The best winning streak among UEFA's Top 40 leagues

Since Bruno Lage is the first team coach Benfica has a 100% winning record in the Liga NOS. With the 4-0 win over GD Chaves, the Reds have become the emblem with the best winning streak among Europe's Top 40 leagues.

The record of eight straight wins began being built on January 6, at Estádio da Luz, against Rio Ave (4-2). In fact, at the end of the match against the final "flavienses", the coach of Benfica recalled that victory and the importance of the supporters.

“I remember that at 20’ against do Rio Ave, we are trailing by 0-2 and, after we won back the supporters, it was they who won us over with the support”, recalled Bruno Lage.

BENFICA'S EIGHT WINS CYCLE

Since then there have been 33 goals scored (an average of 4,1 per match) and only five conceded (0,6).

If we expand the analyses to UEFA's Top 40 leagues – according to the coefficient –, no club replicates the Reds' record. There are emblems who come close, but no club belongs to the top five leagues of the Old Continent. With seven triumphs we have the Croatian of Dinamo Zagreb, curiously, Benfica's next opponents in the Europa League, Celtic from Scotland and the Poles of Krakow.

With a streak of six consecutive wins, we have Mouscron (Belgium), Midtjylland (Denmark) and the Serbs of Red Star and Radnicki Nis.

Seferovic leads the pack

The Swiss international is confident and you can see that in the goals he scores. Against the Chaves, he found the net again and now racks up 11 goals in the eight matches from winning streak of Benfica in the Liga NOS, the competition in which he is now the top scorer with 15 accurate strikes.

THE GOAL SCORERS OF THE VICTORIOUS CYCLE

Text: Marco Rebelo

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