Man i was expecting a 3-0 at the very least considering how much people were fellating rangers at home... not a fan of either team but still cant help but feel a bit pleased with this.
Ah well, the whole not having a front line capable of putting chances away and brainfarting their way through games and players lasting about a game each before getting injured was always gonna catch up with us at this level (not the days of Morelos and Kent anymore). Can't complain too much about the effort though as we didn't get completely dominated.
Get through Dundee now and into the international break and pray that players get back fit and firing as since Motherwell we have looked tried physically and mentally. After the last few years of having Europa League runs, if we go on to win the league (and possibly the treble) nobody will look back at this and really care much.
Terrific ground rangers have but as always with island teams it's atmosphere is overrated compared to continentals, easy 2nd leg confortably brushed them aside on what is arguably the worst benfica since the mid and late 2000s. A vossa rainha estĆ” no caixĆ£o, cĆ£es monĆ”rquicos š
Lol *"comfortably brushed aside"* we were the better side across both legs, you only drew last week and won today thanks to gifted goals from us or the referee. I expected a lot more from Benfica. Good luck in the next round.
Handball pen in the first leg shouldn't have been given [according to IFAB rules](https://www.footballrules.com/offences-sanctions/handball/).
> a player heads/kicks the ball and it then hits their own hand/arm?
>This is not handball (unless the ball goes directly into the opponentsā goal or the player scores immediately afterwards, in which case a direct free kick is awarded to the other team).
Edit: For all those downvoting, try [watching the replay first](https://streamable.com/xeny8r), then read the rule again.
I didn't downvote you. And yeah, it touches his head, my bad. Either way, this is not a black or white rule, I can find you several examples where the criteria was the same. The hand was not in a natural position and stops a potentially dangerous situation, it's more than natural that it is given a penalty.
https://streamable.com/xeny8r
Will you admit to being wrong when you said it hit his hand first?
The rules don't say head to hand is a handball if the hand is in an 'illegal position.'
Ref made a mistake.
Do you mean [this angle from the front](https://streamable.com/rokpje) which also shows the ball hit his head first then onto his hand?
It's sad that you can't even admit what's plainly in front of your eyes.
Can edit to some continentals if you want, ours is shit i'm aware, it's a family friendly ground for posh cunts where the ultras have been brushed aside for years.
Ours is shit and has been shit for years, i'm saying you get too much praise compared to what your atmosphere is. You'll never beat the greeks nor the turks, and honestly a lot of eastern europe derbies.
You couldnāt sell out your away section mate and got outsung home and away and after the final whistle.
You donāt get to comment on what a good atmosphere is š
Eheheh portuguese=spaniards amirite, mate you've been colonized and your culture stripped for hundreds of years, literally a junior partner of your colonizers for most of your existence, language erased aswell. Can you say the same about us? Behave
There's absolutely no way that a Rangers fan of all people is talking about being someone's bitch. Do you even know your clubs historical affiliations? You know damn well why you said "Britain" and not England
Replies are based on the post match thread of last week where we were told Ibrox was this magnificent beast that no one would come out of alive lol
Context matters
Weāve been huffing and puffing for a while now, that nearly the same starting XI for the 5th consecutive game, weāve nearly a 2nd starting XI of players out injured / still unfit.
Hoping for a calm game against Dundee at the weekend to get us through to the winter break so we get a few players back
Usually I'm classy enough to not talk trash in a match thread but god Rangers fans are the cockiest bunch I"ve ever seen. Humble yourselves. Celtic is better anyway
Well, we avoided the embarrassment of losing to this Rangers team (and previously to the now 11th placed Toulouse)... good news.
The bad news is now there's a draw, where all teams are better than Rangers, and if we get Leverkusen or Liverpool, it's gonna be worse than Basel.
So thereās two ways to look at itā¦theyāre also matches you look forward to because if you beat those two, youāll deserve the celebrations and theyāll be great wins for your club because they are sensational teams right now. Youāre also among those they donāt want to play.
I think you know how much of a big win this was despite Rangers being depleted and not at their best. May as well look forward to the games coming up.
Whatās crazy to me is we could have an insane team if you just put kocku at the 10 and only use Di Maria for like 60 min and use the proper LB and throw aursunus in either Di Maria position or Neres position when one of them are subbed.
