Uefa Europa League - 2019/20 Season Match Press Kits
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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estádio José Alvalade - Lisbon Thursday 3 October 2019 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Sporting Clube de LASK Portugal Group D - Matchday 2 Last updated 06/08/2020 18:06CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 14 Legend 15 1 Sporting Clube de Portugal - LASK Thursday 3 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Sporting Clube de Portugal - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers SK Rapid Wien - Sporting Clube 0-0 30/09/2004 R1 Vienna de Portugal agg: 0-2 Sporting Clube de Portugal - SK 16/09/2004 R1 2-0 Lisbon Tinga 60, Liedson 83 Rapid Wien UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kühbauer 25, Stumpf SK Rapid Wien - Sporting Clube 4-0 02/11/1995 R2 Vienna 90+2, 105 ET, de Portugal agg 4-2 (aet) Jancker 110 ET Sporting Clube de Portugal - SK 19/10/1995 R2 2-0 Lisbon Naybet 14, Alves 25 Rapid Wien UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Salzburg - Sporting Clube de 3-0 Lainer 48, Hütter 89, 07/12/1993 R3 Salzburg Portugal agg 3-2 (aet) Amerhauser 112 ET Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC Chtcherbakov 24, 24/11/1993 R3 2-0 Lisbon Salzburg Cadete 63 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Marko 15, Roscher FC Wacker Innsbruck - Sporting 4-2 53, Pezzey 69, 30/09/1987 R1 Innsbruck Clube de Portugal agg: 4-6 Linzmaier 85; Sealy 56, Bacinello 67 Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC Sealy 6, 41, Bacinello 15/09/1987 R1 4-0 Lisbon Wacker Innsbruck 23 (P), 82 LASK - Record versus clubs from opponents' country LASK have not played against a club from their opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Sporting Clube de Portugal 4 4 0 0 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 8 4 1 3 12 11 LASK 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Sporting Clube de Portugal - LASK Thursday 3 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Match background Having got their record-breaking ninth UEFA Europa League campaign off to a false start, Sporting CP return to Lisbon hoping to rediscover their home form of old against a LASK side that kicked off their maiden European group adventure with a win. • Goals from Bruno Fernandes and Pedro Mendes were not enough to spare Sporting a 3-2 defeat at PSV Eindhoven on matchday one, whereas a single goal in first-half added time from Australian midfielder James Holland proved sufficient to give LASK all three points at home to Norwegian champions Rosenborg. Previous meetings • LASK have never previously faced a Portuguese club in UEFA competition. • Sporting have entertained Austrian visitors four times in the past and been victorious on each occasion, scoring ten goals and conceding none. The most recent of those wins came against Rapid Wien (2-0) in the first round of the 2004/05 UEFA Cup – a competition in which the Lisbon club went on to reach the final, which they lost 1-3 to CSKA Moskva in their home stadium. Form guide Sporting • Sporting qualified automatically for the 2019/20 group stage by winning last season's Portuguese Cup, a penalty shoot-out win in the final against Porto adding to a third-placed finish in the Liga. They also reached the UEFA Europa League round of 32, where they were knocked out by Villarreal. • This is Sporting's ninth appearance in the UEFA Europa League proper – a competition record – and their seventh in the group stage, five of their previous six having brought further progress into the knockout phase. The Lisbon side's best performance came in 2011/12, when they reached the semi-finals. • Sporting went a record 20 home games unbeaten in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final, in their first five seasons of participation (W13 D7) but have now lost four of the last 11, including a pair of 0-1 defeats last season to Arsenal and Villarreal. Their overall home record in the group stage is W12 D4 L2. LASK • Runners-up to Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga last season, LASK also took part in UEFA competition for the first time since 2000. Having defeated Lillestrøm in the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round, they were then eliminated by Beşiktaş on away goals (0-1 a, 2-1 h). • LASK entered Europe this season in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, where they recorded a 5-2 aggregate victory against Switzerland's Basel (2-1 a, 3- h) but could not repeat the trick in the play-offs, losing home (0-1) and away (1-2) to Club Brugge and therefore entering the UEFA Europa League group stage instead. • The Linz club have lost five of their last eight European away games (W2 D1). Links and trivia • One more win will give Sporting 28 in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final, matching the tally of Lisbon rivals – and two-time runners-up – Benfica. They also need four more goals to reach 100 in the competition proper – a tally so far attained by only five other clubs. • LASK are one of six clubs making their debut this season in the UEFA Europa League group stage, along with Espanyol, Wolves, Olexandriya, Ferencváros and fellow Austrians Wolfsberg. The coaches • Silas was appointed as Sporting coach on 27 September, replacing interim boss Leonel Pontes. The Lisbon-born former midfielder, who signed a contract until the end of the season, was available after being dismissed earlier in the month by Belenenses, where he had taken on his first coaching post in January 2018. A graduate of Sporting's academy, his playing career took him on a long and winding journey that included stops at União Leiria (where he was coached by José Mourinho), Belenenses (where he worked under Jorge Jesus) and in Spain, England, Cyprus and India before he decided to hang up his boots in 2017 aged 40. • A former central defender who started out with home-town club Strasbourg, Valérien Ismaël spent the latter part of his career in Germany, winning the domestic double with both Werder Bremen and Bayern München. His final club, Hannover, gave him his first coaching opportunity in charge of the reserves, and he occupied a similar role at Wolfsburg, which was punctuated by a brief spell as head coach at Nürnberg. After a short spell as the main man at Wolfsburg, from October 2016 to February 2017, he resurfaced in Austria as the new boss of LASK in May 2019. 3 Sporting Clube de Portugal - LASK Thursday 3 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Team facts Sporting Clube de Portugal Formed: 1906 Nickname: Leões (Lions) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup: (2005) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1964 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 18 (2002) Portuguese Cup: 17 (2019) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: round of 32 2017/18: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2016/17: UEFA Champions League group stage 2015/16: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2014/15: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: group stage 2011/12: semi-finals 2010/11: round of 32 2009/10: round of 16 (having transferred from the UEFA Champions League play-offs) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 16-1: Sporting CP v APOEL 13/11/63, European Cup Winners' Cup second round first leg • Biggest away win 0-9: ÍA Akranes v Sporting CP 17/09/86, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Sporting CP v Bayern München 25/02/09, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg • Heaviest away defeat 7-1: Bayern München v Sporting CP 10/03/09, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 7-0: Sporting CP v Politehnica Timisoara 24/10/90, second round first leg • Biggest away win 0-9: ÍA Akranes v Sporting CP (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Sporting CP v Gençlerbirligi 27/11/03, second round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: Celtic v Sporting CP 02/11/83, second round second leg LASK Linz Formed: 1908 Nickname: Die Athletiker aus Linz, Die Laskler UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) 4 Sporting Clube de Portugal - LASK Thursday 3 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon League title: 1 (1965) Austrian Cup: 1 (1965) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: third qualifying round 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 4-0: LASK v Lillestrøm 26/07/18, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 0-4: B68 Toftir v LASK 23/06/96, UEFA Intertoto Cup group stage • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: LASK v Górnik Zabrze 15/09/65, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round first leg • Heaviest away