This is the final blog-post for Saturday 11/27/2010. I promise.

First off, in the Netherlands, FC Twente defeated NEC 4-2 despite allowing the first goal of the match, a fine shot by Bas Sibum in the 9th minute. Twente then came back with a vengeance, putting in three, two from Bryan Ruiz, and a contribution from Marc Janko to make it 3-1. But NEC fought back, scoring another goal in the 74th minute (scored by Bjorn Vleminckx) to bring the game to an interesting one goal margin. It didn't stay that way for long as Twente returned fire to restore a two goal thanks to Janko once more. Willem II and Excelsior meanwhile ended as they began: tied. However, Excelsior actually led for much of the game after Kaj Ramsteijn scored in the 51st minute, but the home side rallied in the dying moments of the match to get Evgeniy Levchenko the goal to salvage a point. Also, in Spain today, after taking the lead in their game today, Sevilla actually ended up losing the match quite badly to Getafe following a penalty goal by Manu in the 57th minute, and two more goals, by Miku and Pedro Rios in the 59th and 77th minute respectively. Atletico Madrid's match today, against Espanyol, started bad and has followed the same path for most of the match. Luis Garcia converted a 22nd minute penalty to give the visitors an early lead before Tiago drew the hosts level at the very end of the first half. But Verdu got the second half started very much as the first one began, scoring in the 53rd minute to once more give Espanyol a lead over their hosts. However, in the 66th minute, Sergio Aguero puts in a great goal to draw the two sides back onto level pegging! Despite this, Pablo Osvaldo won the game for Espanyol in the 78th minute, due to a nice goal which put the visitors above, a margin of 2-3 was the final score, giving Espanyol the three points. In the meantime over in Portugal, Sporting Lisbon take on FC Porto. And the Lions of Lisbon lead, at home, thanks to Jaime Valdes' 38th minute effort. Falcao brings the visitors level in the 58th minute which definitely gets things going. Then, in the 69th minute, Maicon gets a straight red card which gives Sporting Lisbon two advantages: first of all, Sporting are playing at home, and then now they are only playing against ten men. It'll be interesting to see whether the Lions can do anything with such things in their favor. But no, in fact, Sporting only manages to get a couple of cards. That isn't to say Porto were angels, they too didn't go for anything even with 11 players and they too received a ton of cards. No matter, the match ended as a draw. Fun fact: Porto received 5 yellow cards and a red card while Sporting amassed 4 yellow cards. Yep, that's 10 cards, more impressive than the amount of goals. In Italy, Juventus managed a draw against Fiorentina, stemming from an own goal in the 4th minute by Marco Motta that gave Fiorentina an early lead. Pepe came through for the Turin club however, scoring in the 82nd minute to take a point from a disappointing game.