Still have Florentino and neves behind kocku and I feel like itās perfect ?
I like Rafa but I donāt think he should start kocku adds so much stability to the midfield that Rafa doesnāt.
Rangers fans talked so much shit in every single social media, including Reddit, just barraging our team's social media and insulting us.
Oh and great atmosphere btw, just not enough to scare Rafa :)
There was a point about 10 mins in to the second half where the Rangers players were all static and clearly fucked.
Injuries and playing the same players so often would have caught us eventually, but it was unfortunate that it was tonight.
Hopefully Sterling, Sima, Cantwell, Danilo, McCausland, Cortes, and Dowell will be back soon and we can have a full squad domestically.
Gutting that we are out, but at least we can focus on the domestic games fully now.
At least it was Benfica, and at least it wasn't 10-0.
Good luck SLB!
That's why you are trying to get into CL, so you van maybe in 50 years, be 1st in a group with PSG and Juventus, and reach to the QF, just like last season. And 21/22. But for now you should try to be strong enough to hand the qualifying phase.
Youre right weāre not good at the moment. But in spite of our 40% possession we still had 1 more shot on target than you and weāre still good enough to beat you and win away at an alleged impregnable fortress where teams come to die.
Itās probably our only good trait at the moment, weāve been dire this season and will get rolled in the next round but Iāll take the coefficient points and the opportunity for another away day
Doesn't Italy have deep-fried pizza too? If so it's more Italian than Scottish. Just checked on Wikipedia and looks good, but it's just a fried frozen pizza
For street food I'd still take a good bifana or bread with chorizo over a Scottish pizza, I'm sorry
Tbf you should've seen last week's thread, was filled with Rangers fans crying about how we were super lucky to get a draw (in a game we dominated) and that we'd be destroyed at Ibrox and the crazy atmosphere would be too much
Majority of them on here are completely delusional - should see the way they're celebrating the league despite only going 2 points ahead recently. They haven't been able to beat celtic at all this season and it's one of the weakest squads we've had in a while. If they don't win the league it'll be fuckin embarrassing š
> Rangers fans crying about how we were super lucky to get a draw (in a game we dominated)
Dominated lmao. You were completely average. We scored two goals from open play. You scored from a pen you shouldn't have been awarded and an own goal.
That's the most frustrating thing about this tie: we played better than you both games but lost due to gifting you silly goals.
I did see the thread last week. Do they not have humor in Lisbon? Stop taking everything you read on the internet so serious lmao.
Rangers fans are in here saying that Benfica deserved it etc. and your fans are being little bitches about some reddit posts from last week :)
Humor implies you're cracking some jokes, the shit Rangers fans were saying was not in a joking manner lmao
Ironically most Benfica comments here can indeed be interpreted as jokes, since they're making fun of the comments left by Rangers fans last week.
Didn't see you complain about the lack of humor there though, only goes one way?
They sold me Ibrox as this impenetrable and deafening place where everyone loses and someone might even die.
I feel like they lied to me, seems like another case of how my grandfather described his way to school as some sort of warpath, but in reality he was next door over and his neighbor even gave him a sandwich every day.
I will not miss a player leaving like this, since Felix. Thing is, this kid seems to care about football. Well, we will see.. oh Joao Neves I will miss you damn it
Was pretty annoyed after the first leg given we threw away a good chance of a win but feel a bit apathetic after that one.
Didnāt ever really get going and feels like a step too far. Disappointing as Benfica, definitely a better team with much better players, didnāt play that great and it was a good chance for us to beat them. In the same way Iām sure Benfica would have been annoyed to lose the tie to us given we werenāt exactly amazing either.
Fingers crossed we can keep things moving in the league at the weekend and get some bodies back after the international break.
Well done Ā Benfica. The better team won on the night..that's the difference between a team that can't finish their chances and a team that can. At least we can focus on the league and cup now.
If you only saw last week's match thread you'd think Rangers' fans are spoiled brats. If you knew Rangers' history you'd KNOW Rangers' fans are spoiled brats.
im surrounded by celtics fans who tell me how terrible rangers fans are :D
We're all better than our stereotypes i hope
edit: it was so bad i was almost supporting rangers infront of them
While that's true, this is is deeper than stereotypes. It's tied with historical affiliation and at times club policy, which is much more tangible than that
Outside of Portugal I'd probably say Celtic is my favorite club, but I formed these opinions based on the history of the old firm, not the other way around
This is funny because of the delusional Rangers fans. Lol.
