Friday, August 25, 2006

Porto are my strong choice ........


..... to start the Superliga season with a home win.

The Blue and Whites took the title last season by 7 points, finishing 22 points clear of the 3rd placed club and ending the season with 9 wins, from the last 10 starts.

Their new coach, Jesualdo Ferreira, will be desperate to start with 3 points, in front of, what looks likely to be, a capacity crowd at the Estadio do Dragao, where they boasted a 13-3-1 record last season. He called up the following 19 players for tonight's match .......

Adriano, Alan, Anderson, Bosingwa, Bruno Alves, Cech, Helton, Ibson, Jorginho, Lisandro, Lucho, Paulo Assunção, Pepe, Quaresma, Raul Meireles, Ricardo Costa, Tarik, Vierinha and Vítor Baía.

Visitors, Uniao Leiria, would almost certainly settle on a repeat of last seasons 7th place finish, they will not expect to get much from the trip to Porto, as 13 previous visits have yielded just one point ! Think that sequence will continue and Ferreira will get the win he craves.

4 points Porto -1.25 goals 1.78 asian line.

Good Luck.

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