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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Arena St. Gallen - St Gallen Thursday 3 October 2019 21.00CET (21.00 local time) FC Lugano Group B - Matchday 2 FC Dynamo Kyiv Last updated 14/12/2019 00:51CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 14 Legend 15 1 FC Lugano - FC Dynamo Kyiv Thursday 3 October 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Arena St. Gallen, St Gallen Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams FC Lugano - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Lugano - FC Shakhtar 2-1 Gaspoz 53, Rossi 66; 31/07/2001 2QR Lugano Donetsk agg: 2-4 Aghahowa 13 Bakharev 21, FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC 25/07/2001 2QR 3-0 Donetsk Tymoshchuk 57, Lugano Vorobey 65 FC Dynamo Kyiv - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers BSC Young Boys - FC Dynamo 02/11/2017 GS 0-1 Berne Buyalskiy 70 Kyiv Mbokani 34, FC Dynamo Kyiv - BSC Young 19/10/2017 GS 2-2 Kyiv Morozyuk 49; Assalé Boys 17, 40 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers BSC Young Boys - FC Dynamo 2-0 Hoarau 13 (P), 02/08/2017 QR3 Berne Kyiv agg: 3-3 ag Lotomba 90 Yarmolenko 15, FC Dynamo Kyiv - BSC Young Mbokani 34, Garmash 26/07/2017 QR3 3-1 Kyiv Boys 90+3; Fassnacht 90+1 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Schenkel 29 (og), 07/11/2013 GS FC Thun - FC Dynamo Kyiv 0-2 Thun Yarmolenko 69 Yarmolenko 35, 24/10/2013 GS FC Dynamo Kyiv - FC Thun 3-0 Kyiv Mbokani 60, Gusev 78 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 03/08/2005 2QR FC Thun - FC Dynamo Kyiv Berne Bernardi 90+2 agg: 3-2 Gusev 20, Shatskikh 26/07/2005 2QR FC Dynamo Kyiv - FC Thun 2-2 Kyiv 40; Lustrinelli 38, Aegerter 66 2 FC Lugano - FC Dynamo Kyiv Thursday 3 October 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Arena St. Gallen, St Gallen UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Neuchâtel Xamax FC - FC 2-1 Lesniak 25, Isabella 24/09/1996 R1 Neuchatel Dynamo Kyiv agg: 2-1 54; Maximov 59 FC Dynamo Kyiv - Neuchâtel 10/09/1996 R1 0-0 Kyiv Xamax FC European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Dynamo Kyiv - Grasshopper 3-0 Buryak 17, 88, 29/09/1982 R1 Kyiv Club Zürich agg: 4-0 Demianenko 36 Grasshopper Club Zürich - FC 15/09/1982 R1 0-1 Zurich Hermann 83 (og) Dynamo Kyiv Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Lugano 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 4 FC Dynamo Kyiv 6 3 3 0 6 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 12 6 3 3 18 10 3 FC Lugano - FC Dynamo Kyiv Thursday 3 October 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Arena St. Gallen, St Gallen Match background Defeated on matchday one, Lugano are looking for their first points in UEFA Europa League Group B as they play host in St Gallen to a Dynamo Kyiv side that won their opening fixture. • The Swiss side fell to a 1-0 defeat at F.C. Copenhagen on 19 September as Dynamo won by the same scoreline against their own Scandinavian opponents, Vitaliy Buyalskiy's 84th-minute strike settling the outcome against Malmö in the Ukrainian capital. Previous meetings • Lugano's only official encounters against Ukrainian opponents came in the 2001/02 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round, when they lost 0-3 at Shakhtar Donetsk before winning the second leg 2-1 in Switzerland. • Dynamo have played Swiss clubs 12 times previously in UEFA competition and have won three and lost three of the six games in Switzerland, emerging victorious from the most recent, 1-0 at Young Boys thanks to another Buyalskiy goal, in the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League group stage. Their only other previous UEFA Europa League fixture on Swiss soil also resulted in victory, 2-0 against Thun in the 2013/14 group stage. Form guide Lugano • Lugano finished third in the 2018/19 Swiss Super League – 45 points behind champions Young Boys – to secure group stage involvement in the UEFA Europa League for the second time in three seasons. • Also third in 2016/17, Lugano – from the Italian-speaking Ticino canton – secured a first ever group stage participation the following season, having been absent from UEFA competition since 2002/03. They won three and lost three of their six matches, finishing