Perfect night for Sérgio Conceição. Victory over Santa Clara (3-0), which keeps Sporting six points behind, a result that allowed them to achieve two historic records at the same time.
First he equaled the English coach John Mortimore, who was undefeated 56 games (for 673 days) with Benfica, more specifically between October 24, 1976 and August 28, 1978, being able to surpass that record if he doesn’t lose on Sunday, at 18:00, on the trip to the V. Guimarães terrain. The Dragons have been invincible since October 30, 2020, when they lost in Paços de Ferreira by 2-3, making a total of 45 wins and eleven draws in this journey.
But the three points achieved against the Ponta Delgada team, with a double from Fábio Vieira and another goal from Zaidu, also made it possible for Sérgio Conceição – the longest-serving in 40 years of Pinto da Costa’s presidency – to become the second coach in the history of FC Porto with more victories in official matches, more precisely 188 in 263 matches, with the late José Maria Pedroto remaining in the lead, with 214 triumphs in 321 matches.
Deprived of being on the substitutes’ bench – he saw his fifth yellow card at Estádio do Bessa, against Boavista -, Sérgio Conceição had to watch the match against Santa Clara in one of the main boxes at Estádio do Dragão.
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