Form guide: Europe's longest current winning runs
Thursday, January 28, 2016
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Paris Saint-Germain claimed a club-record 12th successive victory on Wednesday but, as we discover, they are not the only UEFA Champions League side in all-conquering mood.
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"No matter who plays [for us] at the moment, the team wins," coach Laurent Blanc said on Wednesday after Paris Saint-Germain stretched their run of victories to 12 matches, surpassing a club record set in 2013/14.
At the same time, a few hundred kilometres away in Italy, Juventus were brushing aside Internazionale Milano to make it nine successive wins for them on all fronts – memories of their early-season struggles become ever more distant.
With the business end of the UEFA Champions League coming up fast, several contenders seem to have struck a rich vein of form. Indeed, the four longest ongoing sequences of victories in all competitions belong to clubs with one eye on the round of 16.
Longest current winning runs
12 – Paris (FRA)
9 – Juventus (ITA)
9 – Benfica (POR)
7 – Barcelona (ESP)
6 – AEK Athens (GRE, could make it 7 tonight)
6 – Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)
6 – AaB (DEN)
6 – Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)
6 – Birkirkara (MTA)
