Wednesday, February 11, 2009

17th of the Portuguese League

Photo: Colectivo 95

At the end of the past week witnessed a great classic of Portuguese football. FC Porto's lead is still a solitary point after coming from behind to claim a draw against second-placed SL Benfica at home on Sunday. In the 150th meeting between the Liga giants, Hassan Yebda's header put the visitors in front on the stroke of half-time, only for a Lucho penalty 18 minutes from the end to divide the spoils. In this game the fans filled the Dragon Stadium (FC Porto), over 50.000 spectators present. In the picture above we can see the color that the Colectivo, a group of supporters of FC Porto, gave the north side of the stadium. More than 2.500 supporters of SL Benfica moved to the Dragon Stadium to support the visiting team, creating a great support.
Meanwhile, Sporting of Lisbon was defeat by Sporting Braga to 3-2. Around 100 supporters assigned to the visiting team, were seeing their team, including two support groups, Red Boys and Bracara Legion. Among the home supporters Torcida Verde prepared a special reception for his team. The other groups, Juve Leo, DUXXI, Brigada, were present as usual.

Results:
Leixões (Porto)        2 - 0 Trofense (Trofa)
E. Amadora (Lisbon) 0 - 0 Vitória FC (Setubal)
Vitória SC (Guimarães) 2 - 1 Marítimo (Madeira)
Naval (Figueira) 0 - 4 Nacional (Madeira)
Rio Ave (V. Conde) 1 - 0 Académica (Coimbra)
Sporting (Lisbon) 2 - 3 Sporting Braga (Braga)
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FC Porto (Porto) 1 - 1 Benfica (Lisbon)
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Paços de Ferreira (=) 1 - 1 Belenenses (Lisbon)
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Classification:
1  - FC Porto    35
2 - SL Benfica 34
3 - Leixões 31
4 - Sporting CP 31
5 - SC Braga 29
6 - Nacional 29
7 - Marítimo 26
8 - Vitória SC 24
9 - E. Amadora 21
10 - Naval 19
11 - Académica 18
12 - P. Ferreira 16
13 - Belenenses 15
14 - Trofense 13
15 - Vitória FC 13
16 - Rio Ave 13


Fans
FC Porto    - SL Benfica 50110 (99% ocupação)
Sporting CP - SC Braga 22410 (45% ocupação)
V.Guimarães - Marítimo 14031 (47% ocupação)
Leixões - Trofense 2565 (26% ocupação)
Rio Ave - Académica 2043 (19% ocupação)
E. Amadora - V.Setúbal 962 (10% ocupação)
P. Ferreira - Belenenses 955 (18% ocupação)
Naval - Nacional 703 (7% ocupação)