{"id":403992,"date":"2011-04-28T11:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/porto%e2%80%99s-andre-villas-boas-we-are-not-favorites-against-villarreal\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T11:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:45:34","slug":"portos-andre-villas-boas-we-are-not-favorites-against-villarreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/portos-andre-villas-boas-we-are-not-favorites-against-villarreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Porto\u2019s Andre Villas-Boas: We Are Not Favorites Against Villarreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Andre Villas-Boas insists that even with his side\u2019s 12-game winning streak, Porto will not go into their Europa League semifinal clash against Villarreal as clear favorites.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams confront each other in the first-leg in Portugal on Thursday evening and although Porto are said to be in the driving seat, their coach warns against any complacency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By this stage there is no such thing as favorites,\u201d said Villas-Boas, according to Uefa.com. \u201cBoth teams have equal chance of going through, so we&#8217;ll just play our own game. We have a great deal of respect for Villarreal and I really don&#8217;t know where they got the idea that we are favorites from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVillarreal are doing very well in fourth in the Spanish championship and therefore they&#8217;re one of the best teams in Europe. They have already been in a Champions League semi-final in 2006 and are striving for success \u2013 if they don&#8217;t have trophies yet, they will one day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Villarreal play with an attacking style, they draw pleasure from doing so; as do we. It&#8217;s a privilege to have these two teams playing in this competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other semifinal is between Benfica and Braga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_328-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/sports\/201104\/156756.php\" title=\"Porto\u2019s Andre Villas-Boas: We Are Not Favorites Against Villarreal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Porto\u2019s Andre Villas-Boas: We Are Not Favorites Against Villarreal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Andre Villas-Boas insists that even with his side\u2019s 12-game winning streak, Porto will not go into their Europa League semifinal clash against Villarreal as clear favorites. The two teams confront each other in the first-leg in Portugal on Thursday evening and although Porto are said to be in the driving seat, their coach warns against any complacency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Porto\u2019s Andre Villas-Boas: We Are Not Favorites Against Villarreal - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/portos-andre-villas-boas-we-are-not-favorites-against-villarreal\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Porto\u2019s Andre Villas-Boas: We Are Not Favorites Against Villarreal - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Andre Villas-Boas insists that even with his side\u2019s 12-game winning streak, Porto will not go into their Europa League semifinal clash against Villarreal as clear favorites. 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