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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Chelsea Interested in Eliaquim Mangala
The names for a potential new centre back for Chelsea are spinning around, and there’s a good chance, according to the French press, that they might be very interested in signing Eliaquim Mangala of Porto, who has been turning a lot of heads this season.
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FC Porto – Champions Forever While Selling Everyone
The amazing success of Porto in the Portuguese league continues, winning nine league titles in the last 11 seasons, keeping their dominance in Portugal despite their habit of selling their best players (at incredible prices) after (usually) only a season or two of making the most of their arrivals, with James Rodriguez and Joao Moutinho leaving to Monaco being the latest expensive examples.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Liverpool Might Sign Christian Atsu
Liverpool don’t have the money to try and compete for the top players and prospects in European football, so they’re looking at the second and third tier players, scouring foreign leagues for cheap finds of great talent. It also means a much broader pool of talent than the limited few the bigger clubs usually look at. Christian Atsu of Porto might be one of those “cheap finds” that turn out to be a very good piece of business.
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Benfica Lost the Title to Porto Because James Rodriguez is a Dirty Diver
Chances were against Benfica heading into the final day of the season. They did beat Moreirense 3-1, but that wasn’t enough, as Porto beat Pacos 2-0, beginning their win thanks to James Rodriguez diving, being awarded a penalty and getting an opponent sent off, eventually leading to a 2-0 win and a third consecutive Portuguese title.
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The Better Team Didn’t Win (Porto vs Benfica)
This is what the ‘match of the season’ should be about. All in or you’re out. Porto needed to win to reclaim the top spot in the Portuguese league, while Benfica needed a win to clinch only their third league title in 11 years. The visitors approach of playing to draw seemed to be working, until the 91st minute, when Kelvin scored the winning goal in one of his only touches during his cameo appearance.
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Kelvin Scores the Goal That Probably Decides the Championship (Porto vs Benfica)
It was destined to be; the match between Porto and Benfica, a week before the end of the season in Portugal, deciding the fate of the championship. Kelvin, a 19-year old Brazilian talent, came off the bench and 12 minutes later, a bit into injury time, scored a stunning winner that gives Porto the lead heading into the final week of the season in one of the more dramatic turn of events anyone could have imagined.
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Primeira Liga – Porto vs Benfica Predictions
It had to come down to this – an O Classico match, a week before the end of the season, with a chance for Porto to sneak back up to the top spot in the Portuguese Primeira Liga, or for Benfica to finally get rid of their Dragao demons and possibly clinch the title a week early.
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Benfica Really F%^& Up When it Mattered the Most
Playing at home against Estoril, Benfica should have kept their four point lead over Porto with the Portuguese Primeira Liga coming to a close, and setting up their O Clássico to be one in which they’ll be quite calm instead of knowing it might become the title decided. Instead, they dropped points in a 1-1 […]
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FC Porto & Benfica are the Only Undefeated Teams in Europe
Out of the top 20 football leagues in Europe, only two teams, who happen to be from the same division, are still undefeated this late in the season. Benfica and Porto, battling for the title in the Portuguese Primeira Liga, having gone 25 matches up to this point with a league loss.
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Manchester United – Trading Anderson for James Rodriguez
Some news and transfer rumors never go away, which means there might be some truth in them. It’s long been known that Manchester United are very interested in James Rodriguez of Porto, but instead of paying a huge fee for him, which will likely be over €30 million, suggesting a trade of sending Anderson, a former player of the Dragons, in order to get the Colombian star.