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Betting.Betfair
on Feb 16, 2012 at 08:17:11 AM
Manchester City are in the process of learning that any slight slip up can prove catastrophic when fighting for major honours, but their Europa League opponents Porto have demonstrated this season that the punishments are even more severe in Portugal.
Ex-assistant Vitor Pereira has fared fairly admirably in the unenviable gig of succeeding treble-winner Andre Villas-Boas, yet one defeat and just 11 dropped points has been enough to leave them trailing Benfica by five back home, and two Champions League losses spelled the end of that adventure.
As a result, they risk finishing a campaign in which they have been solid at the back, pretty effective going forwards and have racked up the victories with nothing other than the Portuguese Super Cup, no real consolation, to show for it.
It...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on May 18, 2011 at 08:14:10 AM
So overwhelming has Porto's domestic dominance has been this season that it's difficult to argue against the 1.5 about the Dragons winning the all-Portuguese Europa League final. However, Sporting Braga, who are a distant 8.2 to pull off a shock win, are nothing if not obdurate and their defensive record suggests that free-scoring Porto might have to settle for a slender margin of victory.
Porto's season can only be described as sensational. At the start of the season they took a gamble on an unproven 32-year-old with just one year's top-flight coaching experience to his name, but André Villas-Boas has been an overnight sensation. After taking over a side that finished third last season, Villas-Boas has guided the team to the league title with five matches to spare, a place in the Europa...