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The defeat (0-2) last Wednesday with FC Porto in the Aveiro Super Cup, transformed Jorge Jesús into the first coach in the centennial history of Benfica to reach double digits in the statistics of the failures with the dragons, raising to the total number of games lost against the opponent, a total of 21 games already played.
Which translates into a loss percentage of 47.6 percent. With seven wins (33.3 percent) and four draws (19.1 percent), Jesus failed to beat the dragons in two-thirds of the games played by the eagle on his chest and looms a negative record already in January, the month that reserves classic in the dragon in round 14. This is because FC Porto, by winning the Super Cup, beat Benfica for the fourth consecutive duel (Bruno Lage lost the two Championship classics last season, which joined, with Nélson Veríssimo as interim coach, for defeat in the Portuguese Cup final).
History tells us that such a demonstration of superiority within the four lines had already occurred twice in the 20th century (in the 50s and 80s), and once in the first decade of the current century, so the classic that follows (and which may precede another in the same month if Benfica and FC Porto beat SC Braga and Sporting respectively in the League Cup Final Four) can determine what has never been seen before. In other words, a cycle of five consecutive classics, all with victories for blues and whites. If such a scenario takes place, Jesús will equal the Brazilian Otto Glória as the third coach in the history of the eagle with the highest percentage (50) of defeats against dragons, who is already Luz’s coach with the most classics lost with dragons. .
