Europa League Final 2013 - Benfica 1-2 Chelsea

[Jype 6,398]

Apparently Moses has picked up an injury. Benayoun to start?

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Apperantly Benifica were cursed by a former trainer, and they havent won a European final since... I'm pretty relaxed.

1962, Amsterdam. Bela Guttmann, the great Jewish coach of all time, led Benfica to maintain European title with a huge 3:5 Victory over Real Madrid, a year after winning 2:3 Barcelona in the final of the Champions league. After the celebrations in Lisbon, he contact the club president, asked to get bonus for the achievement. The president refused and Gutman responded: "I will quit and it will be another 100 years before Benfica will win the European Cup again."

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Apparently Moses has picked up an injury. Benayoun to start?

Don't even joke about that! Rami on the wing and Lamps next to Mikel in the pivot if that's true.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

1962, Amsterdam. Bela Guttmann, the great Jewish coach of all time, led Benfica to maintain European title with a huge 3:5 Victory over Real Madrid, a year after winning 2:3 Barcelona in the final of the Champions league. After the celebrations in Lisbon, he contact the club president, asked to get bonus for the achievement. The president refused and Gutman responded: "I will quit and it will be another 100 years before Benfica will win the European Cup again."

one should always be careful with Jewish curses. Ours is a certain Yossi Benayoun on the bench, who is condemned to never win anything. Let's see which curse is stronger^^

[Manuf 1,448]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/14/frank-lampard-chelsea-benfica-europa

Some team news from the Guardian.

Only have 18 players to select from?! That might mean Benayoun, Marin, Ferreira will all be on the bench!

I wouldn't mind seeing Ferreira make an apperance.

[Manuf 1,448]

1962, Amsterdam. Bela Guttmann, the great Jewish coach of all time, led Benfica to maintain European title with a huge 3:5 Victory over Real Madrid, a year after winning 2:3 Barcelona in the final of the Champions league. After the celebrations in Lisbon, he contact the club president, asked to get bonus for the achievement. The president refused and Gutman responded: "I will quit and it will be another 100 years before Benfica will win the European Cup again."

no offence, but isn't that typical

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

no offence, but isn't that typical

lol.... what can i do...

[Manuf 1,448]

lol.... what can i do...

be proud, my nation is known for the drinking habit and stealing. handling money is not the worst you could be stereotyped with

[Rambo 1,729]

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT! season 4 in 12 days

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

Rafa won't be such an idiot to actually start benayoun, but it is a guarantee that he will come on at some stage.

Benayoun is simply compeltely useless. he will never contribute anything a 15 year old amateur player can't do, too. With marin it is a different case. He is not only completely useless but also so über-motivated he is always likely to get a red card or so. On the other hand, Marin can - in one try out of 10 - fool the entire backline and create something out of nowhere. It is unlikely to happen, but when you are loosing, Marin has a 20% chance to ruin the game completely and maybe a 3-5% chance to change the game. With Benayoun you always can be 100% sure to lose.

It is impossible that we still are favourites now. Lima, cardozo, john (who is out hopefully), rodrigo, urreta, gaitan, are all better attackers than everything we got except Lamps, mata and oscar. If we do not go 2 or 3 up before the 70th minute there is no way we can win this, unless of course they completely fuck it up.

[The Mak 4,459]

If I'm totally honest, I don't see us winning. Even with Hazard or our full team or whatever, I just see it as a game similar to the Super Cup; as in, one side cares a lot more about the trophy than we do.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

If I'm totally honest, I don't see us winning. Even with Hazard or our full team or whatever, I just see it as a game similar to the Super Cup; as in, one side cares a lot more about the trophy than we do.

Except From Rafa and his CV...