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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2021/22 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadionul Sheriff - Tiraspol Tuesday 17 August 2021 21.00CET (22.00 local time) FC Sheriff Tiraspol Play-off, First leg GNK Dinamo Zagreb Last updated 29/09/2021 17:10CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 5 Match officials 7 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Team facts 13 Legend 15 1 FC Sheriff Tiraspol - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadionul Sheriff, Tiraspol Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Sheriff Tiraspol - GNK 0-3 Fernandes 10, 07/08/2013 QR3 Tiraspol Dinamo Zagreb agg: 0-4 Soudani 27, Čop 61 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Sheriff 30/07/2013 QR3 1-0 Zagreb Rukavina 89 Tiraspol UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Sheriff 4-0 Vida 16, Bećiraj 34, 08/08/2012 QR3 Zagreb Tiraspol agg: 5-0 Čop 78, Ibáñez 87 FC Sheriff Tiraspol - GNK 01/08/2012 QR3 0-1 Tiraspol Bećiraj 14 Dinamo Zagreb UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Sheriff Sammir 55 (P); 04/08/2010 QR3 agg: 2-2 (aet, 5- Zagreb Tiraspol Volkov 16 6 pens) FC Sheriff Tiraspol - GNK Dinamo 28/07/2010 QR3 1-1 Tiraspol Erokhin 35; Sammir 3 Zagreb Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Sheriff Tiraspol 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 6 0 2 4 2 11 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3 2 1 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 2 0 11 2 FC Sheriff Tiraspol - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ligger 29 (og), 0-3 28/08/2014 PO FC Sheriff Tiraspol - HNK Rijeka Tiraspol Kramarić 44, Moisés agg: 0-4 61 21/08/2014 PO HNK Rijeka - FC Sheriff Tiraspol 1-0 Rijeka Leovac 85 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Record versus clubs from opponents' country GNK Dinamo Zagreb 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 FC Sheriff Tiraspol 4 0 1 3 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 8 0 2 6 2 15 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3 2 1 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 2 0 11 2 2 FC Sheriff Tiraspol - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadionul Sheriff, Tiraspol Match background Sheriff are aiming for a slice of Moldovan history by becoming their country's first representatives in the UEFA Champions League group stage, although to do so they will have to get past a Dinamo Zagreb side they have never beaten in regulation time. • While Sheriff are hoping to make their group stage debut, Dinamo have been regulars in the competition and are looking to return having missed out in 2020/21. Previous meetings • Dinamo have won four of the six games between the clubs, drawing the other two, and scored 11 goals to Sheriff's two. • All three previous ties came in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round in a four-season stretch between 2010 and 2013. • Sheriff did, however, come out on top in their first tie, in 2010/11, winning 6-5 on penalties in Zagreb after two 1-1 draws. • The Croatian club found the going considerably easier when the sides met again in 2012/13, winning 1-0 away and 4-0 at home with substitute Duje Čop scoring Dinamo's third goal in Zagreb. Current club captain Arijan Ademi also featured for Dinamo while Henrique Luvannor was in Sheriff's team for the second leg. • Čop was also on target in Dinamo's 3-0 second-leg win in Tiraspol in 2013/14, completing a 4-0 aggregate victory. Ademi also started both games, as did Luvannor for Sheriff. Form guide Sheriff • Should Sheriff, domestic champions for the 19th time – and sixth in succession – in 2020/21, overcome Dinamo, Moldova would become the 34th country to feature in the group stage and the first newcomers since Azerbaijan, with Qarabağ, in 2017/18. • Sheriff are also the only Moldovan side to reach the UEFA Europa League group stage having appeared in 2009/10, 2010/11, 2013/14 and 2017/18. • The Tiraspol club are unbeaten in their six UEFA Champions League qualifying matches so far this season, winning both legs against both Teuta of Albania in the first qualifying round (4-0 a, 1-0 h) and Alashkert of Armenia in the second (1-0 a, 3-1 h). They were held 1-1 at Serbian side Crvena zvezda – the 1991 European champions – in the first leg of their third qualifying round tie, but Danilo Arboleda's goal at the end of the first half at the Sheriff Stadion proved enough to send the home side through. • This is Sheriff's third UEFA Champions League play-off. They lost to Olympiacos in 2009/10 (0-2 h, 0-1 a) and Basel in 2010/11 (0-1 a, 