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Record-breaking Porto back on top in style

Porto’s imperious march to the Portuguese championship – the Dragons’ third title in five seasons with Sergio Conceicao at the helm – owed much more to the technical excellence, tactical astuteness and front-foot football than the vigour and hard running that had characterised the two previous conquests of the Primeira Liga under their firebrand manager.

Previous incarnations of Conceicao’s league-winning sides were personified by the man mountains that were Moussa Marega and

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