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23.11.2005


20.45 MET, Oporto, Portugal


Well discuss the Game,

I think porto is going to win 3-0... Almeida and Lisandro to score.

Porto is coming out of a 5-1 home win against Academica coimbra, while rangers lost to celtic 3-0 away.

Good luck Porto. I cant predict the score beacause Porto are just so unpredictable. With a mix of skill(GypsyPrince) and luck they will win hopefully.

ya Porto has been very unlucky this year in the CL Porto always seems to mess it up towards the end and lose. If they can just hold it together then they will win no problem they have alot of skill on that team so cmon Porto show them what the portuguese league is all about.

Im expecting a Porto victory. Rangers are in terrible form and Porto should take advantage.

Good luck Porto

Porto's Squad
Guarda-redes: Vítor Baía e Helton;

Defesas: Pedro Emanuel, Pepe, Bruno Alves, Bosingwa, Marek Cech, César Peixoto e Ricardo Costa;

Médios: Diego, Ibson, Jorginho, Lucho Gonzalez e Paulo Assunção;

Avançados: Ricardo Quaresma, Alan, Ivanildo, Hugo Almeida, Lisandro Lopez e McCarthy.

My line-up would would be the same against A.Coimbra, except i really want to see Diego so I would start Diego and Ibson off.

I hope our defence will be strong, and we play ALL 90 MINUTES and don't give up. I hope RQuaresma has a strong game so he can create problems in the defence.
I don't know what to predict, but as long as at the end of the night Porto win and Inter win, I will be very pleased!
FORCA PORTO e FORCA HARRY POTTER

I think he will start Diego although Ibson played well against Académica. Just to add that "suprise" factor in the line up. But then again, he can also be thinking that Diego isnt exactly the biggest guy to compete with the more physical game of Rangers, but so isn't Ibson, maybe he will start McCarthy or Jorginho since they're bigger... I really don't know.

I would love another goleada like the Académica one... I was missing one of those... but I know the dificulty is much higher.

here is a clip of the match preview

http://www.uploadsend.com/d.php?file=true&filepath=4432

To be honest, barring a huge stroke of luck or a shock Rangers performance, you should win this rather convicingly. We have had the worst start to a season in nearly 20 years and cant buy o goal right now.

Missing our one performer and best player, a club in crisisn, 2 wins in 13 games, a manager about to be sacked after thsi game and away against a team like yours in fine form - we havent a hope in hell.

Can always pray though. If either team wins this, they will qualify imo.

If Co A just keeps the same line up than I think Porto will get a comfortable win. It would be nice for Diego to get some playing time, but Lucho is doing great behind the fowards, and Ibson can be a surprisingly rough player. Porto needs to keep the same line up as last week.

porto will win

45 minutes left to kick off.. heheh.. cant wait..

hope he starts marek. cech is better at defending than cesar... but cechs crosses are sometimes just to laugh about ..

first half over.

cant believe no one commenting over here... quaresma did some awsome skills and passed thru 2 players with ease lol

2-0 half time

wtf no.. lol 0-0 ..

HT...0-0
RQuaresma clearly has been the best Porto player at the half. Lots of chances for Porto. Inter helping us with 2-0 at half-time goals from Figo and Adriano. We need to beat this stubborn defence! Forca Porto and hopefully Quaresma can keep playing like this!

WTF!!
EMANUEL FOR ALMEIDA??? WTF IS HE THINKING

our best defender and most experienced guy!!

hugo do what u can..

Ya, I know, im pretty nervous now!

who´s in emanuel´s place in defense? if he puts almeida, someone has to be making emanuel´s place!

porto score

1-0
excellent diving header

GOOOLOOO!!! LICHA LOPEZ SCORING AGAIN!

substitution
deigo out
alaves in

rangers score
and a small fight started
2 yellow cards

OMG FUCK U ADRIANSE.... WHY DID HE PUT EMANUEL OUT he should have put jorginho out ... OH FUCK -.-

full time

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS we need an artmedia win to go through or a inter win....... Keep Believing Boys!

oh man, very unlucky for Porto.
Rangers just played for the draw and they got it .
good luck to Porto for the last game, they bring some excitement to the CL.

bad game by porto, i really did think they were gonna win

porto are in the same situation as last season, we need to win and hope for Inter to get a win as well. But with Inter already qualified, will they even bother putting a strong line up?

Porto are the most unlickiest team right now. 65% ball possession. 20 shots against a team that just defended. And what did Rangers get? 35% and only 3 shots, yes 3 shots. And only one of those 3 shots hit the target and it turned into a goal. Unbeleiveble how a team doesn't have to do anything and still get rewarded.

Porto got robbed in the last minute. Lisandro's shot was saved from close range and Assuncao's rebound was CLEARED OFF THE LINE!

Artmedia away is not gonna be easy, but we can still make it. I just hope Inter can do us a HUGE favour.

Crazy isn't it. we can beat Inter, but not Rangers.

porfavor, pongan habilidades de quaresma vs rangers,gracias, el problema miop es que no puedo ver los partidos del oporto porque soy de peru, y no tengo la señal para ver este tipo de partidos, gracias

really unlucky.

Only one team showed up today and that was Porto. An unfair result. Rangers very forunate to get a point.

Luck was just not on our side tonight like it hasnt been throughout this whole group stage. I think our chances of qualifying are very slim. Porto will bounce back with a win vs Artmerda but I hope its enough for us to advance, and chances are Inter will not use a fully strong squad for there game against Rangers.

I havent seen the game yet so I can't comment on what went wrong, but once again Co is the one to blame. When will this man ever learn? starting Jorginho over Almedia is a joke and a half!