third in Group G. • The Swiss side have won four of their last five European home fixtures, although the exception came on matchday two of their 2017/18 UEFA Europa League campaign, a 1-2 defeat by Romanian side FCSB. Dynamo Kyiv • Ukrainian league runners-up to Shakhtar Donetsk last term, for the third year in a row, Dynamo entered the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round but were defeated by Club Brugge (0-1 a, 3-3 h), which sent them directly into the UEFA Europa League group stage. • This is Dynamo's seventh UEFA Europa League group stage campaign, five of the previous six having been successful, including last season when three wins and two draws secured their place in the knockout phase with a game to spare. They then eliminated Olympiacos to reach the last 16, where they were overwhelmed 8-0 on aggregate by Chelsea (0-3 a, 0-5 h). • Dynamo took seven points from nine on their travels in last season's group stage. The defeat at Stamford Bridge ended a run of six away games unbeaten in the UEFA Europa League (W2 D4). They have won half of their 18 group games in the competition outside Ukraine (W9 D4 L5). Links and trivia • Domen Črnigoj (Lugano) and Benjamin Verbić (Dynamo) are current team-mates for the Slovenia national side. • Lugano's Filip Holender and Dynamo's Tamás Kádár play together for Hungary. • Dynamo's Carlos Zambrano played in Switzerland for Basel on loan in 2018/19 but did not feature in any of the club's four games against Lugano. • Dynamo Kyiv hold the record for the most draws registered in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final (19). The coaches • A former Swiss international midfielder whose 35 caps included a couple of outings at UEFA EURO 2004, Fabio Celestini started out with hometown club Lausanne before moving abroad to play in France (Troyes, Marseille) and Spain (Levante, Getafe). His coaching career took off back at Lausanne in 2015/16 as he led the club to promotion as Challenge League champions. He left in April 2018 shortly before their relegation from the top flight but resurfaced at Lugano six months later and led the side to a third-placed finish in the Super League. • Following a lengthy stint as Dynamo Kyiv's sporting director, club great Olexiy Mykhaylychenko was appointed as head coach for a second time in August 2019 following the dismissal of Aleksandr Khatskevich. A star of EURO '88 and the same year's Olympic Games in Seoul, where he won a gold medal, the blond left-footer claimed league titles for Dynamo (four) as well as his subsequent clubs Sampdoria and Rangers (five). A two-time Ukrainian champion as a coach in his first stint at Dynamo, from 2002–04, he led the Ukraine national side from January 2008 to December 2009. 4 FC Lugano - FC Dynamo Kyiv Thursday 3 October 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Arena St. Gallen, St Gallen Team facts FC Lugano Formed: 1908 Nickname: Bianconeri (Black-and-White) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (1949) Swiss Cup: 3 (1993) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: did not take part in UEFA competition 2017/18: group stage 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Lugano v Neman Grodno 18/08/93, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round first leg • Biggest away win 1-2: FCSB v Lugano 07/12/17, UEFA Europa League group stage 0-1: Internazionale v Lugano 26/09/95, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-3 twice, most recently v Real Madrid 29/09/93, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-1: Viktoria Plzeň v Lugano 02/11/17, UEFA Europa League group stage 3-0 three times, most recently v Ventspils 15/08/02, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 4-0: Lugano v Jeunesse Esch 23/08/95, preliminary round second leg • Biggest away win 1-2: FCSB v Lugano (see above) 0-1: Internazionale v Lugano (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: Lugano v Legia Warszawa 15/09/71, first round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-1: Viktoria Plzeň v Lugano (see above) 3-0: Ventspils v Lugano 15/08/02, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg FC Dynamo Kyiv 5 FC Lugano - FC Dynamo Kyiv Thursday 3 October 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Arena St.