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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estádio do Dragão - Porto Thursday 19 September 2019 21.00CET (20.00 local time) FC Porto Group G - Matchday 1 BSC Young Boys Last updated 28/02/2020 15:27CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 FC Porto - BSC Young Boys Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Dragão, Porto Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams FC Porto - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Brahimi 14, Herrera 4-0 10/03/2015 R16 FC Porto - FC Basel 1893 Porto 47, Casemiro 56, agg: 5-1 Aboubakar 76 González 11; Danilo 18/02/2015 R16 FC Basel 1893 - FC Porto 1-1 Basel 79 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Petrić 78, Chapuisat Grasshopper Club Zürich - FC 2-3 22/08/2001 QR3 Zurich 87; Clayton 14, Porto agg: 4-5 Capucho 43, Deco 80 Paredes 6, Hélder FC Porto - Grasshopper Club 08/08/2001 QR3 2-2 Porto Postiga 59; Nuñez 50, Zürich Petrić 57 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Jorge Costa 50, 4-0 Kostadinov 64, 04/11/1992 R2 FC Porto - FC Sion Porto agg: 6-2 Domingos 85, Magalhães 86 Orlando 54, Assis 59; 21/10/1992 R2 FC Sion - FC Porto 2-2 Sion Semedo 78, Couto 81 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Grasshopper Club Zürich - FC 3-0 Sulser 26, Koller 66, 05/11/1980 R2 Zurich Porto agg 3-2 (aet) Pfister 118 ET (P) FC Porto - Grasshopper Club 22/10/1980 R2 2-0 Porto Texeira 36, Sousa 54 Zürich BSC Young Boys - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Mayuka 61, Farnerud 2-2 25/08/2011 PO BSC Young Boys - SC Braga Berne 81; Hélder Barbosa agg: 2-2 ag 24, Lima 78 18/08/2011 PO SC Braga - BSC Young Boys 0-0 Braga 2 FC Porto - BSC Young Boys Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Dragão, Porto Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Porto 4 3 1 0 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 8 4 3 1 18 10 BSC Young Boys 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 3 FC Porto - BSC Young Boys Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Dragão, Porto Match background Porto and Young Boys meet for the first time in UEFA competition to open a highly competitive UEFA Europa League Group G, the two clubs having both crossed over to the competition after losing their opening European ties of the 2019/20 season in the UEFA Champions League qualifying phase. Previous meetings • Porto are undefeated at home to Swiss opponents, winning three of their four matches. Their last such encounter at the Estádio do Dragão was a 4-0 defeat of Basel in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League round of 16, which took them into the quarter-finals following a 1-1 first-leg draw. • Young Boys' experience of Portuguese opposition is limited to a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League play-off that they lost to Braga on away goals (0-0 a, 2-2 h). Form guide Porto • Domestic runners-up in league and cup last season – to Benfica and Sporting CP respectively – Porto also reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, where they were beaten by eventual winners Liverpool (0-2 a, 1-4 h). • The Dragons' bid to return to the UEFA Champions League group stage this term – for a record-equalling 24th time – ended in the third qualifying round when they lost on away goals to Russian debutants Krasnodar, winning the first leg in Russia 1-0 but losing the home return 2-3 after being three goals down at half-time. That defeat sent them directly into the UEFA Europa League group stage, where they have competed just once before – in 2010/11, when they won the trophy. • Since that 2010/11 triumph Porto have played ten matches in the competition – all in the knockout phase – and have won only two, losing five. Their UEFA Europa League group stage record, however, is W5 D1. Young Boys • Champions of Switzerland for the 13th time in 2018/19, having claimed their first league title in 32 years 12 months earlier, Young Boys also reached the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time, finishing bottom of a section in which they competed with Juventus, Manchester United and Valencia. • Having defeated Dinamo Zagreb in last season's UEFA Champions League play-off, YB were unable to stage an encore this term, losing on away goals to Serbian champions Crvena zvezda (2-2 h, 1-1 a). They are therefore competing instead for the sixth time in the UEFA Europa League group stage. Twice before they have made further progress, in 2010/11 and 2014/15, but they have been unsuccessful in their two most recent participations, in 2016/17 and 2017/18. • The Berne club have won just one of their last 18 European away games – in Zagreb last season – and their record on the road in the UEFA Europa League proper is W2 D5 L10. Links and trivia • Young Boys' Miralem Sulejmani played for Porto's rivals Benfica between 2013 and 2015, winning two Portuguese titles. • Saidy Janko signed for Porto ahead of the 2018/19 season but has not yet played an official match for the Dragons and is on loan this term at Young Boys. • Porto are one of three clubs to have won the UEFA Europa League on their debut appearance, the others being Atlético Madrid in the inaugural 2009/10 competition and Chelsea in 2012/13. • Porto are one of three former UEFA Europa League winners in this season's group stage, along with Sevilla and Manchester United. They are also one of four Portuguese clubs involved – the most of any single nation in 2019/20. The coaches • A Portuguese international winger of some repute who scored 12 goals in 56 appearances for his country including a memorable hat-trick against holders Germany in a 3-0 win at UEFA EURO 2000, Sérgio Conceição played for a variety of clubs, winning Serie A with Lazio and three Portuguese Liga titles in two spells with Porto, where he was appointed as head coach in June 2017, replacing Nuno Espírito Santo following a promising stint in France with Nantes. He led Porto to another league title in 2017/18 and the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals the following season. • Appointed by Young Boys as the successor to Adi Hütter in July 2018, Gerardo Seoane emulated his Austrian predecessor by steering the Berne club to the Swiss Super League title. He also oversaw YB's debut UEFA Champions League campaign, which ended with a home win against Juventus. The former midfielder has a close and lengthy association with his local club Luzern, with whom he started and ended his playing career and also came 4 FC Porto - BSC Young Boys Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Dragão, Porto through the coaching ranks, eventually replacing Markus Babbel as head coach in January 2018. 5 FC Porto - BSC Young Boys Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Dragão, Porto Team facts FC Porto Formed: 1893 Nickname: Dragões (The Dragons) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Cup (2): 1987, 2004 • UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League (2): 2003, 2011 • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: (1984) • UEFA Super Cup (1): 1987, (2003), (2004), (2011) • European/South American Cup (2): 1987, 2004 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 28 (2018) Portuguese Cup: 16 (2011) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2017/18: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2016/17: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2015/16: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2014/15: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2013/14: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2012/13: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2011/12: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2010/11: winners 2009/10: UEFA Champions League round of 16 Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 9-0: Porto v Rabat Ajax 17/09/86, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 1-8: Portadown v Porto 03/10/90, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Porto v Liverpool 14/02/18, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-1 twice, most recently v Bayern München 21/04/15, UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg 5-0 twice, most recently v Arsenal 09/03/10, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 7-0: Porto v Avenir Beggen 17/09/75, first round first leg • Biggest away win 2-5: Spartak Moskva v Porto 14/04/11, quarter-final second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: Porto v Nantes 15/09/71, first round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0 twice, most recently v Manchester City 22/02/12, round of 32 second leg 6 FC Porto - BSC Young Boys Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Dragão, Porto BSC Young Boys Formed: 1898 Nickname: YB, Die Gelb-Schwarzen (Yellow and Blacks) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 13 (2019) Swiss Cup: 6 (1987) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: UEFA Champions League group stage 2017/18: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions