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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadium Krasnodar - Krasnodar Tuesday 22 September 2020 21.00CET (22.00 local time) FC Krasnodar Play-off, First leg PAOK FC Last updated 09/12/2020 23:56CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Match officials 8 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 11 Team facts 12 Legend 14 1 FC Krasnodar - PAOK FC Tuesday 22 September 2020 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadium Krasnodar, Krasnodar Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ari 33, Joãozinho 67 05/11/2015 GS FC Krasnodar - PAOK FC 2-1 Krasnodar (P); Mak 90+1 22/10/2015 GS PAOK FC - FC Krasnodar 0-0 Salonika Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Krasnodar 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 PAOK FC 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 FC Krasnodar - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Utkin 10; El Arabi 11, 27/08/2019 PO FC Krasnodar - Olympiacos FC Krasnodar agg: 1-6 48 Guerrero 30, 21/08/2019 PO Olympiacos FC - FC Krasnodar 4-0 Piraeus Randjelovic 78, 85, Podence 89 PAOK FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 14/08/2018 QR3 FC Spartak Moskva - PAOK FC Moscow agg: 2-3 Prijović 29 (P), Limnios 37, Pelkas 08/08/2018 QR3 PAOK FC - FC Spartak Moskva 3-2 Salonika 44; Popov 7, Promes 17 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Vieirinha 15 (P); 15/12/2011 GS PAOK FC - FC Rubin 1-1 Salonika Valdez 48 Natcho 52, Dyadyun 29/09/2011 GS FC Rubin - PAOK FC 2-2 Kazan 66; Athanasiadis 23, Fotakis 81 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Ignashevich 80; 22/02/2011 R32 PFC CSKA Moskva - PAOK FC Moscow agg: 2-1 Muslimović 67 17/02/2011 R32 PAOK FC - PFC CSKA Moskva 0-1 Salonika Necid 29 2 FC Krasnodar - PAOK FC Tuesday 22 September 2020 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadium Krasnodar, Krasnodar Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Krasnodar 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 3 7 PAOK FC 4 1 2 1 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 8 1 5 2 8 9 3 FC Krasnodar - PAOK FC Tuesday 22 September 2020 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadium Krasnodar, Krasnodar Match background Krasnodar and PAOK are both aiming for a UEFA Champions League group stage debut as they meet in Russia in the first leg of their play-off. • While the Russian club are competing in only their second European Cup campaign, PAOK's previous six forays into the UEFA Champions League have all ended in the qualifying phase, including in each of the last two seasons. Previous meetings • The teams were paired together in the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League group stage, Krasnodar winning 2-1 at Stadion Kuban after a goalless draw at Stadio Toumba. Ari opened the scoring for the Russian club in the second match. • Those four points helped Krasnodar progress to the round of 32 as group winners, with PAOK eliminated in third place behind Borussia Dortmund. Form guide Krasnodar • This is only Krasnodar's seventh season in UEFA competition – they have featured every year since making their debut in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League. In 2019/20, they were eliminated by Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League play-offs and went on to finish third in their UEFA Europa League section behind Basel and Getafe, picking up nine points from their six matches (W3 L3). • Third in the Russian Premier League for the second season in a row in 2019/20, this is Krasnodar's fifth European Cup match. The first ended in a 1-0 home defeat by Porto in the 2019/20 third qualifying round first leg, only for them to then turn round the tie with a remarkable 3-2 victory in Portugal in which they led 3-0 at half-time. However, Olympiacos proved too strong for Murad Musayev's team in the play-offs, winning 4-0 in Greece and 2-1 in Russia. • Byki have therefore lost both their previous home UEFA Champions League matches, and have won only two of their last seven home games in UEFA competition (D2 L3) – although those victories did come in their two most recent fixtures at Stadium Krasnodar, against Trabzonspor (3-1) and Basel (1-0). • Krasnodar have won three of their four UEFA Europa League play-off ties but lost the most recent, on away goals against Crvena zvezda in 2017/18 (3-2 h, 1-2 a). • Krasnodar are bidding to become the seventh Russian club to compete in the UEFA Champions League group stage, and the first newcomers from the country since Rostov in 2016/17. • Those 2015 meetings with PAOK and last season's two losses to Olympiacos are Krasnodar's only previous four games against Greek clubs. PAOK • This is PAOK's ninth European Cup campaign, and seventh in the UEFA Champions League era. They reached the second round on debut in 1976/77, but have won only six of their 14 ties in the competition. • The Greek club have picked up two notable scalps already in 2020/21, however, both in single-leg ties played at home. Abel Ferreira's