I believe Porto can do it, just like last season.

bad news today, but u know what, Porto still can make it, and it is very likely that can happen.

Inter are a much stronger team then Rangers and i am confident that Rangers will lose, and Porto should get the win against Artmedia.

If they dont, then they should be ashamed of themselves and there performance.

Heres the story for the game

http://www.pfutebol.com/news/Rangers%20sec...0in%20Porto.htm

Put this into perspective and stop looking at it through blue and white tinted spectacles.

Porto are the 9th best team in the Champions League, Rangers, by default, are 23rd. Rangers shouldn't be anywhere near qualifying for the next round of the Champions League, but are because they took 4 points off the 9th best team in Europe, that has to be applauded.

Rangers last night hung in there and hung in there, managed to get up the park, and then we scored. If Porto can't kill us off its hardly Rangers, fault, credit to the Gers for managing to keep it at 1-0

Were Rangers lucky to come out with a draw? Probably yes, but thats Football, when you are playing a team technically superior to yourselves what kind of tactics do you expect us to play?

It might be difficult for a Portista to take the fact their team has underacheived in the Champions League this season, and that Porto don't have to defend rigidly against the teams better than them, because Porto have just as good an attack and can give it a go.

Rangers are privileged to be in the position they are in, no doubt about it, but it is through no fault of our own, we have played well, and got exactly what we deserved.

And a final note on the Porto team, after seeing them twice, all the talent in the world, but the pathetic crumbling antics whenever the game got physical doesn't make for good viewing, Celtic complained about it in Seville and they lost, but Rangers have took 4 from 6, and the diving was pathetic

i mean what 1-1 man i had a good chuckle at that, did we even string 5 passes together, yeah you were robbed but u didn't get past kyriagos and andrews much you play too wide.

How can Porto score with the whole team back? Doesn't matter which team Rangers played against, when you have your whole team back it's never gonna be easy to score.

CaptainCarrots don't start being a Celtic fan with the diving because Porto never did dive in the finals and they didn't do it yesterday. Co A our coach is very,very strict. I mean McCarthy wasn't allowed to play for 2 games because of his hair sytle for crying out loud. Diving for him is unacceptable.

Played well? pulling your whole team back isn't so impressive.

To be fair though, we had to -play against the exact same thing in our two games against Artmedia, and both times were very very unlucky not to win, as we played them off the park.

For all your fancy tricks and neat passing, most of it was just showboating and our defence lapped it up.

As I said before, we are a team with no confidence, no strikers, no attacking midfielders and no wingers. I knew we would play for a draw and I knew we would be lucky to get it. Your team is better than ours and you were unlucky yes. But, like the first leg, you have no killer instinct.

And Portista, we had no choice but to defend for our lives. we ARE NOT good enough to beat you on your own turf right now. Not in the current state of our football club.

Follow Follow Rangers. Great result.

Why the hell do you have to bring in Celtic to this, Diving, what diving? How about those stupid tackles on RQuaresma in the game, the ref barely showed yellow, then at the end of the game, RQuaresma got feed up with crap and went at Ferguson, and him and Ferguson got yellow. Ya, now put in Quaresma's view stupid takles no yellows, Diving...haha, more like hard stupid tackles!
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But, whatever. I think Porto can beat Artmedia, and Inter will win, i know Manicini, doesn't like to lose. If not, and Rangers go through, o well, If Porto win we can at leaqst go to Uefa Cup.

Sorry, but wee QUaresma was falling over all through the first half without being touched. I didnt see it off many of your other players, not enough to get upset about, but all Quaresma went down like a ton of bricks, over and over again, without being touched. If you couldn't see those dives, you were watching a different game mate. Be honest.

He is lucky he didnt hurt Ferguson with that stamp too. No wonder wee Barry went for him.

Ok, whatever, did you watch the same game?I just made a comp on him, maybe you should see it, he gets hit all the time, just go check the Quaresma thread, ask those who have downloading it. Didn't hurt him, wow, the guy is a baby, i wish Quaresma went for him, and got him down, as they deserved it for the stupid tackles!

So are you saying he did not dive once in this game against us? I'm not saying he isnt a good player, he has loads of talent. He is just a diving talented player. I dont expect you to understand how much that riles Scottish football fans, most Portugese fans don't, but it really gets to me. A player falling down with no contact is despicable.

The last part of your post is not even worth responding to. Your maturity seems to be summed up there.

your joking right?

quaresma maybe dived once in the whole game!..

he was beeing touched all the time..

I think you guys are just jealous of seeing him passint easily thru 2 defenders and tunnelling them loads of times...

and the excuse u scottish fans have, is all the time, the diving.
LOL
I really hope you lose against inter and we win against artmedia!!!

fuck yeah

Excuses are for when you lose, I admit Celtic's in Seville was an excuse, they lost....

Rangers have taken FOUR points from SIX against the ninth best team in Europe, that means we didn't LOSE!!

Quaresma was going down all of the time, I have also said before he is full of talent, get your own team's house in order first before you say we use it as an excuse!

Im quite happy that Quaresma was "tunneling" our players all the time, because he done FUCK all with it, wasn't even him that set up the goal!

Yeah, Rangers were lucky to escape with a draw, but it's Porto's fault that they didn't score again, no-one elses, just Porto's!

Nearly 100% right... the post near the end that prevent us from scoring had some fault too... I'll tell you guys I honestly saw the post move...!

I didn't want to come to this thread... bahhhhhh I still wanna hit someone and its nearly a week after. I'm gonna have bad grades just because of this, I cannot concentrate properly when Porto does these kinds of results.