Benfica - Santa Clara revive a record that stood for 15 years… | OneFootball

On a night to forget, Benfica, returning to competition, dropped their first points in a draw against Santa Clara. However, the bad news doesn’t end there. Given the story of the match, the Eagles played a game that brought back a record that hadn’t happened in 15 years.

According to the newspaper Record, in its Saturday edition on September 13, the last time the Reds dropped points at Estádio da Luz while having a numerical advantage was precisely a decade and a half ago, in a defeat against Académica de Coimbra, by two goals to one.

It was August 15, 2010, in the very first round of the 2010/11 National Championship, where the Luz club had just been crowned champions in Jorge Jesus’s debut season. In that match, the first of a campaign that left much to be desired, the Reds ended up being ‘betrayed’ by Roberto Jiménez, the goalkeeper signed that season, who looked very bad in the moments of the visitors’ goals.

However, the similarities don’t end there. Just like in yesterday’s match, the team from Coimbra, then led by the late Jorge Costa, scored the winning goal in the 90+2 minute, just as the Azoreans did, after a poor play by Otamendi, who admitted his mistake in the play that led to the equalizer.

It’s worth remembering that against the islanders, Benfica gained a numerical advantage after Paulo Victor was sent off, following a reckless challenge in which he caught Tomás Araújo in the face with his studs. At first, João Pinheiro only showed a yellow card, but after a VAR review, the referee from Braga changed it to red, a decision that, according to the experts, was correct.

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