It's a bittersweet moment for Iker Casillas at Porto; his team aren't performing anywhere close to the level required but the Spanish keeper's personal performances are the best of his career, something that his numbers confirm.Benfica are already seven points ahead of their great rivals with just 11 games played. Further, Porto were eliminated from the Portuguese Cup in the first round and will have their qualification at stake when they play the last group game of the 2016/17 Champions League.For his part, Casillas has conceded only 9 goals in 18 matches, an average of 0.5 goals per game. Those numbers are only comparable with the season he spent as understudy to Diego Lopez at Real Madrid - and principally because he had no real continuity in the team.
Casillas played just the Champions League and Copa Del Rey games in 2013/14, conceding 12 goals in 24 games.Iker Casillas is off to an excellent start to the season at Porto, in such fine form that he has nothing to envy of Manuel Neuer, Gianluigi Buffon or Jan Oblak. With only four goals conceded in nine matches, Neuer, Oblak and Buffon have all conceded more with five, six, and seven goals respectively. Only Tottenham's Hugo Lloris and PSV's Jeroen Zoet can boast similar numbers at the start of the current campaign. With six clean sheets and some spectacular saves, Casillas is without a doubt returning to the type of form that made him a Real Madrid legend, which now places him amongst Europe's best once more.
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