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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Constant Vanden Stock Stadium - Brussels Thursday 25 October 2018 RSC Anderlecht 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Fenerbahçe SK Group D - Matchday 3 Last updated 22/02/2019 14:06CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 13 Match officials 15 Legend 16 1 RSC Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe SK Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers RSC Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe 0-2 29/08/2007 QR3 Brussels Kežman 4, Alex 73 SK agg: 0-3 Fenerbahçe SK - RSC 15/08/2007 QR3 1-0 Istanbul Alex 32 Anderlecht European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Van Himst 5, RSC Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe 5-1 Stockman 32, 50, 70, 15/09/1965 PR Brussels SK agg: 5-1 Hanon 89; Altıparmak 83 08/09/1965 PR Fenerbahçe SK - RSC Anderlecht 0-0 Istanbul Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA RSC Anderlecht 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 5 4 Fenerbahçe SK 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 4 5 RSC Anderlecht - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers RSC Anderlecht - Galatasaray 26/11/2014 GS 2-0 Brussels Mbemba 44, 86 AŞ Burak Yılmaz 90+1; 16/09/2014 GS Galatasaray AŞ - RSC Anderlecht 1-1 Istanbul Praet 52 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Juhász 38, Jovanović 2-2 25/08/2011 PO RSC Anderlecht - Bursaspor Brussels 57; Turgay Bahadır 5, agg: 4-3 Stepanov 68 Gökçek Vederson 36 18/08/2011 PO Bursaspor - RSC Anderlecht 1-2 Bursa (P); Legear 53 (P), Jovanović 77 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ersen Martin 12, 3-1 Kamanan 19 (P), Ayın 04/08/2009 QR3 Sivasspor - RSC Anderlecht Sivas agg: 3-6 Musa 58; Van Damme 34 De Sutter 17, 76, Boussoufa 22, 28/07/2009 QR3 RSC Anderlecht - Sivasspor 5-0 Brussels Chatelle 32, Frutos 90+1 2 RSC Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe SK Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Özdenak 35; Galatasaray AŞ - RSC 1-5 Rensenbrink 25, 64, 03/11/1976 R2 Istanbul Anderlecht agg: 2-10 Haan 42, Ressel 70, Coeck 71 Coeck 10, RSC Anderlecht - Galatasaray Vercauteren 19, 81, 20/10/1976 R2 5-1 Brussels AŞ Rensenbrink 52 (P), 72; Özdenak 49 Fenerbahçe SK - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Fenerbahçe SK have not played against a club from their opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA RSC Anderlecht 6 4 1 1 6 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 12 6 3 3 28 13 Fenerbahçe SK 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 4 5 3 RSC Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe SK Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Match background Defeated without scoring in each of their opening two UEFA Europa League Group D encounters, Anderlecht will be eager to get off the mark as they entertain Fenerbahçe in Brussels. • The record champions of Belgium followed an opening 0-1 defeat at Spartak Trnava with a shock 0-2 loss at home to Dinamo Zagreb. Fenerbahçe, on the other hand, recovered from a 4-1 defeat in Zagreb to claim their first points of the section with a 2-0 victory over Trnava in Istanbul, Algerian striker Islam Slimani – on loan from Leicester City – scoring both goals. Previous meetings • The clubs have been paired together twice before in UEFA competition, Anderlecht winning a European Cup preliminary round tie in 1965 (5-1 at home and on aggregate) and Fenerbahçe winning both legs (1-0 home, 2-0 away) in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round – the first step on the Turkish club's run to the quarter-finals. • Those are Fenerbahçe's only meetings with Belgian opposition, whereas Anderlecht have faced Turkish teams on eight further occasions. They have won three and drawn one of the four games in Brussels, the most recent a 2-0 victory against Fenerbahçe's domestic arch-rivals Galatasaray in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League group stage. Form guide Anderlecht • Third in Belgium last term behind Club Brugge and Standard Liège, Anderlecht's European reward was automatic qualification for the UEFA Europa League group stage. • The Brussels club are competing at this juncture of the competition for the sixth time and have never failed to progress to the knockout phase, reaching the quarter-finals on their most recent participation, in 2016/17. • Anderlecht have lost eight of their last nine European fixtures, failing to score in six of