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February 28th, 2009

Clássico ends in scoreless draw

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The Clássico between Porto and Sporting at Estádio do Dragão ended in a scoreless draw leaving the defending champions at the top of the Liga table.
Os Dragões best chance to score came ten minutes into the match when Raul Meireles in swinging corner was nodded towards the goal by Cristian Rodríguez but superbly cleared off [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News


February 27th, 2009

Dragões welcome Sporting

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Following the mid-week draw against Atlético de Madrid in the Champions League, Porto welcome Sporting to Estádio do Dragão in a massive Liga clash.
For Sporting this is not only a chance to pull them within a point of the Azuis e brancos but equally rebound from a dreadful 5-0 drubbing by Bayern München on Wednesday. [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News
February 25th, 2009

Dragões gain advantage over Atlético de Madrid

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Os Dragões gained a strong advantage over Atlético de Madrid with a 2-2 draw at Vicente Calderón and sit on the verge of moving to the next stage of the Champions League.
The match started rough for the visiting Porto as Maxi Rodríguez gave Atlético the lead three minutes as slipped behind lax defending efforts to [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News
February 23rd, 2009

Atlético de Madrid Champions League squad list

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Ahead of Os Dragões Champions League match tomorrow evening against Atlético de Madrid at Vicente Calderón, Jesualdo Ferreira has named the following squad list:
Bruno Alves, Cissokho, Farías, Fernando, Fucile, Helton, Hulk, Lisandro, Lucho González, Mariano, Nuno, Pedro Emanuel, Raul Meireles, Rodríguez, Rolando, Sapunaru, Stepanov, Tarik Sektioui and Tomás Costa.
Enjoy the match and I will provide [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News
February 21st, 2009

Dragões defeat Paços de Ferreira 2-0

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The Dragões continued their eleven match unbeaten streak with a 2-0 victory over Paços de Ferreira.
Hulk opened the scoring for Porto fifteen minutes in with a brilliant left-footed shot to the opposite far corner. Porto continued to pressure as four minutes later the score was nearly doubled when Raul Meireles’ cross was headed just over [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News


February 19th, 2009

Porto v Paços de Ferreira match preview

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With a Champions League match against Atlético Madrid on Tuesday, Jesualdo Ferreira is insisting the Azuis e brancos are focused on Saturday’s match against Paços de Ferreira.
“This match is, traditionally, difficult for Porto. Paços de Ferreira is in the Cup’ semi-final and has the fourth best attack in the league. They are a positive squad [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News
February 15th, 2009

Os Dragões score late to defeat Rio Ave

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Os Dragões scored late to defeat Rio Ave 3-1 at Estádio do Dragão to maintain their eleven match unbeaten string. With the victory Porto maintains first place position in the Liga table, one point above Benfica.
Jesualdo Ferreira side came out fast with Hulk’s close range effort stopped brilliantly by Rio Ave ‘keeper Márcio Paiva. Only [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News
February 14th, 2009

Porto v Rio Ave match preview

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Following last weeks 1-1 draw against Benfica in the Clássico, Os Dragões sit first in the Liga table. With Rio Ave coming into Estádio do Dragão on Sunday, Jesualdo Ferreira faces a number of difficult choices as his side had a great amount of difficult against the squad earlier in the year.
For Rio Ave [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News
February 8th, 2009

Porto – Benfica Clássico ends as a draw

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The great battle between Porto and Benfica ended in a 1-1 draw at Estádio do Dragão.
With the draw Porto maintains its one point lead over Benfica in the race for the title with Sporting dropping four points off following a 3-2 loss to SC Braga.
Quique Sanchez Flores side put forth a strong defending effort and [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News
February 6th, 2009

Dragões v Benfica preliminary match preview

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If you are a fan of Football in Portugal the Porto – Benfica match needs little introduction. A clash between Porto and its southern neighbour Lisbon that conjures up memories of none other than the great Eusebio, amongst the many others.
Since its very first match in 1912, the two sides have met two-hundred forty times [...]

Category Category: Porto Team News





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