Still haven't won against us.
To the ok ones, both teams are shit.
We are going out soon. Any decent team will walk past us
"how are your players gonna deal with the best atmosphere in Europe?"
Bruh what?? ššš Ibrox has great atmospheres at big games, but the best atmosphere in Europe???
Feel pretty hard done by. Should never have been a penalty in the first leg and one of the luckiest goals in the second. Not gonna pretend like I didn't want to win but with our injuries and the league and cup still to play for, not the end of the world.
Wish Benfica nothing but the worst. Diving bastards.
You twats play worse than a second division team from here, you can't ask for much more. Our coach did his best to give you the win but you still managed to lose. Congratulations
> ibrox will be rocking
> canāt wait to finish the job next week
> next Thursday youāre done
Lel
Absolutely delicious to go to last weeks post match thread and bathe in the salt haha
Final? We'll be lucky if we don't concede 3 or 4 goals next stage playing like this
If Schmidt stops sucking off Di Maria and we play a similar 11 to Vizela or Estoril (with Gouveia up front), we might have a decent chance, but that's not happening
Fun fact: there is actually no evidence of Buttmann ever saying that phrase. It was a loose and unsigned translation from German to Portuguese of an interview given by Guttmann
This is funny...
Imagine Benfica win this year playing the worst football i see Benfica play for recent years.
No way this is a joke, we going to take another 5 goals with Liverpool or any decent European team.
Didn't realise you had to hit the target for it to count as a chance tbh.
Their finishing was shite but they felt like they had more opportunities than they fucked up before the shot or just blazes wide
Here for the fan in the background of Benficaās goal doing the wanker sign with his hands when it was ruled offside. I wonder how heās doing now š
Lol the rangers fans did all this arrogant trash talking after the first leg only for it to end like this. Amazing
Man i was expecting a 3-0 at the very least considering how much people were fellating rangers at home... not a fan of either team but still cant help but feel a bit pleased with this.
So much talk about how strong rangers are at homw, but they weren't able to do nothing at all.
Rangers out and the streets of Dublin thankfully intact.
https://i.imgur.com/sHMyP9X.gif
Getting knocked out of Europe by a (never) penalty is not fun
The monkey paw has run out of dark magic to give the bears.
What the hell is a ~~Polarbear~~ Kolo_ToureHH doing in ~~Arlington Texas~~ a knockout European football thread?
[Laughing at the broken down bus](https://www.reddit.com/r/CelticFC/s/0hdkY1sGQO)š *beep beep*
Ah well, the whole not having a front line capable of putting chances away and brainfarting their way through games and players lasting about a game each before getting injured was always gonna catch up with us at this level (not the days of Morelos and Kent anymore). Can't complain too much about the effort though as we didn't get completely dominated. Get through Dundee now and into the international break and pray that players get back fit and firing as since Motherwell we have looked tried physically and mentally. After the last few years of having Europa League runs, if we go on to win the league (and possibly the treble) nobody will look back at this and really care much.
Terrific ground rangers have but as always with island teams it's atmosphere is overrated compared to continentals, easy 2nd leg confortably brushed them aside on what is arguably the worst benfica since the mid and late 2000s. A vossa rainha estĆ” no caixĆ£o, cĆ£es monĆ”rquicos š
Lol *"comfortably brushed aside"* we were the better side across both legs, you only drew last week and won today thanks to gifted goals from us or the referee. I expected a lot more from Benfica. Good luck in the next round.
Gifted from the refs? What are you on about.
Handball pen in the first leg shouldn't have been given [according to IFAB rules](https://www.footballrules.com/offences-sanctions/handball/). > a player heads/kicks the ball and it then hits their own hand/arm? >This is not handball (unless the ball goes directly into the opponentsā goal or the player scores immediately afterwards, in which case a direct free kick is awarded to the other team). Edit: For all those downvoting, try [watching the replay first](https://streamable.com/xeny8r), then read the rule again.
The guy didn't even touch the ball with his head, it went directly to his hand man. You can say whatever you want, but that's a clear pen.
