With 24 wins and seven draws, the team of Rúben Amorim achieved what no other team from any club had achieved in the history of the event, this being only the 26th time, in 87 editions, that the event has more than 30 rounds.
This Wednesday, it broke the record of the I League of consecutive games without losing at the same time, reaching 31 with a triumph in the stronghold of Rio Ave (2-0), in the 31st round of the edition 2020 / 21.
With 24 wins and seven draws, the team of Rúben Amorim achieved what no other team from any club had achieved in the history of the event, this being only the 26th time, in 87 editions, that the event has more than 30 rounds.
In the previous round, with a 2-0 victory against Nacional, Sporting had already matched the records of Benfica (1972/73 and 1977/78) and FC Porto (2010/11 and 2012/13), which had ended undefeated four championships to 16 teams.
In championships with more than 30 rounds, the record belonged to FC Porto, who, in 1987/88, when they won the Intercontinental Cup, the European Super Cup, the championship and the Portuguese Cup, only lost their unbeaten run to the 29th. journey.
After 21 wins and seven draws in the first 28 games, the dragons lost 2-1 in Alvalade, on April 9, 1988, due to the goals of Paulinho Cascavel and Mário Jorge, against one by Jorge Plácido. It would be the only defeat in 38 matches.
In the previous 22 editions with 34 rounds, the maximum was also for FC Porto and dated 2003/04, a time when José Mourinho’s men played 27 games without losing, until they fell in the stronghold of Gil Vicente, in a 29th match. round – they had a late game.
Gaspar, in the 64th minute, and Luís Coentrão, in the 67th, sealed the triumph of the Barcelos group, which received the dragons at the D. Afonso Henriques Stadium, in Guimarães.
In 2020/21, Rúben Amorim’s eleven beat all the invincibility records in one season and also his record of consecutive games without losing, the 29 under Fernando Vaz, between the 1969/70 and 70/71 seasons.
The lions did not lose any of the last 16 games of the 1969/70 season (11th to 26th days) and also remained undefeated in the first 13 of 1970/71 (first to 13th), until they fell in the reception to Barreirense (0-1).
At the beginning of the 21st century, between the 2001/02 and 2002/03 seasons, Sporting, owned by Romanian László Bölöni, was close to equaling this record, reaching 28 games without losing, before, on September 16, 2002, crashing in Paços de Ferreira (0-4), largely due to a hat-trick by Mauro.
This time, the lions have already gone 31 games without losing and may become the first team to end an undefeated championship with more than 30 rounds.
If he succeeds, Sporting will still be a long way from the record of invincibility of the other great in more than one season, since Benfica was 56 games without losing, between 1976/77 and 1978/79, and FC Porto 55, between 2009/10 and 2011/12.
To break both records, the “lions” would have to end this season without defeat and then not lose in any of the first 22 rounds of the 2021/22 championship.
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