Benfica tied last weekend for Portuguese League play against Setubal. The 1 – 1 tie dropped Benfica 9 points behind first place Porto. Luckily for us, Sporting would end up losing at Boavista, 2 to 0, later that day, and instead of catching up to Benfica on the second spot, actually fell three points back.

But the score wasn´t the worst thing coming out of this game. In the second half Katsouranis and Luisão almost got into a fight. I know in the States we are somewhat used to games where fight break-out among players, but in soccer its just doesn´t happen. But truth be told, there weren´t any punches thrown, far from it.

What happened though was bad enough for Camacho to remove both players from the field at the same time a few minutes later. Edcarlos and Mantorras came into the game, with Mantorras scoring Benfica´s goal a few minutes later. Setubal would however tie the game in the final minutes of play.

Benfica played a decent first half, with Christian Rodriguez being one of the best players on the field. Rodriguez would however leave the game at the 32 minutes mark, with pain in one of his legs. His injury didn´t however prove to be serious, and he is expect to be available for this weekend´s game. Di Maria came in for injured Rodriguez. Add to this the two other forced substitutions and Camacho didn´t have much room to work the bench.

With this tie it becomes clear that Benfica only has to worry about holding on to the second spot and forget about Porto, at least for the next few weeks.