them. They lost all three home games in last season's UEFA Champions League and are now on a run of four successive European losses in Brussels. In the UEFA Europa League group stage, however, their home record is W9 D3 L4. Fenerbahçe • Fenerbahçe finished runners-up in the Turkish league and cup last season, with Galatasaray edging them out in the Süper Lig and unheralded Akhisar shocking them with a 3-2 cup final win. They opened their 2017/18 European campaign with a UEFA Champions League third qualifying round defeat by Benfica (0-1 away, 1-1 home), which sent them directly into the UEFA Europa League group stage. • This is the Istanbul club's fifth appearance at this stage of the competition and they have qualified for the knockout phase on each of the previous four occasions, most recently in 2016/17 when they topped a group featuring eventual winners Manchester United. Their most successful campaign was in 2012/13, when they reached the semi-finals. • Defeated in four of their last five European away fixtures, Fenerbahçe nevertheless have an impressive overall record on the road in the UEFA Europa League group stage, with eight wins in 13 games and just two defeats – albeit both by 1-4 scorelines, against Manchester United at Old Trafford two years ago and in this season's opener at Dinamo Zagreb. The matchday two triumph against Spartak Trnava ended the Yellow Canaries' run of six European games without a win (D2 L4). Links and trivia • As the coach of Gent, Hein Vanhaezebrouck claimed home (2-0) and away (1-0) wins over Turkish club Konyaspor in the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League group stage. • Fenerbahçe's long-serving Turkish international goalkeeper Volkan Demirel – who played in the 2007/08 win at Anderlecht – is married to a former Miss Belgium, Zeynep Sever, with whom he has two daughters. The coaches • After a successful three-year spell with Gent, during which he led the club to their first Belgian title, in 2014/15, and into the UEFA Champions League round of 16 the following season, Hein Vanhaezebrouck was appointed as Anderlecht boss in October 2017, succeeding René Weiler. He first established his coaching credentials during two spells in the dugout of home-town club Kortrijk, whom he had also represented during a modest playing career. • A gifted left-footed midfield all-rounder, Phillip Cocu sandwiched a six-year sojourn at Barcelona with two spells at PSV Eindhoven, collecting five Eredivisie titles in the process. He was also a Dutch international for a decade, winning 101 caps, scoring ten goals and appearing in five major tournaments. His coaching career began as Bert van Marwijk's assistant with the Oranje before he struck out on his own at PSV, winning three league titles in four years. He joined Fenerbahçe in July 2018. 4 RSC Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe SK Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Team facts RSC Anderlecht Formed: 1908 Nicknames: Paars-wit (Purple and Whites, Dutch), Les Mauves et Blancs (Purple and Whites, French) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (2): 1976, (1977), 1978, (1990) • UEFA Cup (1): 1983, (1984) • UEFA Super Cup (2): 1976, 1978 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 34 (2017) Belgian Cup: 9 (2008) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: UEFA Champions League group stage 2016/17: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2015/16: round of 16 2014/15: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2013/14: UEFA Champions League group stage 2012/13: UEFA Champions League group stage 2011/12: round of 32 2010/11: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2009/10: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2008/09: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 9-0: Anderlecht v Derry City 23/11/65, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 1-10: Haka v Anderlecht 14/09/66, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5 twice, most recently v Paris Saint-Germain 23/10/13, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 10-0: Manchester United v Anderlecht 26/09/56, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 6-1 three times, most recently v Mainz 03/11/16, group stage 5-0: Anderlecht v Tiligul Tiraspol 29/07/98, first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-3 on six occasions, most recently v Slavia Praha 18/08/16, play-off first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Anderlecht v Bayern München 06/03/08, round of 16 first leg • Heaviest away