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Benfica's starting eleven: Eduardo; Maxi Pereira, Luisão, Jardel and Capdevila; Javi Garcia an Witsel; Bruno César, Aimar and Nolito; Nélson Oliveira. Bench: Artur, Cardozo, Gaitán, Matic, Miguel Vítor, Saviola and Luís Martins.

2014 Champions League Final will be played at the Cathedral of Light Btw, Benfica is playing against Porto today at 20:45 (League Cup Semi-finals). Check it out

In the 09/10 season, right? The match that decided the champion . Those you metioned are some of our key players. Also Luisão, Garay, Javi, Maxi, Artur (it's been said that united has an eye on him)... There are also some young powers like Nelson Oliveira, the Silver Ball, Top Scorer and Vice Champion of the U20 World Cup, and Rodrigo, the kid that came from Real Madrid and that was on loan to Bolton last season. Great expectations in these 2 kids + Witsel and Gaitán. Saviola is just not the same anymore. He still is a very talented and experienced player but he doesn't have much more to offer in the pitch than Cardozo and the kids. Would say he is going to leave next summer. Hopefully Aimar holds up a few more seasons.

May the best team win

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Thanks, happy to be here. Have you ever been to Portugal? Do you usually watch Benfica?

It's funny you point that out. Simões was probably one of the biggest reasons of Eusébio's success. Still, almost 0 people in Portugal know him. I just feel like sometimes people think we had a crappy team and always had crappy teams except that guy who came from Africa that has more goals than games in his carrer. Of course Eusebio made the difference. He would make the difference in any team in football history, and without him Benfica wouldn't be the same. But then again, Benfica wouldn't be the same without any of the players in that team. Or in the 50's / 70's / 80's / early 90's team. I think that when people think of Benfica they think "they had Eusebio but they had any other good player ever", wich isn't true. We have 10 european finals, but only 5 of them were in the 60's. We are the 3rd clube with more presences in Quarter-Finals, the 6th team with most european games played and 4th or 5h team with more Champions League finals. I'm not trying to grab about myself here . I'm not talking about you in specific of course. That's how we feel the general opinion of the a football fan is. I don't think there will be any 'fight' between the players on any of the games, eheh About AVB, did you guys aprove Roman Abramovich's decision?

Speaking of Eusebio - Milan, Inter, Arsenal and Spurs have already been on the Eusébio Cup. Next June is Real's turn. I don't know if you guys know but Chelsea will be at the Eusébio Cup in June/August 2013.

Are you a fan of any portuguese club? And can you tell me why are you not much of a Benfica fan? Eusebio is like an ambassador of the club, or a honorary president. We really like him, for what he has done for us and for the person he is. Very loyal, passionate and humble. But although he was one of the 5 best players ever imo, I don't understand why some people say that without Eusebio we were nobody. He arrived at 1961. At that time we were the current european champions and we were already the most successful portuguese club.

Thanks! We'll see who wins. We understand perfectly that to become champions here it's not enough to be better, we need to be 3x better, good enough to beet the 4-3-3-3 formation. Every avatar with Pablo in it is great

Do you guys think RDM is only a short term coach or will he remain as Chelsea's coach next season?

Great to see him back into celebrating goals. It was starting to be painful to see player like him without scoring for so many games.

There's no need for this type of comments, really... Chelsea is unarguably favorite.

I don't know wich forum you've been at, but I don't think we are tottaly convinced we will progress. It was important for us to avoid certain teams. Chelsea is an extremely hard team but that allow us to dream. We were happy to play Chelsea mainly beacause it's a great team, and the atmosphere at the Cathedral of Light at big european games is unmatchable. Of course Chelsea's favorite, but I think both teams have good chances. We don't plan to win the Champions League. Imo we've done our obligation and anything better than this a bonus. Our goal is to win the Portuguese League and to be regularly at this fase so that in the future we can dream with something more... That 'something more' could have happened in 2006 but you can't just beat Barcelona, if you know what I mean. Honestly, I think it's against UEFA laws. BTW, we don't really care about the City x Sporting game. I don't think portuguese teams rape english teams constantly like I read somewhere. Actually portuguese teams' statistics in England soil is quite sad. Alttough I think Benfica's performance in the last couple of years in England has come to take a better course with good displays against United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Everton. Too bad that 09/10 Anfield game. Oh wel...

Great to meet you guys in the Champions League. I think it's the first time in history, so I'm really looking forward to the match. It will also the return of Ramires and David to the 'Cathedral of Light' I can't say it's an easy draw. Chelsea has had better european performances than Benfica in the last decade, and although you're going through a bad fase right now, you are still one of the best in Europe. But we can't complain - Chelsea is slightly favorite, but it was good for us to avoid the Real, Barcelona and Bayern. After APOEL and Marseille, you guys were our first choice (as I'm sure we were you're second or third choice). It will be 2 really hard games, but it's a draw that allow us to dream with another presence in the semi-finals. I hope I can participate in the forum and discuss with you guys. It's OK, right? We also have a forum with an English section: http://serbenfiquist...forum/index.php I invite you to participate and have a chat with us. If you have any doubt about Lisbon, tickets, anything, we will be happy to help you PS: Why do I feel a bit of tension here? Congrulations on the victory today. Great to see the good old Torres back