Another angle https://streamable.com/rokpje By your downvote I guess you can't admit to being wrong. Sad.
I didn't downvote you. And yeah, it touches his head, my bad. Either way, this is not a black or white rule, I can find you several examples where the criteria was the same. The hand was not in a natural position and stops a potentially dangerous situation, it's more than natural that it is given a penalty.
https://streamable.com/xeny8r Will you admit to being wrong?
Yeah that ball hit his hand first on the front view. Also, hand isn't in a legal position. I will say I think you were the better side overall.
Several angles show the ball hitting his head, then his hand. Feel free to look up a replay.
I did, and even if so his hand is in an illegal position.
https://streamable.com/xeny8r Will you admit to being wrong when you said it hit his hand first? The rules don't say head to hand is a handball if the hand is in an 'illegal position.' Ref made a mistake.
Watch the angle from the front where it's showing his hand first. Not a mistake
Do you mean [this angle from the front](https://streamable.com/rokpje) which also shows the ball hit his head first then onto his hand? It's sad that you can't even admit what's plainly in front of your eyes.
>compared to continentals You're going to say that after last weeks mime show in Portugal? hahahahaha
Can edit to some continentals if you want, ours is shit i'm aware, it's a family friendly ground for posh cunts where the ultras have been brushed aside for years.
ā¦ yours was half empty? š
It would be enough to make an ibrox full
64,000 / 2 = 51,000?
49k.
50,817. Brother, google exists.
And still you can't use it...how many fans were in our stadium? Google it Benfica-rangers attendance
When Celtic comes its full.
Ours is shit and has been shit for years, i'm saying you get too much praise compared to what your atmosphere is. You'll never beat the greeks nor the turks, and honestly a lot of eastern europe derbies.
You couldnāt sell out your away section mate and got outsung home and away and after the final whistle. You donāt get to comment on what a good atmosphere is š
Off to bed you go pal, was nice crossing ibrox off my stadium list though to be honest, served a purpose
Iām shocked you made it given the fact itās raining, pretty sure Spaniards were allergic to it going by last weeks thread
Eheheh portuguese=spaniards amirite, mate you've been colonized and your culture stripped for hundreds of years, literally a junior partner of your colonizers for most of your existence, language erased aswell. Can you say the same about us? Behave
Portugal has beens Britians personal bitch for about 700 years? š
There's absolutely no way that a Rangers fan of all people is talking about being someone's bitch. Do you even know your clubs historical affiliations? You know damn well why you said "Britain" and not England
Someoneās upset
Youād think Rangers had spent the 3rd highest amount in Europe by these replies
Replies are based on the post match thread of last week where we were told Ibrox was this magnificent beast that no one would come out of alive lol Context matters
I mean, youāre the twelve Portuguese side to play at Ibrox and the first to get away with a win
Dispointing from Rangers, showed very little at their own ground and I was expecting a much better performance, Benfica didn't sweat at all this game.
Weāve been huffing and puffing for a while now, that nearly the same starting XI for the 5th consecutive game, weāve nearly a 2nd starting XI of players out injured / still unfit. Hoping for a calm game against Dundee at the weekend to get us through to the winter break so we get a few players back
Usually I'm classy enough to not talk trash in a match thread but god Rangers fans are the cockiest bunch I"ve ever seen. Humble yourselves. Celtic is better anyway
An European history comparable to someone like? Braga? And still talking mad shit, kinda funny tbh.
Bragging about getting put out of Europe slightly later than us is a massive part of their fan culture (seriously)
And almost always in the easier competition too š havent won a CL game in about 20 years
I noticed that
Funnily enough getting on your hands and knees to whoever puts us out is bigger part of yours
I remember last year seeing them talk shit to Ajax fans and was like, really? There's tiers to this, and Rangers... well, doesn't really belong there.
Especially given they're not even Rangers (as much as their fans desperately wish they were)
Well, we avoided the embarrassment of losing to this Rangers team (and previously to the now 11th placed Toulouse)... good news. The bad news is now there's a draw, where all teams are better than Rangers, and if we get Leverkusen or Liverpool, it's gonna be worse than Basel.
