Benfica, on the other hand, just won 5-0, in 6 games we have 21 goals scored and 3 against (a penalty, an own goal and a last minute goal on an 8-1 (!!!) victory).
we bought several players this season, namely Javi Garcia and Saviola from Real Madrid for €7M and €5M respectively and Ramires (who had a great Confederations Cup performance for Brazil) for €7M, and most importantly a coach that said 2 things right on his first day: 1. Benfica was going to play at least twice as well as in the previous season and 2. at Benfica it doesn't matter if it's your first year, aiming at anything less than the title is ridiculous.
for once the guy was actually good for it and the results are what you can see above.
Saviola went from forgotten at Real to star status at Benfica, Aimar went from washed up last year to getting called up for the first time in 2 or 3 years to the Argentina squad, Di Maria is finally living up to his promise, Javi Garcia has Spain's manager watching him and Cardozo is on fire (7 goals in 6 league matches).
if it all goes right, we'll have Cardozo (paraguay), Maxi Pereira (Uruguay) and Ramires and Luisão (Brasil) at the world cup, plus possibly Di Maria, Aimar, Javi Garcia and Nuno Gomes for their respective squads.
i say this at the start of every season, but this time i'm really optimistic. we've been playing great football and scoring lots of goals and the team is extremely motivated. CARREGA BENFICA!1!1!!!!!!ONEONE!!!!
