"beraberlik iyi sonuç"

Meira'dan sonra Başkan da aynı şeyi söylemiş. Maça da böyle çıkarlarsa fark yeriz diye korkuyorum. 1 puan iyi sonuçmuş, bak sen. Sanki berabere döndüler de tu kaka diyen oldu. Hele bir çık oyna, Benfica'ya ters psikoloji mi yapıyorsun, komik.

UEFA'nın sayfasından bazı bilgiler: (Benfica-Galatasaray buluşması bir ilk. Skibbe iki kez Portekiz ekiplerini elemiş, ama ikisinde de Portekiz'de mağlup olmuş. G. Souness ve T. İviç iki takımı da çalıştırmış hocalar, A. Xavier ve Meira iki takımda da oynamış.)

• Now 30, central defender Meira joined Benfica from hometown club Vitória SC for €4m back in 2000 and did enough during his time in Lisbon to earn a €7.5m move on to VfB Stuttgart in January 2002.

• This is Benfica and Galatasaray's first meeting in UEFA club competition.

• Galatasaray have never been to Portugal before for a competitive fixture, but Benfica have played four games against Turkish teams over the course of two two-legged European ties.

• They beat Fenerbahçe 7-1 overall in the 1975/76 European Champion Clubs' Cup first round and then earned a 4-0 aggregate win against Altay GK in the preliminary round of the 1980/81 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

• Benfica's two home games against Turkish sides ended in a 7-0 win and a 4-0 success.

• Galatasaray's German coach Skibbe will be making his third trip to Portugal with a third team. His BV Borussia Dortmund team beat Boavista FC 3-1 at home in the 1999/00 UEFA Champions League first group stage then lost the return 1-0 in Porto.

• Skibbe's Leverkusen won 3-1 at home against UD Leiria in the first round of the 2007/08 UEFA Cup, progressing to the group stage despite a 3-2 loss in the return fixture.

• Skibbe is thus yet to avoid defeat in a game on Portuguese soil.

• Benfica's Spanish coach Quique Sánchez Flores has never come up against Turkish opposition before.

• The clubs have two former coaches in common. Scotsman Graeme Souness was in charge at Galatasaray in 1995/96 before a stint at the helm of Benfica between 1997 and 1999, while Croatian Tomislav Ivić coached the Istanbul giants in 1983/84 and the Lisbon outfit in 1992.

• Former Portuguese international Abel Xavier played for both clubs, representing Benfica from 1993 to 1995 and playing for Galatasaray in the 2003/03 season.