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 | | Atletico Madrid with new record - 16 consecutive victories in Europe26.10.2012 |
After winning with 2:1 at home against Academica Coimbra last night, Atletico Madrid break the record for most consecutive wins in matches of the Euro tournaments.
Diego Simeone's team now has 16 consecutive success in Europe, and this is the longest triumph series for a team in the tournament under the auspices of UEFA ever.
Atletico Madrid began their series of victories on Nov. 3, 2011, when defeated Udinese with 4:0 in a match of the group stage of the Europa League, after that did not stop to fight to the finish in Bucharest, where they hit with 3:0 their countrymen from Athletic Bilbao and won the trophy.
On 31 August 2012- Atlético Madrid continued to terrorize their opponents at the areas of the continent, knocking the Euro Champion Chelsea with 4:1 and won the European Super Cup.
This season they recorded three victories in their first three matches in Group B of Europa League. The next three games of Atletico in a stream are against Academica (as a guest in Portugal) Hapoel Tel Aviv (as host) and Victoria Plzen (as a guest in Czech Republic) and will be a huge sensation if their winning streak continued until 1/16 -finals.
An interesting fact is that Atlético Madrid have whole 16 consecutive success in Europe, but in the Primera Division the metropolitan are modest and their longest range is 10 wins (in 1983).
Currently the composition of Diego Simeone is second in the standings of the Spanish championship, but equal on points with the leaders Barcelona - 22 of 8 matches.
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