Lage was right! National press confirms Benfica’s incredible record | OneFootball

Bruno Lage's Benfica is one of the highest-scoring teams of the last 70 years. This topic became a subject of conversation at the last press conference previewing the match against Tondela, at Estádio da Luz. Above the Sadino coach, there are only a few names that have marked the club's history.

According to information provided by the newspaper O Jogo, the current Eagles' coach recorded two of the six highest-scoring records for the Club. The first came in his first season in charge of the main squad, in 2018/19, with 140 goals, and in the last season with 145 goals scored.

In this impressive record, only four other names have made Benfica as or more prolific than Bruno Lage. These were the cases of János Biri with 146 goals in 1944/45 and 140 in 1946/47; Béla Guttman with 144 in 1960/61 and 145 in 1961/62; Lajos Czeizler with 169 in 1963/64 and Elek Schwartz with 157 in 1964/65.

It is worth remembering that the start of the season and the number of goals scored by the team was a topic of conversation in the preview conference for the game against Tondela: “Do you remember the last season when Benfica started like this? With four games, four wins, and zero goals conceded? It's the first time, which is why you don't remember. This group of players is doing this without having holidays, without preseason.”

“Four wins without conceding goals, five in a row without conceding goals, and won the Super Cup. If you want to look at the number of goals... If you look back 60, 70 years, in two seasons there's a Portuguese coach,” concluded Bruno Lage on this topic.

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