side beat Beşiktaş 3-1 in the second qualifying round and two-time European champions Benfica 2-1 in the third qualifying round, new signing Andrija Živković scoring the winner on his PAOK debut in the latter shortly after his release from the Lisbon club. • PAOK's 2019/20 UEFA Champions League campaign lasted a single tie, Ajax winning 5-4 on aggregate (2-2 h, 2-3 a) in the third qualifying round. The Salonika side moved into the UEFA Europa League play-offs but again their hopes were quickly extinguished, Slovan Bratislava ousting them on away goals (0-1 a, 3-2 h). • PAOK have lost both previous UEFA Champions League play-offs, going down 4-3 on aggregate against Schalke in 2013/14 (1-1 a, 2-3 h) and 5-2 to Benfica in 2018/19 (1-1 a, 1-4 h). Their UEFA Europa League play-off record is W5 L4 with defeats in the two most recent. • Only three Greek clubs have appeared in the UEFA Champions League group stage: Olympiacos (19 appearances), Panathinaikos (nine) and AEK Athens (five). • Before winning their last three home European matches, PAOK were without a win in five in Salonika (D1 L4). • PAOK's eight previous fixtures with Russian clubs have all come in the last ten years. Most recently they beat Spartak Moskva 3-2 at home and on aggregate in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. The win in Salonika was their first against Russian opponents at the seventh attempt, their overall record now standing at W1 D5 L2. They have drawn three of their four games in Russia, the exception that defeat by Krasnodar. Links and trivia 4 FC Krasnodar - PAOK FC Tuesday 22 September 2020 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadium Krasnodar, Krasnodar • PAOK's Icelandic international Sverrir Ingason played in Russia for Rostov between 2017 and joining PAOK in January 2019; his 81st-minute goal earned a 2-2 draw at Krasnodar on 4 November 2018. • PAOK's Léo Jabá spent 2017/18 with Russia club Akhmat Grozny, where his team-mates included goalkeeper Evgeni Gorodov, recently re-signed by Krasnodar. • Krasnodar's Swedish international striker Marcus Berg played in Greece for Panathinaikos between 2013 and 2017. He scored ten goals in 15 appearances against PAOK, including a hat-trick in Pana's 4-1 win in the 2013/14 Greek Cup final. • PAOK midfielder Omar El Kaddouri was in the Morocco team that suffered a 2-0 friendly loss to Russia in Moscow on 6 June 2014. 5 FC Krasnodar - PAOK FC Tuesday 22 September 2020 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadium Krasnodar, Krasnodar Squad list FC Krasnodar Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Evgeni Gorodov RUS 13/12/1985 34 - - - - - - - - - - - 39 Matvei Safonov RUS 25/02/1999 21 - - - - - 7 - - - 11 - 66 Denis Adamov RUS 20/02/1998 22 - - - - - - - - - - - 71 Sergei Eshchenko RUS 01/03/2001 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 88 Andrei Sinitsin RUS 23/06/1988 32 - - - - - - - - - 14 - Defenders 2 Egor Sorokin RUS 04/11/1995 24 - - - - - 2 - - - 2 - 4 Aleksandr Martynovich BLR 26/08/1987 33 S - - - - 7 - - - 41 - 6 Cristian Ramírez ECU 12/08/1994 26 - - - - - 7 - - - 29 - 28 Igor Smolnikov RUS 08/08/1988 32 - - - - - 5 - 18 - 47 - 40 Andrey Ivashin RUS 30/06/1999 21 - - - - - - - - - - - 61 Ilya Martynov RUS 25/01/2000 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 65 Nikolai Bochko RUS 01/03/1999 21 - - - - - - - - - - - 84 Viacheslav Litvinov 01/04/2001 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 98 Sergei Petrov RUS 02/01/1991 29 - - - - - 7 1 - - 44 1 Midfielders 7 Rémy Cabella FRA 08/03/1990 30 - - - - - 5 3 6 - 16 - 8 Yuri Gazinski RUS 20/07/1989 31 - - - - - 6 - - - 47 3 10 Wanderson BEL 07/10/1994 25 - - - - - 6 1 - - 26 2 14 Kristoffer Olsson SWE 30/06/1995 25 - - - - - 7 - - - 39 1 15 Aleks Matsukatov RUS 11/01/1999 21 - - - - - 5 - - - - - 16 Viktor Claesson SWE 02/01/1992 28 - - - - - 5 2 - - 43 12 31 Kaio BRA 08/09/1995 25 - - - - - 6 - - - - - 47 Daniil Utkin RUS 12/10/1999 20 - - - - - 7 1 - - 6 1 52 Tonny Vilhena NED 03/01/1995 25 - - - - - 4 1 6 - 34 3 53 Aleksandr Chernikov RUS 01/02/2000 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 63 Nikita Sergeev RUS 17/10/1999 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 72 Rustam Khalnazarov RUS 20/07/2000 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 74 Eduard Spertsyan RUS 07/06/2000 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 77 Ruslan Kambolov RUS 01/01/1990 30 - - - - - 1 - - - 16 - 81 Leon Sabua RUS 01/09/2000 20 - - - - - - - - - - - Forwards 9 Ari RUS 11/12/1985 34 - - - - - - - 11 3 60 21 33 Marcus Berg SWE 17/08/1986 34 - - - - - 7 4 - - 60 23 37 Ilia Vorotnikov RUS 11/02/2001 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 67 Maksim Kutovoi RUS 01/07/2001 19 - - - - - 4 - - - - - 93 Magomed Suleymanov RUS 16/12/1999 20 - - - - - 7 1 - - 21 6 Coach - Murad Musaev RUS 10/11/1983 36 - - - - - - - - - - - 6 FC Krasnodar - PAOK FC Tuesday 22 September 2020 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadium Krasnodar, Krasnodar PAOK FC Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No.