The series ended on 10 April 1993 with an own goal from midfielder Éric Guérit 79 minutes into a 2-1 home win over Montpellier Hérault SC. He did not play the following game but was unbeaten for 12 full matches after that. Ivankov, 33, is still playing, and scoring, for Bursaspor in Turkey.ġ,176: Gaëtan Huard, FC Girondins de Bordeaux Huard's unbeaten run started on 4 December 1992 during a 5-0 loss at Paris Saint-Germain FC. Porto would concede just eleven goals in 34 matches that season, with current Sporting Clube de Portugal coach Paulo Bento – then playing for Vitória SC – finally ending Vítor Baía's run from the penalty spot.ġ,190: Dimitar Ivankov, PFC Levski Sofia Not content to simply make saves, Bulgarian international Ivankov also scored four penalties during a run spanning two seasons, kicking off in a 3-2 win against rivals PFC CSKA Sofia on 6 March 1999. ![]() Resino is now coach at the Vicente Calderón.ġ,221: Marios Praxitelous, AC Omonia The Cypriot goalkeeper wrote his name into the record books with a run lasting from 25 October 1981 until 13 February 1982, helping Omonia to the second of five straight league titlesġ,192: Vítor Baía, FC Porto The long-time Porto No1 holds the record in Portugal set during the 1991/92 title-winning campaign. ![]() Atlético finished runners-up to FC Barcelona in the league that season but Resino, whose Liga record still stands, collected the Zamora trophy awarded to the goalkeeper with the best record in the top flight. ![]() When he was beaten by Samir Nasri in Arsenal FC's 2-1 defeat of United on 8 November last year, few thought that feat would be unmatched in the league until Peter Løvenkrands's strike for Newcastle nearly four months later.ġ,275: Abel Resino, Club Atlético de Madrid Resino started his 14-match streak on 25 November 1990 and went on until 17 March 1991 before a young Luis Enrique of Real Sporting de Gijón finally brought it to an end. His claim to fame, though, remains this incredible run which spanned 16 matches from 3 March 1990 to 26 September 1990.ġ,311 minutes: Edwin van der Sar, Manchester United FC Even before his recent heroics Van der Sar already was in the record books as the Netherlands' most-capped played with 130 appearances, as well as having achieved the feat of winning the UEFA Champions League 13 years apart with different clubs: 1995 at AFC Ajax and 2008 for United. He was 40 years, three months and 24 days old when he featured against AFC Ajax in December 2003. salutes the top ten in that reckoning, all of whom trail Brazilian world record holder Mazarópi, who did not concede for CR Vasco da Gama from until 7 September 1978 – 1,816 playing minutes.ġ,390 minutes: Dany Verlinden, Club Brugge KV Verlinden won five Belgian titles with the Black and Blues in a 16-year spell between 19, and once held the record – later broken by Alessandro Costacurta – for being the oldest player in the UEFA Champions League. The goal brought the game to life as Van der Sar prevented a Rio Ferdinand own goal with a terrific instinctive save while Chelsea’s Petr Cech kept out Carlos Tevez’s stooping header and then tipped over Michael Carrick’s follow-up drive.Ĭhelsea had shown little but levelled when Essien’s long-range shot was deflected into the path of Lampard, who duly dispatched it from six metres.By conceding early in Manchester United FC's 2-1 win against Newcastle United FC last night, Edwin van der Sar fell just 79 minutes short of former Club Brugge KV goalkeeper Dany Verlinden's record of 1,390 without conceding a goal in a European top flight. United’s Portugal winger had been inexplicably left unmarked to head home a curled right-wing cross from fullback Wes Brown for the 42nd goal of his all-conquering season. “John Terry’s a man’s man, not many centre halves will stand up and say I will take the last penalty because everybody knows that’s the thing it can hang on,” said Frank Lampard, whose equaliser had cancelled out Cristiano Ronaldo’s opener. ![]() It was a heartbreaking night for Terry, who had the chance to take the trophy to Stamford Bridge for the first time but sent what would have been the winning penalty against the outside of the post.
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