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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2017/18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Ernst-Happel-Stadion - Vienna Thursday 7 December 2017 19.00CET (19.00 local time) FK Austria Wien Group D - Matchday 6 AEK Athens FC Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 13 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 FK Austria Wien - AEK Athens FC Thursday 7 December 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Livaja 28, 90; 28/09/2017 GS AEK Athens FC - FK Austria Wien 2-2 Athens Monschein 43, Tajouri-Shradi 49 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FK Austria Wien 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 AEK Athens FC 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 FK Austria Wien - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FK Austria Wien - Aris 1-1 26/08/2010 PO Vienna Linz 56; Ruiz 42 Thessaloniki FC agg: 1-2 Aris Thessaloniki FC - FK 17/08/2010 PO 1-0 Salonika Ruiz 90+3 Austria Wien UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FK Austria Wien - Panionios 06/12/2007 GS 0-1 Vienna Majstorovic 90+1 GSS UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Anastasiadis 23, Panathinaikos FC - FK Austria 2-1 29/09/1982 R1 Athens Charalambidis 80; Wien agg: 2-3 Polster 54 FK Austria Wien - Panathinaikos Polster 7, Steinkogler 15/09/1982 R1 2-0 Vienna FC 14 AEK Athens FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kainz 59; Manolas 10, 14/12/2011 GS SK Sturm Graz - AEK Athens FC 1-3 Graz Burns 43, Klonaridis 77 Standfest 50 (og); 29/09/2011 GS AEK Athens FC - SK Sturm Graz 1-2 Athens Burgstaller 87, Haas 90+2 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 04/10/2007 R1 FC Salzburg - AEK Athens FC Salzburg Lokvenc 20 agg: 1-3 2 FK Austria Wien - AEK Athens FC Thursday 7 December 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna UEFA Cup Geraldo Alves 2, 20/09/2007 R1 AEK Athens FC - FC Salzburg 3-0 Athens Rivaldo 57, Kone 88 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 06/11/1997 R2 SK Sturm Graz - AEK Athens FC Graz Spiteri 82 agg: 1-2 Batista 75, Veridiano 23/10/1997 R2 AEK Athens FC - SK Sturm Graz 2-0 Athens 84 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Vlachos 28; 23/11/1994 GS AEK Athens FC - FC Salzburg 1-3 Athens Pfeifenberger 7, 9, Hasenhüttl 76 14/09/1994 GS FC Salzburg - AEK Athens FC 0-0 Vienna Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FK Austria Wien 3 1 1 1 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 6 1 2 3 6 7 AEK Athens FC 5 2 1 2 4 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 9 3 2 4 12 10 3 FK Austria Wien - AEK Athens FC Thursday 7 December 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Match background Austria Wien will book a place in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase for the first time if they end a sorry sequence of home results in Europe and beat AEK Athens; the Greek side will hold on to second place in Group D and progress in their hosts' stead should they avoid defeat in Vienna. • Although a win would put Austria Wien level on points with AEK, they would displace the Athens club from the runners-up berth on the head-to-head rule and would also finish top of a potential three-way head-to-head including group rivals Rijeka. Previous meetings • The teams drew 2-2 when they met for the first time on matchday two in Athens. AEK striker Marko Livaja's second goal of the game, in the 90th minute, denied Austria Wien victory after the visitors had come from behind to lead through Christoph Monschein and Ismael Tajouri-Shradi. • Austria Wien's balance sheet in six encounters with Greek clubs stands at W1 D2 L3; at home it is W1 D1 L1. • AEK's record in nine games against Austrian sides reads W3 D2 L4 (W1 D1 L2 in Austria). Form guide • Austria Wien have failed to register a victory in any of their last seven European home games (D2 L5) and have won just once in 15 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League group matches in Vienna, losing ten of them. • AEK have scored in only one of their last five away games in UEFA competition. However, they are currently on a seven-match unbeaten run in Europe, their last four fixtures having all been drawn. • Last season's Austrian Bundesliga runners-up, Austria Wien have not survived their last five UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns; they did, however, reach the quarter-finals of the 2004/05 competition. • Winners of Greece's end-of-season UEFA Champions League play-offs in 2016/17, AEK have had five previous UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns, most recently in 2011/12. They have only made it into the round of 32 once, in 2007/08. Links and trivia • The journey from Athens to Vienna is around 1,300km. • AEK midfielder Arnór Ingvi Traustason is on loan from Austria Wien's neighbours Rapid Wien, where he arrived in 2016. • AEK's Dmytro Chygrynskiy won the UEFA Cup as a Shakhtar Donetsk player in 2009. • Suspended for next match if booked: Christoph Monschein, Thomas Salamon (Austria Wien); André Simões, Marko Livaja, Hélder Lopes (AEK). The coaches • Austria Wien coach since 2015, Thorsten Fink won the 2001 UEFA Champions League and four German Bundesliga titles as a Bayern midfielder. He also secured back-to-back Swiss Super League championships as coach of Basel from 2009–11. • Manolo Jiménez returned for a second spell as AEK coach in January 2017, having guided the club to 2010/11 Greek Cup glory during his first stint. The ex-Spain international left-back has also coached Sevilla, Real Zaragoza and Al-Rayyan. 4 FK Austria Wien - AEK Athens FC Thursday 7 December 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Team facts FK Austria Wien Formed: 1911 Nickname: Die Veilchen (The Violets) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: (1978) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 24 (2013) Austrian Cup: 27 (2009) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2016/17: group stage 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: UEFA Champions League group stage 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: group stage 2010/11: play-offs 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: first round 2007/08: group stage Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 10-0: Austria Wien v Aris Bonnevoie 28/09/83, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: Aris Bonnevoie v Austria Wien 14/09/83, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-5 twice, most recently v AC Milan 14/09/17, UEFA Europa League group stage 0-4: Austria Wien v Juventus 24/10/90, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup second round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 7-0: Beroe Stara Zagora v Austria Wien 13/09/72, UEFA Cup first round first leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 10-0: Austria Wien v Aris Bonnevoie (see above) • Biggest away win 0-5: Aris Bonnevoie v Austria Wien (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Austria Wien v AC Milan (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 7-0: Beroe Stara Zagora v Austria Wien (see above) AEK Athens Formed: 1924 Nickname: Kitrinomavri (Yellow and Blacks) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 11 (1994) Greek Cup: 15 (2016) 5 FK Austria Wien - AEK Athens FC Thursday 7 December 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2016/17: third qualifying round 2015/16: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2014/15: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2013/14: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2012/13: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2011/12: group stage 2010/11: group stage 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: second qualifying round 2007/08: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: AEK v Grevenmacher 09/08/01, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 1-4: Maccabi Haifa v AEK 12/12/02, UEFA Cup third round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-4: AEK v Sevilla 03/09/07, UEFA Champions League third qualifying round second leg 0-3 on two occasions, most recently v Zenit 16/12/10, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 7-2: Monaco v AEK 18/09/63, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round first leg 5-0 on three occasions, most recently v Barcelona 22/02/01, UEFA Cup fourth round second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 6-0: AEK v Grevenmacher (see above) • Biggest away win 1-4: Maccabi Haifa v AEK (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: AEK v Zenit (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 on three occasions, most recently v Barcelona (see above) 6 FK Austria Wien - AEK Athens FC Thursday 7 December 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Squad list FK Austria Wien Current season All-time QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.