Friday 15 April 2011

Not all doom and gloom for Portugal

With Portugal currently in the news right now due to their depressed economic situation, the country's football club's are in the headlines for more positive reasons.

S.L. Benfica, S.C. Braga and F.C. Porto have all made it to the last four of the Europa League, Europe's second tier cup competition.

Villarreal C.F. are the other team left in the competition and the team from Spain are most peoples favourite to lift the trophy in Dublin on May 18th.

Semi-final lineup looks like this:
First leg 28 April 2011
S.L. Benfica v S.C. Braga
F.C. Porto v Villarreal C.F.

Second leg 5 May 2011
S.C. Braga v S.L. Benfica
Villarreal C.F. v F.C. Porto

Check out some of the pics from quarter final night.

Portuguese Champions progress defeating Spartak Moscow 10-3 on aggregate

Benfica beat PSV 6-3 on aggregate to progress

Braga celebrate defeating Dynamo Kiev on away goals

Victorious Villarreal beat FC Twente 8-2 on aggregate

Goiás F.C. Porto!!!

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