Away from Alvalade? No issue for Rui Borges' Sporting; the stats | OneFootball

Sporting once again showed their strength away from Alvalade and definitively wrote themselves into Portuguese football history. With the win over Rio Ave last Monday, the Lions reached 27 consecutive away league matches without defeat.

The team coached by Rui Borges now depends only on itself to secure a place in next season’s Champions League, but the numbers achieved by the Sporting manager are already impressive far beyond their position in the Portuguese League table.

Never before had Sporting managed such a long unbeaten run away from home in the league. The previous best record belonged to Paulo Bento’s team, which went 23 consecutive matches without losing away between 2005 and 2007.

With this milestone, the green-and-whites matched historic runs by Benfica and Porto, but they still remain below the all-time record set by Sérgio Conceição’s Dragons. Between 2020 and 2022, they reached 29 consecutive away matches without a single defeat.

The last time Sporting lost away from home was around a year and a half ago, against Moreirense, still with João Pereira in charge. Since then, Rui Borges has managed to turn the Lions into an extremely solid away side, keeping alive the possibility of breaking the historic record as early as next season.

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