Porto stay perfect with +15 goal difference atop Primeira Liga
Seven wins from seven, 18 scored and 3 conceded, and a +15 goal difference that no one in Primeira Liga has matched.
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Porto have won all 7 matches of their Primeira Liga season, and the margin is not narrow. 18 goals scored, 3 conceded. A goal difference of +15 after 7 rounds.
The latest of those wins came at home against SL Benfica on Sunday 20 September, finishing 3-1. It was the seventh straight victory in the league, and it kept Porto on 21 points at the top of the table, ahead of SL Benfica on 16.
What separates the leaders is not the points total alone. SL Benfica also sit on a goal difference of +15. The gap at the top is five points, and it exists because Porto have not dropped a single one.
The defensive numbers are the stark part. Three goals against in seven games. No other side in the division is close to that rate, and it explains why the team has yet to draw or lose: 7 wins, 0 draws, 0 defeats.
The run stretches further back than this season's league fixtures. 8W is the current streak, and the form line reads WWWWW.
Home form: 13 wins, 2 draws, 0 losses. Away form: 10 wins, 1 draws, 2 losses. The away record is where the only blemishes live, and even there the totals are lopsided.
Next comes a trip to Marítimo on Saturday 10 October, matchday 8. On paper it is the kind of fixture a leader is expected to take care of. On the evidence of seven matches, expectations have stopped being the interesting question.
Can anyone in Primeira Liga actually score against them? Vangelis Pavlidis leads the scoring charts with 8 for SL Benfica, and Luis Suárez has 6 for Sporting CP. Neither has faced this defence yet in its current shape.
Sporting CP sit third on 15 points with a goal difference of +9. Santa Clara are fourth on 15. Both are already chasing a team that has conceded three times all season.