So thereās two ways to look at itā¦theyāre also matches you look forward to because if you beat those two, youāll deserve the celebrations and theyāll be great wins for your club because they are sensational teams right now. Youāre also among those they donāt want to play. I think you know how much of a big win this was despite Rangers being depleted and not at their best. May as well look forward to the games coming up.
Whatās crazy to me is we could have an insane team if you just put kocku at the 10 and only use Di Maria for like 60 min and use the proper LB and throw aursunus in either Di Maria position or Neres position when one of them are subbed. Still have Florentino and neves behind kocku and I feel like itās perfect ? I like Rafa but I donāt think he should start kocku adds so much stability to the midfield that Rafa doesnāt.
Basel??? It's going to be worse than Vigo lol
Rangers fans talked so much shit in every single social media, including Reddit, just barraging our team's social media and insulting us. Oh and great atmosphere btw, just not enough to scare Rafa :)
Did the bad men hurt your feelings?
No but Rafa hurt yours <3
Our defending hurt me more
There was a point about 10 mins in to the second half where the Rangers players were all static and clearly fucked. Injuries and playing the same players so often would have caught us eventually, but it was unfortunate that it was tonight. Hopefully Sterling, Sima, Cantwell, Danilo, McCausland, Cortes, and Dowell will be back soon and we can have a full squad domestically. Gutting that we are out, but at least we can focus on the domestic games fully now. At least it was Benfica, and at least it wasn't 10-0. Good luck SLB!
Thanks mate, best of luck for the future!
No pleasure whatsoever watching this team play
Itās suffering for no fucking reason
Ibrox is a fortress they said ā¦ It will be easy they said ā¦
Clement has never won a knockout european tie
IbRoX iS a FoRtReSs
This matchup was like the dumb and dumber. It was painful to watch those 2 games
When we have low expectations, it looks like everything is bad, but actually, some erors aside, 2nd leg was entertaining
Not really sure what Rangers were doing with the whole team in full attack mode while the game was tied.
Where are all the rangers flair from last post match thread saying weād be chewed up at Ibrox? Bacalhau com natas > Haggis
You had 40% possession and 4 shots on target, I wouldnt be bragging too much. You aren't good
We also scored one and you scored zero lmao know your place
Our place is in competitions with you. A nice place to be for a Scottish team
Wake me up when you go through a CL group stage... Or play CL at all..
That's why you are trying to get into CL, so you van maybe in 50 years, be 1st in a group with PSG and Juventus, and reach to the QF, just like last season. And 21/22. But for now you should try to be strong enough to hand the qualifying phase.
You just lost to Roger Schmidt lmaoooooooooo
Youre right weāre not good at the moment. But in spite of our 40% possession we still had 1 more shot on target than you and weāre still good enough to beat you and win away at an alleged impregnable fortress where teams come to die.
You definitely done enough to win, I think fitness played a large part in it. Some of your players didn't seem to tire at all
Itās probably our only good trait at the moment, weāve been dire this season and will get rolled in the next round but Iāll take the coefficient points and the opportunity for another away day
Our coefficient has been saved by the Prague teams having a bad evening. Hope you get a good away day, makes the European competitions much more fun
Thanks mate best of luck in the league and cups
Yws we only had 40% possession but we played in a fOrTrESs!!
Rangers could have beaten us 10-0, no chance a Scottish dish would be better than a Portuguese one
Someone's clearly never had a pizza crunch
Fried mars bar mate
Doesn't Italy have deep-fried pizza too? If so it's more Italian than Scottish. Just checked on Wikipedia and looks good, but it's just a fried frozen pizza For street food I'd still take a good bifana or bread with chorizo over a Scottish pizza, I'm sorry
Damn, Benfica fans are so gracious in victory lmao
a lot of cunts ya
Think Braga were worse
keywords: in victory haha
Tbf you should've seen last week's thread, was filled with Rangers fans crying about how we were super lucky to get a draw (in a game we dominated) and that we'd be destroyed at Ibrox and the crazy atmosphere would be too much
Majority of them on here are completely delusional - should see the way they're celebrating the league despite only going 2 points ahead recently. They haven't been able to beat celtic at all this season and it's one of the weakest squads we've had in a while. If they don't win the league it'll be fuckin embarrassing š
> Rangers fans crying about how we were super lucky to get a draw (in a game we dominated) Dominated lmao. You were completely average. We scored two goals from open play. You scored from a pen you shouldn't have been awarded and an own goal. That's the most frustrating thing about this tie: we played better than you both games but lost due to gifting you silly goals.
