The restart of Liga Nos: Everyone wants to stop the Eagle’s flight
After a very active summer on the backstage, the main actors of the beautiful game that is football will be back in action in Portugal,…
Articles by Pedro Maria Coito Castano
A hot and disturbing summer
Season 2017/18 has not even begun yet, the teams are still analysing the full length of their squads, especially the three dominant ones, in order…
Liga Nos Roundup: Benfica! Benfica! Benfica!
Four years ago, with Jorge Jesus still in charge, and after a year where Benfica would lose the league, cup and Europa League all in…
Liga Nos Preview: It’s title day in Lisbon!
Saturday 13th of March. On this day, one hundred years ago, in Fatima, three little sheep herders were baffled to see a vision of the…
Liga Nos Roundup: Benfica take a step closer to becoming champions
And with two matches left, the race for the Liga Nos title looks to have been sorted. Out of the three first placed teams, Benfica…
Liga Nos Preview: Benfica edging closer to record fourth successive title
And all of a sudden we are in May and there are only three rounds to play in Liga Nos. And, with those, three chances…
Liga NOS Roundup: Benfica struggle but get the points, Porto come out victorious and a Bas Dost masterclass
Benfica 2-1 Estoril It wasn’t easy keep the title route open, but Jonas’ quality ended up being the right catalyst for a game that was…
Liga Nos Preview: Benfica’s opportunity to pull away from the pack
A month ago, as Benfica and Porto battled to a draw, it was expected that Liga NOS would be an exciting league to follow, with…
Liga Nos roundup: Benfica held at Sporting, Porto fail to capitalise
It was almost a perfect weekend for Rui Vitoria’s Benfica. Not only were they able to survive their intense and exciting, though not always properly…
Liga Nos Preview: Decisive weekend ahead at both ends of the table
The day that stops Portugal’s capital is arriving fast, though with the amount of tourists that have been swarming Lisbon into these past few months…
The Liga Nos Title Race is Hotting Up
There was a point and a statement, just after Benfica vs Porto, that there would be another chance to dethrone the Encarnados from the top…
Alan Ruiz, Sporting’s Argentine Wizard
There’s something about left-footed Argentinians that play in an offensive role, either their starting position on the pitch is in the middle or from the…
Liga Nos round-up: Porto and Benfica keep winning, Dost bags another Sporting hat-trick
After the draw in Lisbon, both Benfica and Porto knew how important round 27 would be. The Aguias and Dragoes now know that it’ll be…
Dragons and Eagles fly low and the Lions look ready to attack
After the draw that decided nothing, Benfica and Porto go back to their calendar, knowing that any slip up will be the perfect opportunity for…
Porto endure Benfica onslaught to keep title challenge alive
In the match that was supposed to be decisive to the title math, Benfica and FC Porto faced-off in a duel where both teams seemed…
FC Porto travel to play Benfica in the Liga Nos top-of-the-table clash
Whilst the league itself is not one of the most followed around the globe, with the average quality of the teams in the top tier…
Ronaldo and Andre Silva, the new Portuguese dynamic duo
The European champions had a very important match to get rid of any possible ghosts of past failed qualifications with a very solid win against…
Portugal vs Hungary is a decisive match for the European champions
June 22nd 2016. Portugal and Hungary faced off in a decisive match to determine who would qualify in Group F of the European Championship in…
Shock results in Portugal’s Liga Nos!
Unbelievable! Before the April’s fools title-decider bout between Benfica and Porto both teams had matches they should be winning with more or less ease but…
Three young cubs for the rebirth of El Tigre
FC Barcelona has MSN. Real Madrid has BBC. AS Monaco has BLM. As Mbappe, Lemar and Bernardo are far from the difference making that Messi…