No doubt that year's team is FC Barcelona of the five Cups , but his shadow was another club that shone, and much, in 2011. FC Porto Villas-Boas caught on a remarkable season in which he proclaimed champion won the three titles he played: Liga, Taca and UEFA Europa League.
Going back to the beginning of the season in the last quarters of 2010, we can not forget that the Porto snatched the best possible way, standing in the winner Supertaça, which came as a champion of the Taça 2010. That was the first title of his new coach, a young André Villas-Boas to the eternal president Pinto da Costa gave the reins of the club with only 32 years and the only baggage of two years at the Academy of Coimbra.
Villas-Boas, former assistant to Jose Mourinho, Porto converted to a machine to destroy rivals. From a 4-3-3, I Dragees deployed a dominant football acquired its greatest dimension when, having advanced on the scoreboard displayed their extraordinary backlash. With Fernando doing the work of pivot Guarín Moutinho and offensive maneuvers directed and fed the ball attacking trident: Varela, Hulk and Falcao. And like any great team, had an excellent player # 12: James Rodriguez.
The league championship was won with 84 street 90 possible points: 27 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses!, 61 goals for and 11 against! The second-placed Benfica, he put 21 points of difference and In addition, he endorsed a league match 5-0 at the Estádio do Dragao on. And, last but not least, accounted for all individual awards: Hulk and Falcao were the top scorers with 23 and 16 respectively, and the goalkeeping record Helton with 9 goals in 25 games.
In the UEFA Europa League first began to be classified as Group L, yielding a single tie. sixteenths eliminated in Sevilla , winning the first leg at the Sanchez Pizjuan by 1-2 at home and giving back to 0-1, going round by the value of the away goals. In eighth gave a good account of CSKA, winning by a high in Moscow and doing the same in Porto 2-1. The next two rounds, quarterfinals and semifinals, the fast-track hashed two-leg win at home for the same result: 5-1. The victims were the Spartak (that Moscow also succumbed 2-5) and Villarreal (who at least won at El Madrigal, 3-2). In the final were measured with the surprise of the tournament, their neighbors Braga, to let them give us a stir in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. dredges are crowned Os to a 1-0 win .
The undisputed star of the Azuis and Brancos UEFA Europa League was the mattress Now Radamel Falcao. The Colombian was the top scorer of the tournament with 13 goals. But the most remarkable of all is that in the last five games, that is, quarters, semis and final, scored 10 goals, including one of the final and finished the tournament with an average of one goal every 65 minutes.
And finally, to close the season in the best possible way, just four days after winning the Champions League victory in the Taça repeated in Portugal (ie the glass) in an extraordinary final Vitória de Guimarães. In a burst of spectacular match in 23 minutes the score already indicated a first half 2-2 and end with a display of Villas-Boas, who were 5-2. In the second part there was still time for James Rodriguez was erected in the man in the final scoring his third goal and leaving the aggregate 6-2 final.
Then in Summer Villas-Boas took the bags for London and Falcao went to Atletico Madrid. With Vitor Pereira debuting on the bench, could not the only team that was better than them in 2011, FC Barcelona's Pep Guardiola won the European Super Cup, 2-0 , the only blemish on an excellent year of FC Porto .
In NDF | Best of 2011
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