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From Portugal, Santa Clara and Nacional are back to Primeira Liga. Both might be familiar names to some users here. Santa Clara played in the Conference League in the 2021/2022 season; and Nacional was a regular in the UEFA Cup/Europa League between 2004 to 2015. This also means Azores and Madeira h...

Portuguese league lost a lot of quality. Benfica despite terrible football in first half of season keep winning. FC Porto is just sht. Only played good in CL, in the league they lose against everyone. Braga had a decent team, but weak defence and no coach. Guimarães has lack of quality in squad but...

Interesting to note that after round 2 only 4 teams are yet to meet the fate of defeat. The 2 usual suspects, and 2 of the promoted teams - KFUM Oslo and Kristiansund. Is this a coincidence, or will one of the promoted teams have something competitive to offer this season?

This is indeed the same thing I posted somewhere recently. The top 4 in Portugal profit a lot but forget to develop the rest of their league. In Netherlands it appears to be more solidarity and more league development. The Conference league ackowledges much more than the Europa league did the depth...

The least interesting draw I´ve seen in a long time. PSV vs Dortmund might be were I can a surprise, otherwise... very predictable matches. FC Porto is always a disaster whenever they play an English team at this stage (with the exception of Man United in 2004). However Sporting did eliminate this A...

99.9% of the times, 7 points is enough to UEL. However, this is Dortmund we are talking about, they can have the honor to be the first team eliminated with 7 points. FC Copenhagen already holds that title, in the 06/07. 4th place, 7 pts (all at home), in a group with Man United, Celtic an Benfica. ...

Italians teams have been the ultimate kryptonite to the portuguese teams. Earlier this year all the big 4 got knocked out by Italian teams: Braga (Fiorentina) FC Porto (Inter) Benfica (Inter) Sporting (Juventus) And now this season, with only 2 matchdays in the group stages already 3 defeats... Napo...

Flawless day for Czechia, three wins out of three matches. Sure, next matchdays the matches will get more difficult so the points will not come so easily but anyway this is a huge step towards top15, in particular Slavia and Sparta are now already quite close to playing in spring. Czechia is behind...

Mainz 3 -1 Bayern... Wow, they might actully lose this year the title! Dortumund just needs to step up, they have a chance.

Huge comeback for Braga: 3-0 win over Benfica. Now they are 6pts behind Benfica, 1pt behind Porto. Big win for Braga, the second goal was a beauty. Benfica after unexpectedly failing the group stages in the League Cup, returns to the League with a heavy defeat. Could this mean trouble for them? The...

Regarding the League Cup, rather than highlighting the disappointments - I would rather note that we have 2 first time semi finalists. Arouca and Academico de Viseu. Academico de Viseu, currently playing in the II LIga, are a club from the center north of Portugal and I will face FC Porto in the sem...

Club Brugge heavy defeat at home was news in Portugal.

Genk seems unstoppable so far this season, the Cup is no exception.

Great play by Brazil, what a goal by Neymar!

Love watching this Croatia, such an organized and disciplined team.

Pioli said something like he needed to step up his level and be more consistent. Milan isnt Lille I don't regularly watch Milan play, is he irregular there too? This season I watched very little from Serie A teams but past season he was awesome. Absolutely, he was the player of Serie A last season ...