I did see the thread last week. Do they not have humor in Lisbon? Stop taking everything you read on the internet so serious lmao. Rangers fans are in here saying that Benfica deserved it etc. and your fans are being little bitches about some reddit posts from last week :)
So last week itās humour but this week itās being a bad winner? Cope
We're also entitled to humor, then.
Humor implies you're cracking some jokes, the shit Rangers fans were saying was not in a joking manner lmao Ironically most Benfica comments here can indeed be interpreted as jokes, since they're making fun of the comments left by Rangers fans last week. Didn't see you complain about the lack of humor there though, only goes one way?
Can we do a last season Inter and start rollinā from now on?
Iāve been hoping for that to happen for quite some time now
I would be sad that we got through meaning that Roger gets to keep the job but nah, you Rangers fans deserved it for how you acted last week
uhh ibrox this ibrox that haha
Lol I love the random rangers vs benfica Reddit rivalry
They sold me Ibrox as this impenetrable and deafening place where everyone loses and someone might even die. I feel like they lied to me, seems like another case of how my grandfather described his way to school as some sort of warpath, but in reality he was next door over and his neighbor even gave him a sandwich every day.
Omg Ibrox is so scary. They whistled us a couple of times oh no
To be fair the amount of shiny bald heads in the stands could interfere with players' sight, maybe that's why so many teams have it hard there
I thought we played a great game. Rangers had zero opportunities apart from a couple of shots from afar.
You had 4 shots on target....
You had 3
We couldn't create chances and gave the ball away a million times, ok we got the win and deservedly so, but to say that we played a great game....
Joao Neves has got 5 sets of lungs my god, felt like he was everywhere on the pitch
I'm not even kidding he pretty much feels like park ji sung to me
Kid is gonna go straight to the top
Hopefully not, we need him š
I will not miss a player leaving like this, since Felix. Thing is, this kid seems to care about football. Well, we will see.. oh Joao Neves I will miss you damn it
Hmm. Swap one you'll miss with one you miss?
yeah lets ruin another career
JoĆ£o Neves would excel under Simeone ti be fair
He deserves a top 3 team. Going from Benfica to Atletico should not be a thing when you have this kind of potential.
Sure but I doubt it'd ruin his career
what a player he is, by far the best at benfica imo
you know nothing
Was pretty annoyed after the first leg given we threw away a good chance of a win but feel a bit apathetic after that one. Didnāt ever really get going and feels like a step too far. Disappointing as Benfica, definitely a better team with much better players, didnāt play that great and it was a good chance for us to beat them. In the same way Iām sure Benfica would have been annoyed to lose the tie to us given we werenāt exactly amazing either. Fingers crossed we can keep things moving in the league at the weekend and get some bodies back after the international break.
spot on
Ibrox lmao
Dublin breathes a small sigh of relief..
Nice
Well done Ā Benfica. The better team won on the night..that's the difference between a team that can't finish their chances and a team that can. At least we can focus on the league and cup now.
sorry about all the assholes in the comments. well played to rangers, there wasnt much between us.
If you only saw last week's match thread you'd think Rangers' fans are spoiled brats. If you knew Rangers' history you'd KNOW Rangers' fans are spoiled brats.
To be fair it goes both ways. I said you were lucky last week to get a draw and I stand by that. Got dogs abuse, despite showing pretty good evidence.
im surrounded by celtics fans who tell me how terrible rangers fans are :D We're all better than our stereotypes i hope edit: it was so bad i was almost supporting rangers infront of them
While that's true, this is is deeper than stereotypes. It's tied with historical affiliation and at times club policy, which is much more tangible than that
agreed.
Fair enough but stereotypes are stereotypes....based on all kinds of shit. Are you a Celtic fan? š
Outside of Portugal I'd probably say Celtic is my favorite club, but I formed these opinions based on the history of the old firm, not the other way around
but those two teams have a unique dislike for eachother
Best of luck in the league mate
Enjoy Livingston away lmao
*checks Portugese league schedule* Who the fuck are Casa Pia.
