Now, you still have some decades to catch us.. Benfica alone, reached those stages more times than Sporting and Porto put together.
I also thought we were talking about European performance. As for titles I'll take the League title over any cup anyday, and we won it more recently than Sporting.
In terms of European performance, well, Sporting can't compare to us, sure, they made it to an UEFA cup final, but didn't win. You're still known as Sporting "Lisbon" or just "Lisbon" around Europe. We are Benfica everywhere around the world.
Well..I've given myself the trouble to get this, maybe some of you will get how laughing this discussion is...
These are the times Benfica, FC Porto and Sporting reached the final, semi finals, and quarter finals of european competitions:
Benfica
Final
61
62
63
65
68
83
88
90
Semi
72
81
94
Quarter
66
69
75
76
78
84
86
93
95
97
06
07
FC Porto
Final
84
87
03
04
Semi
94
Quarter
78
82
91
95
97
00
01
Sporting
Final
64
05
Semi
74
91
Quarters
83
86
88
08
I think it speaks for itself
Yes..."glorious".
Really bad sign for Sporting when Benfica, on their worst period of it history (last 20 years), still managed to do a lot better than Sporting..
Benfica fans never talk about the present, it is allways about the past...
What about the past 2/3 years?
No titles isnt it?
(yes, search a bit before making any comment...)
Thanks to FCP!
Did you think it would be like in Portugal, corruption without punishment?
UEFA aren't the portuguese corrupts..
I found it so ridicoulously stupid hearing Pinto da Costa and Porto fans saying that we couldn't achieve it on the field, we had to get to it on off field moves...when they are being punished precisely by have making corruption outside the field. Ahaahahaa!
If we only had Sporting trying to pass the group stage we would, because they never did, but Benfica usually goes through on those qualifying rounds...don't forget Benfica is the team who got more points for us in the UEFA ranking...so..
A little bit of justice was made. I don't even care if it was Benfica who was going or some other club, I just wanted to Porto had a little justice from what they do...and we all know that that's impossible in Portugal..
Nice one assumed corrupts!
1. Seems like having the "best" coach in the world isn't enough..
2. Yes, if Benfica offered prostitutes to the referees maybe we would win that league easily too.
3. Porto-Sporting 4-1...on matchday 4. yeah, but what's that relevance on that..if that was so, Benfica should have won the title the year we beat you 2-0 away and 1-0 home.
4. Those who give their view on the plays, are former referees, considering what FC Porto have been doing since Pinto da Costa joined the club, it's not difficult to understand they're biased. Besided, obviously they don't want to drag the Referees image to the dirt. Besides, what's the relevance on that? You tried to corrupt them. Stop.
5. Interesting of you bringing up the other match. Beira Mar-Porto. You also were 5 points ahead. So any bad result would put pressure on the team again, if they failed the league wasn't theirs. Matchday 30