0-3 h), so have yet to score or avoid defeat at this stage of the competition. • Sheriff's record in UEFA Europa League play-offs is W2 L3. • Sheriff have won their last three home European matches and are unbeaten in five (W4 D1), since a 2-1 loss to AIK of Sweden in the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. • Sheriff's only other games against Croatian opposition came in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League play-offs, a 4-0 aggregate defeat by Rijeka (0-1 a, 0-3 h) with Marin Leovac, now of Dinamo, on target in the second leg. Dinamo Zagreb • Dinamo have made seven appearances in the UEFA Champions League group stage, including five in the last ten seasons. • Champions of Croatia for the fourth season in a row in 2020/21 – when they also completed the domestic double – and the 15th time in 16 seasons, Dinamo are aiming to reach the group stage for the first time since 2019/20, their sole appearance in the last four campaigns. • The Zagreb club lost 2-1 at Ferencváros in their one-off tie in last season's third qualifying round, but went on to impress in the UEFA Europa League. Dinamo finished first in their group ahead of Wolfsberg, CSKA Moskva and Feyenoord – conceding only one goal to equal the competition record – before beating Krasnodar in the round of 32 (3-2 a, 1-0 h) and Tottenham in the round of 16 (0-2 a, 3-0 h aet), the latter secured by Mislav Oršić's memorable hat- trick. Their campaign was finally ended in the quarter-finals by Villarreal, the eventual champions winning 1-0 in Croatia and 2-1 in Spain. • Dinamo are unbeaten in their six fixtures in the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League, beating Iceland's Valur in the first qualifying round (3-2 h, 2-0 a), Omonoia of Cyprus in the second qualifying round (2-0 h, 1-0 a) and Polish side 3 FC Sheriff Tiraspol - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadionul Sheriff, Tiraspol Legia Warszawa in the third (1-1 a, 1-0 h). • Dinamo have won six of their last eight European away matches, losing the other two. • The Croatian club have finished fourth in their UEFA Champions League section in six of their seven group campaigns, the exception the first, in 1998/99 when they came second behind Olympiacos but ahead of Porto and Ajax – although only Olympiacos progressed to the quarter-finals. • Dinamo have won only five of their 42 matches in the UEFA Champions League group stage (D7 L30) but did pick up five points on their last appearance in 2019/20 (W1 D2 L3), a campaign that included a 4-0 victory at home to Atalanta. • Their three ties with Sheriff are Dinamo's only matches against a Moldovan club. Links and trivia • Have played in Croatia: Nadrey Dago (Sesvete 2017–19, Osijek II 2019–20, Dugopolje 2020 loan) Stjepan Radeljić (Osijek 2018–21) • Sheriff have had three Croatian coaches: Zoran Zekić (2014/15 and 2019/20), Zoran Vulić (2015/16) and Goran Sablić (2018/19). 4 FC Sheriff Tiraspol - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadionul Sheriff, Tiraspol Squad list FC Sheriff Tiraspol 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 Dumitru Celeadnic MDA 23/04/1992 29 - - - - - 1 - - - 6 - 26 Dušan Marković SRB 03/04/1998 23 - - - - - 1 - - - - - 30 Giorgos Athanasiadis GRE 07/04/1993 28 - 6 - - - 1 - - - 17 - 33 Serghei Paşcenco MDA 18/12/1982 38 - - - - - - - - - 19 - Defenders 2 Danilo Arboleda COL 16/05/1995 26 - 6 1 - - 3 1 - - 6 1 3 Charles Petro MWI 08/02/2001 20 - 1 - - - 2 - - - 4 - 6 Stjepan Radeljić CRO 05/09/1997 23 - 2 - - - 3 1 - - 4 - 13 Fernando Costanza ITA 29/11/1998 22 - 1 - - - 2 - - - 1 - 15 Cristiano BRA 29/08/1993 27 * 6 - - - 1 - - - 35 - 16 Keston Julien TRI 26/10/1998 22 * 6 - - - 2 - - - 15 - 19 Serafim Cojocari MDA 07/01/2001 20 - - - - - 1 - - - - - 55 Gustavo Dulanto PER 09/05/1995 26 - 6 1 - - - - - - 6 1 Midfielders 8 Alexandr Belousov MDA 14/05/1998 23 - 1 - - - 3 - - - 2 - 9 Adama Traore MLI 05/06/1995 26 - 6 2 - - 1 - - - 6 2 10 Frank Castañeda COL 17/07/1994 27 S 6 2 - - 3 - - - 9 3 21 Edmund Addo GHA 17/05/2000 21 - 4 - - - - - - - 4 - 22 Dimitris Kolovos GRE 27/04/1993 28 - 2 - - - 1 - - - 3 - 31 Sébastien Thill LUX 29/12/1993 27 - 6 1 - - 3 1 - - 23 3 98 Maxim Cojocaru MDA 13/01/1998 23 - - - - - 1 - - - 6 - Forwards 11 Lovro Bizjak SVN 12/11/1993 27 - 6 - - - 3 2 - - 18 3 70 Henrique Luvannor MDA 19/05/1990 31 - 5 4 - - 2 1 - - 25 6 99 Momo Yansane GUI 29/07/1997 24 - 5 - - - 2 3 - - 5 - Coach - Iurii Vernydub UKR 22/01/1966 55 - 6 - - - - - - - 33 - 5 FC Sheriff Tiraspol - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadionul Sheriff, Tiraspol GNK Dinamo Zagreb Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No.