Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The 1998–99 season was Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 95th season in existence and the club's 65th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football. It involved Benfica competing in the Primeira Divisão and the Taça de Portugal. Benfica qualified for the UEFA Champions League by finishing 2nd in the previous Primeira Divisão. It covers the events from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999.The first full season of Graeme Souness was not as successful as his first eight months. Poor results, conflicts with players and compromising decisions, saw him get sacked even before the end of the season, as Rui Miguel Tovar narrated in the Almanac: "An initial scare foresees an unsettling season. With the qualification for the millionaire Champions League almost assured, (Due to a 6–0 thrashing in the first leg to the fragile Beitar Jerusalem) Benfica unexpectedly crashes in Israel for unthinkable numbers (2–4), which forces the President to come down to the locker rooms and shout at the players. Still, the Champions League is a reality – as his the ever present controversy caused by Souness. His signings – Thomas and Pembridge in July, Saunders in January, Harkness and Charles in March – rarely ever get it right. Adding to this, the problems with the players are recurring (Once, João Pinto and Nuno Gomes arrive ten minutes late to the scheduled hour and are punished with bench time against Marítimo) and successive examples of stubbornness (Harkness and Charles, with only three training sessions with the team, start the crucial match against Boavista) force him out, after a home draw against Campomaiorense. By then, Champions League (five points lost to the amateurs of HJK Helsinki), Portuguese League and Portuguese Cup were a thing of the past. Till the end, it is Shéu who leads the team, and holds on to the third place with a draw in the last Match-day, the fifth at home, against Sporting."@en }
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- 1998–99_S.L._Benfica_season abstract "The 1998–99 season was Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 95th season in existence and the club's 65th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football. It involved Benfica competing in the Primeira Divisão and the Taça de Portugal. Benfica qualified for the UEFA Champions League by finishing 2nd in the previous Primeira Divisão. It covers the events from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999.The first full season of Graeme Souness was not as successful as his first eight months. Poor results, conflicts with players and compromising decisions, saw him get sacked even before the end of the season, as Rui Miguel Tovar narrated in the Almanac: "An initial scare foresees an unsettling season. With the qualification for the millionaire Champions League almost assured, (Due to a 6–0 thrashing in the first leg to the fragile Beitar Jerusalem) Benfica unexpectedly crashes in Israel for unthinkable numbers (2–4), which forces the President to come down to the locker rooms and shout at the players. Still, the Champions League is a reality – as his the ever present controversy caused by Souness. His signings – Thomas and Pembridge in July, Saunders in January, Harkness and Charles in March – rarely ever get it right. Adding to this, the problems with the players are recurring (Once, João Pinto and Nuno Gomes arrive ten minutes late to the scheduled hour and are punished with bench time against Marítimo) and successive examples of stubbornness (Harkness and Charles, with only three training sessions with the team, start the crucial match against Boavista) force him out, after a home draw against Campomaiorense. By then, Champions League (five points lost to the amateurs of HJK Helsinki), Portuguese League and Portuguese Cup were a thing of the past. Till the end, it is Shéu who leads the team, and holds on to the third place with a draw in the last Match-day, the fifth at home, against Sporting.".