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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Olimpico - Rome Tuesday 8 December 2020 18.55CET (18.55 local time) SS Lazio Group F - Matchday 6 Club Brugge Last updated 18/03/2021 17:13CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 7 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Competition facts 16 Team facts 17 Legend 19 1 SS Lazio - Club Brugge Tuesday 8 December 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Vanaken 42 (P); 28/10/2020 GS Club Brugge - SS Lazio 1-1 Bruges Correa 14 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SS Lazio 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 Club Brugge 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 SS Lazio - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers De Pauw 6, Heylen 60, Leya Iseka 83; 07/12/2017 GS SV Zulte Waregem - SS Lazio 3-2 Waregem Caicedo 67, Lucas Leiva 76 Caicedo 18, Immobile 28/09/2017 GS SS Lazio - SV Zulte Waregem 2-0 Rome 90 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Claudio López 40, 06/03/2001 GS2 SS Lazio - RSC Anderlecht 2-1 Rome Baronio 77; Stoica 49 22/11/2000 GS2 RSC Anderlecht - SS Lazio 1-0 Brussels Radzinski 83 Club Brugge - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/11/2015 GS Club Brugge - SSC Napoli 0-1 Bruges Chiricheş 41 Callejón 5, 77, 17/09/2015 GS SSC Napoli - Club Brugge 5-0 Naples Mertens 19, 25, Hamšík 53 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/11/2014 GS Torino FC - Club Brugge 0-0 Turin 18/09/2014 GS Club Brugge - Torino FC 0-0 Bruges UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Mancini 55, Bovo 71; 23/02/2006 R3 AS Roma - Club Brugge Rome agg: 4-2 Verheyen 60 Portillo 61; 15/02/2006 R3 Club Brugge - AS Roma 1-2 Bruges Vanaudenaerde 44 (og), Perrotta 74 2 SS Lazio - Club Brugge Tuesday 8 December 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 22/11/2005 GS Juventus - Club Brugge 1-0 Turin Del Piero 80 Yulu-Matondo 85; 14/09/2005 GS Club Brugge - Juventus 1-2 Bruges Nedvěd 66, Trezeguet 75 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/11/2003 GS1 Club Brugge - AC Milan 0-1 Bruges Kaká 86 22/10/2003 GS1 AC Milan - Club Brugge 0-1 Milan Mendoza 33 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 07/11/1990 R2 Club Brugge - AC Milan Bruges Carbone 47 agg: 0-1 24/10/1990 R2 AC Milan - Club Brugge 0-0 Milan European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Bastijns 3, 12/04/1978 SF Club Brugge - Juventus Bruges agg 2-1 (aet) Vandereycken 116 ET 29/03/1978 SF Juventus - Club Brugge 1-0 Turin Bettega 86 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Bigon 31, Chiarugi 65; 17/03/1976 QF AC Milan - Club Brugge Milan agg: 2-3 Sanders 74 03/03/1976 QF Club Brugge - AC Milan 2-0 Bruges Le Fevre 5, Krieger 62 0-1 10/12/1975 R3 AS Roma - Club Brugge Rome Lambert 69 agg: 0-2 26/11/1975 R3 Club Brugge - AS Roma 1-0 Bruges Cools 42 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SS Lazio 2 2 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5 2 1 2 7 6 Club Brugge 10 3 2 5 9 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 19 5 4 10 12 19 3 SS Lazio - Club Brugge Tuesday 8 December 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Match background Lazio and Club Brugge face off in Rome with the unbeaten Italian side holding the edge in the race to join Borussia Dortmund in progressing from Group F. • Lazio have nine points, one behind already-qualified Borussia and two above Club Brugge, with whom they drew 1-1 in the reverse fixture. Another draw would therefore be enough for Lazio to join Dortmund in the round of 16; Club Brugge need a win to go through. With Zenit on one point, both sides are guaranteed to finish no lower than third. Lazio will top the group if they win and Dortmund do not take all three points at Zenit, or if they draw and the German side lose. • Both goals in Belgium on Matchday 2 came in the first half, Joaquín Correa giving the visitors a 14th-minute lead before Hans Vanaken levelled from the penalty spot three minutes before the break. Form guide Lazio • Lazio have drawn three of their five Group F games 1-1, all away from home, at Club Brugge, Zenit and, last time out, Dortmund. They have also won both home matches 3-1, defeating Dortmund on Matchday 1 and Zenit on Matchday 4. • The Rome club have not kept a clean sheet in their last 16 UEFA Champions League group games, including their last eight at home. • Matchday 2 marked Lazio's first draw in 19 European games, since they were held 2-2 by Dynamo Kyiv in Rome in the UEFA Europa League round of 16 first leg in March 2018. • This is Lazio's sixth UEFA Champions League campaign. On their most recent appearance, in 2007/08, they finished fourth in their section having picked up only five points from six games. Their previous appearances in the competition all came between 1999 and 2004. • Lazio's record in the initial group stage is now W14 D10 L11. • Despite this season's wins against Dortmund and Zenit, Lazio have won only three of their last 16 UEFA Champions League matches, group stage to final (D7 L6). • Before their first Group F game, Lazio's sole UEFA Champions League tie since 2007 had been a play-off defeat by Bayer Leverkusen in 2015/16 (1-0 h, 0-3 a). • The Rome club's most successful European Cup campaign came in 1999/2000, when they reached the quarter- finals before losing to Valencia (2-5 a, 1-0 h). • The Biancocelesti took part in the UEFA Europa League group stage in 2019/20, winning two of their fixtures, both at home, but losing the other four to finish third in the standings behind Celtic and CFR Cluj. • Although unbeaten in this season's competition, Simone Inzaghi's side – who qualified for the group stage by finishing fourth in Serie A in 2019/20 – have lost eight of their last 15 European matches (W4 D3). • The Italian side have won their last three home European matches, and seven of the last ten (L3). • This is only Lazio's sixth game against a club from Belgium. They have won both at home, beating Zulte Waregem 2-0 in the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League group stage with Felipe Caicedo and Ciro Immobile on target. Caicedo and Lucas Leiva both scored in a 3-2 away defeat in the return fixture. • Lazio were also victorious in their only previous UEFA Champions League fixture against Belgian visitors in Rome, beating Anderlecht 2-1 in the 2000/01 second group stage. Club Brugge • After kicking off Group F with a 2-1 win at Zenit, the Belgian club took only one point from their two subsequent home games, against Lazio and Dortmund (0-3). They then lost by the same scoreline in Germany, but a 3-0 home win against Zenit last time out has kept them in contention. • Club Brugge are in the group stage for the third year in a row, the first time they have achieved that feat; it is their eighth UEFA Champions League group appearance overall. They have never progressed to the knockout rounds. • In 2019/20, the Belgian side finished third behind Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid in Group A, picking up three points (D3 L3). It was the second year running they had finished third in their group. • They went on to lose to Manchester United in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 (1-1 h, 0-5 a). • The Matchday 5 win against Zenit was one of only three victories for Club Brugge in their last 23 fixtures in the UEFA Champions League proper (D7 L13), and the first of those three wins to come at home. That ended a run of 12 home 4 SS Lazio - Club Brugge Tuesday 8 December 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome matches in the group stage without a victory (D5 L7), since a 3-2 defeat of Rapid Wien in November 2005. • Club Brugge have lost only two of their last seven away matches in the UEFA Champions League group stage (W2 D3). • The Matchday 2 draw with Lazio ended Club Brugge's four-game scoreless run against Italian sides although, home and away, they are now without a win in their last ten matches (D3 L7), since a 1-0 triumph at AC Milan in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage.