Elec Schwartz’s course under fire

Under the leadership of Roger Schmidt, Benfica made the sixth best start in Benfica’s history.

Tonight, Benfica will try to add another victory to their long list of successes this season, in order to keep their distance from the top of the rankings of the most direct followers. If he succeeds in doing so, or even if he gives up a tie in his visit to Estoril, he will go into the 23rd match without knowing the taste of defeat, thus leaving behind the record of Jorge Jesus, in 2011/12, with 22 matches unbeaten, and being in the six places First in this streak unbeaten at the start of the season.

Escaping defeat in the double confrontation with the Canary Islands (La Liga and Portugal Cup), the Reds will remain in this virtual race, which has a lot of history and past successes.

Fifth place now on the horizon is held by Eagles Elec Schwartz, who had 24 unscathed games in the 1964/65 season. The degree of difficulty can then move to the 26-game series, which was scored by John Mortimer (1977/78) and Jimmy Hagan (1971/72). Finally, there was still a resistance encounter, later on, with 31 unbeaten matches: Bella Guttman, in 1959/60.