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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stade Josy Barthel - Luxembourg Thursday 20 September 2018 21.00CET (21.00 local time) F91 Dudelange Group F - Matchday 1 AC Milan Last updated 15/12/2018 02:59CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Match officials 13 Legend 14 1 F91 Dudelange - AC Milan Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams F91 Dudelange - Record versus clubs from opponents' country F91 Dudelange have not played against a club from their opponents' country AC Milan - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-0 Chiarugi 4, 66, Benetti 27/09/1972 R1 AC Milan - FC Differdange 03 Milan agg: 7-1 33 Klein 90; Prati 4, 17, 06/09/1972 R1 FC Differdange 03 - AC Milan 1-4 Differdange Golin 19, Chiarugi 63 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-3 Combin 19, Sormani 24/09/1969 R1 FC Avenir Beggen - AC Milan Luxembourg agg: 0-8 73, Rivera 89 Prati 15, 63, Rivera 59 10/09/1969 R1 AC Milan - FC Avenir Beggen 5-0 Milan (P), Rognoni 61, Combin 79 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Rossano 7, 39, 0-6 19/09/1962 PR US Luxembourg - AC Milan Luxembourg Altafini 34, 42, 90, agg: 0-14 Pivatelli 58 Altafini 8, 11, 28, 44, 12/09/1962 PR AC Milan - US Luxembourg 8-0 Milan 67, Rivera 34, De Sales 43, 73 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA F91 Dudelange 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AC Milan 3 3 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 0 29 1 2 F91 Dudelange - AC Milan Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Match background David meets Goliath on matchday one of UEFA Europa League Group F as Dudelange celebrate becoming the first club from Luxembourg to participate in a European group stage by welcoming to the Stade Josy Barthel seven-time continental champions AC Milan. Previous meetings • The clubs have never met previously, with Dudelange yet to face Italian opposition. • Milan have played six matches against clubs from Luxembourg, winning them all comfortably, but this is their first visit to the Grand Duchy for 46 years. Form guide Dudelange • The premier force in Luxembourg since the turn of the millennium, Dudelange won their 14th national championship last season, completing a hat-trick of titles. They narrowly lost this season's UEFA Champions League first qualifying round tie against Hungary's Vidi but made historic amends by subsequently overcoming Drita, Legia Warszawa and, in the play-offs, CFR Cluj to reach the UEFA Europa League group stage. • Dudelange's previous best European performance came in 2012/13, when they reached the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round before falling to Hapoel Tel-Aviv in the UEFA Europa League play-offs (1-3 home, 0-4 away). • Since then Dudelange have lost only one of nine home games in Europe (W3 D5) and have scored twice in all three UEFA Europa League home fixtures this season (W2 D1). Milan • A sixth-placed finish in Serie A last term earned Milan an automatic UEFA Europa League group stage berth. They also reached the final of the Coppa Italia, where they were beaten 4-0 by champions Juventus. • The Rossoneri ended a three-season absence from Europe last season by playing 14 matches in the UEFA Europa League, going from the third qualifying round to the round of 16, where they lost home and away to Arsenal. They opened their group stage campaign with a 5-1 win at Austria Wien. Indeed, Milan have not lost a matchday one fixture since 1996/97, 2-3 at home to Porto, winning 12 and drawing three since then. • Milan's away record in Europe last season was W4 D1 L2. In the group stage it was W1 D1 L1. Links and trivia • Dudelange's experienced Serbian international defender Milan Biševac spent the second half of 2015/16 in Italy on loan at Lazio, featuring from start to finish in a 1-1 draw against the Rossoneri. Current Milan midfielder Lucas Biglia was his Lazio team-mate at the time and also played in that Serie A game. The coaches • The son of Klaus Toppmöller, the coach who led Bayer Leverkusen to the 2002 UEFA Champions League final, Dino had a lengthy career in Germany's lower leagues before ending it as a player-coach with Luxembourg side Hamm Benfica. Having steered the club to promotion, he joined Dudelange in 2016 and promptly won the Luxembourg double, adding a second league title in 2017/18 and then defying the odds to mastermind a landmark qualification for the UEFA Europa League group stage. • Gennaro Gattuso replaced Vincenzo Montella as Milan coach on 27 November 2017, earning promotion from the youth team. A legendary Rossoneri midfielder of grit and endeavour who played for the club from 1999 to 2012, racking up 468 appearances in all competitions, he won both Serie A and the UEFA Champions League twice and also lifted the FIFA World Cup with Italy in 2006. He led Milan to a sixth-place Serie A finish in 2017/18. 3 F91 Dudelange - AC Milan Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Team facts F91 Dudelange Formed: 1991 UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (latest triumph in brackets) League title: 14 (2018) Luxembourg Cup: 7 (2017) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless otherwise indicated) 2017/18: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2016/17: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2015/16: first qualifying round 2014/15: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2013/14: first qualifying round 2012/13: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2011/12: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2010/11: first qualifying round 2009/10: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2008/09: UEFA Champions League first qualifying round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-0: Dudelange v Tre Penne 03/07/12, UEFA Champions League first qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 0-4 twice, most recently v Tre Penne 10/07/12, UEFA Champions League first qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-6 three times, most recently v Rapid Wien 27/07/05, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-1 three times, most recently v Randers 01/07/10, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round first leg 5-0: Hajduk Split v Dudelange 12/08/99, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 2-0: Dudelange v CFR Cluj 23/08/18, play-off first leg • Biggest away win 2-3: CFR Cluj v Dudelange 30/08/18, play-off second leg 1-2: Legia v Dudelange 09/08/18, third qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: Dudelange v Hapoel Tel-Aviv 23/08/12, play-off first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Randers v Dudelange (see above) 5-0: Hajduk Split v Dudelange (see above) AC Milan Formed: 1899 Nicknames: Rossoneri (Red and Blacks), Diavolo (Devil) 4 F91 Dudelange - AC Milan Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Cup (7): (1958), 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990, (1993), 1994, (1995), 2003, (2005), 2007 • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (2): 1968, 1973, (1974) • UEFA Super Cup (5): (1973), 1989, 1990, (1993), 1994, 2003, 2007 • European/South American Cup (3): (1963), 1969, 1989, 1990, (1993), (1994), (2003) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 18 (2011) Italian Cup: 5 (2003) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: round of 16 2016/17: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2015/16: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2014/15: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2013/14: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2012/13: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2011/12: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2010/11: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2009/10: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2008/09: round of 32 Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 8-0: Milan v US Luxembourg 12/09/62, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round first leg • Biggest away win 0-6 twice, most recently v København 20/10/93, UEFA Champions League second round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: eight times, most recently v Arsenal 08/03/18, UEFA Europa League round of 16 first leg Heaviest away defeat 6-0: Ajax v Milan 16/01/74, 1973 UEFA Super Cup final second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 6-0: Milan v Shkëndija 17/08/17, play-offs first leg • Biggest away win 1-5: Austria Wien v Milan 14/09/17, group stage • Heaviest home defeat 0-2 twice, most recently v Arsenal (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Borussia Dortmund v Milan 04/04/02, semi-final first leg 5 F91 Dudelange - AC Milan Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Squad list F91 Dudelange Current season All-time UCL QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.