UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Yeni 4 Eylül Stadyumu - Sivas Thursday 5 November 2020 18.55CET (20.55 local time) Group I - Matchday 3 Qarabağ FK Last updated 03/11/2020 20:27CET

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1 Sivasspor - Qarabağ FK Thursday 5 November 2020 - 18.55CET (20.55 local time) Match press kit Yeni 4 Eylül Stadyumu, Sivas

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Sivasspor and Qarabağ both have their work cut out to qualify from UEFA Europa League Group I after defeats in their opening two fixtures. • The Turkish side's maiden UEFA Europa League group campaign started with a valiant 5-3 defeat at Villarreal but was followed by a 2-1 home loss to Maccabi Tel-Aviv despite the lead given to them by 's second goal in as many games. Qarabağ, who lost 1-0 to Maccabi on Matchday 1, also took the lead on Matchday 2 through Kwabwena Owusu, only to concede three times in the last ten minutes and go down 3-1 to Villarreal in their temporary home of Istanbul. Previous meetings • This is Sivasspor's first UEFA encounter against a team from Azerbaijan and Qarabağ's first against opposition from . Form guide Sivasspor • Sivasspor finished fourth in the 2019/20 Turkish Süper Lig to qualify directly for the UEFA Europa League group stage, where they are making their debut, becoming the ninth different club from Turkey to play in the competition proper. • This is only Sivasspor's third experience of European competition. UEFA Intertoto Cup participants in 2008, where they beat Grbalj and lost to Braga, they qualified for the UEFA Champions League in 2009/10 as Süper Lig runners- up but lost their third qualifying round tie to Anderlecht (0-5 a, 3-1 h) before suffering the same fate in the UEFA Europa League play-offs against Shakhtar Donetsk (0-3 h, 0-2 a). • The Turkish club have won two and lost three of their five European home games, with defeats in each of the last two. Qarabağ • Qarabağ were crowned champions of Azerbaijan for the seventh season running in 2019/20 – and eighth overall – having held an eight-point lead over second-placed Neftçi when the Premyer Liqa was abandoned in the early spring. Their sixth successive European group campaign, all under long-serving coach Gurban Gurbanov, ended, like all the others, in the autumn when they finished third in UEFA Europa League Group A behind Sevilla and APOEL. • This season, as in 2019/20, Qarabağ began their European journey in the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round, but were eliminated two rounds later by Norwegian champions Molde in a penalty shoot-out after a goalless draw in Baku. They made amends by beating Legia Warszawa 3-0 away in the UEFA Europa League play-off to reach the group stage for the sixth time. They have yet to finish in the top two. • Qarabağ's record away from home in the UEFA Europa League group stage is W4 D1 L11, two of those wins having come in their last six matches – 1-0 at Vorskla Poltava in 2018/19 and 4-1 at Dudelange last season. Links and trivia • Qarabağ's Spanish midfielder Jaime Romero had a short spell on loan with Turkish club and played in a 3- 2 Süper Lig defeat by Sivasspor, then as now coached by Rıza Çalımbay, on 30 March 2013. • Haiti international Donald Guerrier joined Qarabağ for the first time in 2017 after a single season in the Turkish top flight with , scoring four goals in 24 league appearances. • Sivasspor are one of six clubs making their UEFA Europa League group stage debut in 2020/21, the others being CSKA-Sofia (Group A), Granada and Omonoia (both E), Leicester City (G) and Royal Antwerp (J).

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