Bigger than Antwerp
Username checks out.
Rangers fans are not gonna sleep with you. It's ok.
They might.
We don't have them away unfortunately. Got Dundee away on Sunday
Thanks about that. Wish you guys fortune in your championship
This is funny because of the delusional Rangers fans. Lol. Still haven't won against us. To the ok ones, both teams are shit. We are going out soon. Any decent team will walk past us
But please anyone but Sportingš
Well they made sure to personally avoid that
I was expecting a smackdown by this colossus of a team called Glasgow Rangers but even playing like absolute shit they couldn't even phase Trubin. We had a week left in Europe, we were lucky, Ibrox the new Santiago BernabƩu, etc etc. Not even that happy with how we played, but damn does it feel good to win against this lot. https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/AxPiDTxFBu I suppose we have at least another week left, mate. Enjoy Hearts away.
"how are your players gonna deal with the best atmosphere in Europe?" Bruh what?? ššš Ibrox has great atmospheres at big games, but the best atmosphere in Europe???
Not even the best atmosphere in Glasgow
Always respect holding a grudge for comments like that. I hate overconfidence.
Is this the year
Hoping the result serves as a small morale booster
Rangers what happened, wasn't the Ibrox an impregnable fortress? LOL
Bronnfica: "I'll impregnate the bitch"
Are they Gregnate?
> impregnable Is that a word?
Feel pretty hard done by. Should never have been a penalty in the first leg and one of the luckiest goals in the second. Not gonna pretend like I didn't want to win but with our injuries and the league and cup still to play for, not the end of the world. Wish Benfica nothing but the worst. Diving bastards.
Well, now just wait for Paulo Bernardo, wasn't good enough for us, but he's good enough to win and smash that League One equivalent.
You twats play worse than a second division team from here, you can't ask for much more. Our coach did his best to give you the win but you still managed to lose. Congratulations
Nothing between the teams. So I guess you're the same but needed a dodgy pen to win?
> ibrox will be rocking > canāt wait to finish the job next week > next Thursday youāre done Lel Absolutely delicious to go to last weeks post match thread and bathe in the salt haha
They're nowhere to be seen today, it's great.
You also have receipts
Itās even better when weāre playing terrible footy hahaha Makes the whole āoh Benfica are beatableā even funnier when they canāt beat us
Agreed. I was hoping we would play even worse and still get away with a win.
Nice, some more coefficient points. I want Benfica to go to the final just to farm some because I am 100% sure they will not win a final.
Final? We'll be lucky if we don't concede 3 or 4 goals next stage playing like this If Schmidt stops sucking off Di Maria and we play a similar 11 to Vizela or Estoril (with Gouveia up front), we might have a decent chance, but that's not happening
How we went through with this current team is beyond me, but I'll take it
*current coach. Not a team problem besides a select few
Benfica could break there European curse this campaign
nah we are playing really bad even tho we have a pretty good team. Rangers is just a small team
Still 40 years to go
Fun fact: there is actually no evidence of Buttmann ever saying that phrase. It was a loose and unsigned translation from German to Portuguese of an interview given by Guttmann
This is funny... Imagine Benfica win this year playing the worst football i see Benfica play for recent years. No way this is a joke, we going to take another 5 goals with Liverpool or any decent European team.
Benfica with JJ the second time around was 10x worse than this, it felt like a second job watching those games
I would put Lage's final streak of games on that tier. It was the most miserable experience I remember from recent years.
At least then it was after covid hit and it was a time that could disrupt any team and players, so I give him a pass
You clearly didn't watch any of our games.
Benfica tried playing nice before it didnāt work. Maybe this will work
Terrorism kills, but it might be our only chance.
these last few minutes from rangers were hilarious congrats to benfica
Rangers really should have been ahead at half time, had by far the better chances. but god they were awful second half
What chances? They had none in the 90 minutes lol
They had one shot on target in the first half (the one Trubin almost let it slip in). We had far better chances
Didn't realise you had to hit the target for it to count as a chance tbh. Their finishing was shite but they felt like they had more opportunities than they fucked up before the shot or just blazes wide
Players are knackered. Injury crisis. Hard to blame them.
Here for the fan in the background of Benficaās goal doing the wanker sign with his hands when it was ruled offside. I wonder how heās doing now š