would face the hosts; what followed was one of the greatest games in history.
In an end-to-end contest, Chalana provided the assists for Rui Jordao to first force extra time at 1-1, and then give Portugal the lead. As BBC commentator John Motson put it: "This little pocket genius provides another cross that cuts out every defender".
When France equalised with six minutes left, penalties seemed inevitable. And then, with 90 seconds to play, Portugal broke forward. Chalana tried to slip a pass inside, but Luis Fernandez intercepted it on the edge of the area.
Chalana clapped his hands in frustration. And well he might, because the moment before that pass was the height of his career.
Fernandez surged forward and picked out Jean Tigana. The midfielder glided into the area, where his cut-back was collected by Michel Platini and slammed into the net. It was his eighth goal in four games and he would get another in the 2-0 win over Spain in the final.
"Platini was the star of the competition, but there's no doubt Chalana was right next to him. He was as good as anyone else at the time", says Catalão.
Bordeaux's ambitious president Claude Bez shelled out £2.3m on the man who had nearly derailed Platini and co.
In France he would now be playing with four of the stars of the European Championship-winning team - Patrick Battiston, Alain Giresse, Bernard Lacombe and Tigana - and Bez hoped "Chalanix" would turn his French champions into indomitable Gauls.
He nearly did it. In a stop-start first season he helped Bordeaux to the semi-finals of the European Cup. They would lose 3-2 to Juventus on aggregate, and the Italians would progress to the final against Liverpool at Heysel, a dark and fateful occasion.
Chalana was never the same again, though. Constantly injured, at odds with the club's doctors and homesick for Benfica, he would return to the Estadio da Luz in 1987, but he had lost his sparkle.
Eriksson, in the meantime, was building his reputation for understated but effective football at Roma and Fiorentina. There was only a Coppa Italia with Roma in 1986 to show for his efforts, but he was winning admirers in Serie A, on and off the field as we now know, for his cool professionalism.
He and Chalana would be reunited in 1989, however, when Eriksson returned for a second stint at Benfica. He would see now for himself the damage the intervening years had done to his favourite winger.
In an interview with Portuguese newspaper A Bola, Chalana said he had nothing to say about Eriksson "as a coach, but he failed me as a man", claiming the manager made him train on his own.
"He said my ex-wife was the reason I didn't go further", Chalana added. "Like he can talk!"
The "Anabela" story, like Sven's own Casanova capers, may hold some water, though.
"It's true. She turned his head, spent his money. He was never the same again", says Fernando Eurico, a reporter for radio station Antena 1.
Catalão confirms Anabela's outspoken nature made them gossip-column favourites at a time when he should have been concentrating on his football.
"Anabela was a source of news for journalists and of trouble for her husband", says Catalao.
But Portuguese football expert Ben Shave sees Chalana more as a victim of his times.
"He was probably born slightly too early", says Shave.
"When he started, Portugal was just emerging from years of dictatorship, which basically vetoed any moves abroad, and that mind-set was still strong in the early 1980s."
"But Chalana going to France laid the foundations for others to venture outside the country. Players like Rui Barros, Figo and so on."
"If Chalana was five years younger, with more protection from referees, who knows what would have happened?"
Chalana finished his playing career in Portugal's second tier at Estrela Amadora in 1992. He had left Benfica in 1990, the year Eriksson took the Lisbon giants to the final of the European Cup. They would lose that game 1-0 to a famous AC Milan line-up, but go on to win another Portuguese title a season later.
With his stock high, Eriksson would return to the best league in the world, Serie A, in 1992. Chalana was moving into coaching, too, eventually becoming a coach at Benfica's academy and an assistant to the first team's manager.
He even had short stints as caretaker manager in 2002 and 2008, but is now back coaching the club's youngsters.
Chalana remains a popular figure with Benfica's fans, as does Eriksson, but his is a life led far from football's spotlight, much like his former manager's in China, but without the side-line in tabloid scandal.
Nancy Dell'Olio, Eriksson's official consort during his time in England, was on ITV's This Morning recently, defending her good name and rubbishing her former boyfriend's book.
She had not read it, sadly, but she has definitely got its number.
"He was one of the best managers in the world, but people are not interested in Sven the football manager", she said.
Returning to the interview and listening to Eriksson trying to justify his decision to play Paul Scholes on the left side of England's midfield, lament his bad timing at Manchester City and explain what went wrong at Leicester City, it was hard to avoid the sad truth about Sven's story: even the wrong woman can be right some of the time."

Cardozo dependentes

"Algures em 2010, Óscar Cardozo esteve umas jornadas lesionado e impedido de jogar. Na altura, Kardec, um avançado que surgia como uma promessa do futebol brasileiro, teve a sua oportunidade. Jogou vários jogos a titular, numa equipa que então atravessava uma boa fase. Golos, nem vê-los. Pela primeira vez desde que havia chegado ao Benfica, percebeu-se a falta que Tacuara fazia.
Nos últimos anos tem sido sempre assim: quando joga, Cardozo é assobiado por parte dos adeptos, para logo depois resolver partidas que parecem não ter solução. Quando não joga, torna-se evidente a falta que faz. Podemos ser levados a crer que isso acontece porque sem ele fica mais difícil marcar golos (que convém não esquecer é o propósito de uma partida de futebol), mas Cardozo faz falta também porque torna o jogo mais fácil para os colegas. O jogo contra o Braga foi disso exemplo. Sem Cardozo as oportunidades de golo escassearam, os extremos ficaram sem soluções e Lima rendeu bem menos.
Hoje, podemos estar agradecidos ao presidente do Fenerbahçe por não ter apresentado as garantias bancárias exigidas. Caso isso tivesse acontecido, o Benfica teria vendido o paraguaio por 12 milhões de euros. Não seria um mau negócio, mas sim um péssimo negócio. Desde logo porque as possibilidades de chegarmos a maio e celebrarmos o campeonato nacional seriam bem menores. Em todo o caso, o sai-não-sai do verão acabou por ter um efeito colateral positivo. Como por arte mágica, os assobiadores do paraguaio evaporaram-se das bancadas da Luz. Já não era sem tempo.

P.S. – Pela primeira vez em muito tempo, o Benfica tem fortes possibilidades de vir a ter uma equipa com muitos portugueses. Basta atentar no quinteto que gravita em torno dos B – André Almeida, Bernardo, Cavaleiro, Cancelo e André Gomes. Todos têm condições para singrar na equipa titular. Mas, para quem veja os jogos do Benfica B, há uma questão que se coloca já hoje: em que é que Djuricic é melhor do que André Gomes?"

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