Mauras
Premiership
- 7 October 2002
My doubt was started last year.
We all know that it all started with Porto seeing Manchester out of the CL with 2 lessons of tactics in 2004.
After another Euro 2004 Portugal win against England (the usual) Sporting CP faces 2 english teams.Middlesborough and Newcastle are spanked out of UEFA cup with relative ease by a Sporting CP team that could hardly compare to them in budget and overating.
Then comes Benfica this year and spanks a ridiculous Manchester United with 11 reserves. One could think.. "ok, it's probably one in a million".
Today the same benfica that recently lost 3 out of 4 games in the portuguese league (one of them home against Sporting CP 1-3 without a single goal chance) beats the pseudo euro champion Liverpool without even having to play anything... a single ocasion was enough to see Liverpool out 1-0, that "spooky" team that Mourinho finds so hard to beat every time.
Now don't get me wrong... I'm a fan of EPL and a follower but... is it me or english football is a bit overrated? How the hell can one explain such ease from low budget theoretically inferior portuguese teams in beating those enriched english clubs?
Anyone one who can should explain...
PS - Tonight Liverpool got what it deserved... coward tactics deserve hurtful results, it that's the CL champion let me outahere...
PS2 - Please spare me the "arsenal did it" reply. Look at the list of games I've posted and get me some kind of interesting explanation, not the arsenal achievements against another european joke as current Real.
We all know that it all started with Porto seeing Manchester out of the CL with 2 lessons of tactics in 2004.
After another Euro 2004 Portugal win against England (the usual) Sporting CP faces 2 english teams.Middlesborough and Newcastle are spanked out of UEFA cup with relative ease by a Sporting CP team that could hardly compare to them in budget and overating.
Then comes Benfica this year and spanks a ridiculous Manchester United with 11 reserves. One could think.. "ok, it's probably one in a million".
Today the same benfica that recently lost 3 out of 4 games in the portuguese league (one of them home against Sporting CP 1-3 without a single goal chance) beats the pseudo euro champion Liverpool without even having to play anything... a single ocasion was enough to see Liverpool out 1-0, that "spooky" team that Mourinho finds so hard to beat every time.
Now don't get me wrong... I'm a fan of EPL and a follower but... is it me or english football is a bit overrated? How the hell can one explain such ease from low budget theoretically inferior portuguese teams in beating those enriched english clubs?
Anyone one who can should explain...
PS - Tonight Liverpool got what it deserved... coward tactics deserve hurtful results, it that's the CL champion let me outahere...
PS2 - Please spare me the "arsenal did it" reply. Look at the list of games I've posted and get me some kind of interesting explanation, not the arsenal achievements against another european joke as current Real.