Porto lost in the league unbeaten after two years

FC Porto has just lost their first game of Portuguese League after spending two years undefeated. The team has had the honor of breaking streak as dramatic has been the Gil Vicente (9 th ranked), which I lay at home dredging 3-1. The Porto led from February 2010 match unbeaten league.

The value of such streak is even greater if we consider that what has been achieved with three different coaches. Jesualdo Ferreira started with in 2010, a season that finished 3rd, after Benfica and Sporting. In the 2010-2011 season, with Andre Villas-Boas on the bench, Porto managed to win the league without losing a single game, in addition to TACA, and Supertaça UEFA Europa League. And finally, Vitor Pereira, who took over the team this summer, has kept the streak this season until Week 17.

Despite statistics that invites us to think, I do not go Azuis and Brancos leading Zon Sagres League despite leading 12 wins, 4 draws and only 1 loss. First place is occupied by SL Benfica, which has yielded just three draws and is now the only one still undefeated. The Lisbon, Jorge trained by Jesus, with whom he won the league since 2009-10, has a good Spanish gang (Javi Garcia, Nolito, Rodrigo and Capedvilla-although this is not counting on the confidence of the coach-) and other players well known to us, as Cardozo (Paraguay to which the penalty Casillas stopped him), Aimar, Garay, Saviola ...

So, Benfica Porto leads to five points when you just play the second day of the second round. The future of both teams in European competition can greatly influence their particular league match. Benfica is qualified for the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League after leaving in the lurch nothing more and nothing less than the Manchester United (finalists in three of the last four editions). They play a place among the eight best teams in Europe with Zenit St Petersburg, a playoff in which a priori the favorites supported the advantage of playing the second leg in Lisbon.

Meanwhile, Porto is having its best year for the Old Continent. After having the good fortune to fall into a group without any equipment above them, ended up as third place, behind the surprising APOEL Nicosia and the Russian Zenit, a rival of his countrymen in the next round. The third place helped them fall to the UEFA Europa League, but fortune eluded them: sixteenths will rival the mighty Manchester City.