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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Eden Arena - Prague Thursday 18 February 2021 18.55CET (18.55 local time) SK Slavia Praha Round of 32, First leg Leicester City FC Last updated 27/08/2021 23:20CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 SK Slavia Praha - Leicester City FC Thursday 18 February 2021 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Eden Arena, Prague Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams SK Slavia Praha - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Pedro Rodríguez 5, 4-3 27, Deli 10 (og), 18/04/2019 QF Chelsea FC - SK Slavia Praha London agg: 5-3 Giroud 17; Souček 26, Ševčík 51, 55 11/04/2019 QF SK Slavia Praha - Chelsea FC 0-1 Prague Alonso 86 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/2008 GS SK Slavia Praha - Aston Villa FC 0-1 Prague Sidwell 26 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - SK Slavia 1-1 21/02/2008 R3 London O'Hara 7; Krajčík 50 Praha agg: 3-2 SK Slavia Praha - Tottenham Střihavka 69; 14/02/2008 R3 1-2 Prague Hotspur Berbatov 4, Keane 30 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/11/2007 GS SK Slavia Praha - Arsenal FC 0-0 Prague Fàbregas 5, 58, Hubáček 24 (og), 23/10/2007 GS Arsenal FC - SK Slavia Praha 7-0 London Walcott 41, 55, Hleb 51, Bendtner 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - SK Slavia 1-0 28/09/2006 R1 London Keane 79 Praha agg: 2-0 SK Slavia Praha - Tottenham 14/09/2006 R1 0-1 Prague Jenas 37 Hotspur UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Ulich 51, 78 (P); 23/03/2000 QF SK Slavia Praha - Leeds United Prague agg: 2-4 Kewell 45+2 Wilcox 39, Kewell 54, 16/03/2000 QF Leeds United - SK Slavia Praha 3-0 Leeds Bowyer 59 Leicester City FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Leicester City FC have not played against a club from their opponents' country 2 SK Slavia Praha - Leicester City FC Thursday 18 February 2021 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Eden Arena, Prague Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SK Slavia Praha 6 1 1 4 5 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 11 1 2 8 7 22 Leicester City FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 SK Slavia Praha - Leicester City FC Thursday 18 February 2021 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Eden Arena, Prague Match background Leicester City's debut campaign in the UEFA Europa League continues in the round of 32 with a visit to Czech champions Slavia Praha. • Slavia made up for a UEFA Champions League play-off defeat by convincingly coming through a UEFA Europa League section headed by Bayer Leverkusen, while competition novices Leicester made light work of Group G, securing their knockout phase berth with two matches to spare and finishing top on head-to-head above Braga with 13 points. Previous meetings • This is Leicester's first UEFA encounter with a team from the Czech Republic. • Slavia have won just one of their 11 UEFA matches against English opposition (D2 L8), losing all four of their two- legged knockout ties, the most recent against Chelsea in the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League quarter-final, when Jindřich Trpišovský's team were beaten both in Prague (0-1) and London (3-4), midfielder Petr Ševčík scoring a double in the second leg at Stamford Bridge. • Slavia have lost their last three home games against English visitors, all by a one-goal margin, and have scored just one goal in the last five. Their heaviest European defeat also came against Premier League opposition – a 7-0 loss at Arsenal in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League group stage. Form guide Slavia • Champions of the Czech Republic for the third time in four years last season, Slavia missed out on a second successive UEFA Champions League group stage adventure this term when, led again by coach Trpišovský, they were defeated by Midtjylland in the play-offs (0-0 h, 1-4 a). • Fourth in their UEFA Champions League section last season, behind Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Internazionale, Slavia finished second in their UEFA Europa League group this term, a run of four successive wins from Matchday 2 to Matchday 5 enabling them to finish runners-up to Leverkusen – who closed the section by beating them 4-0 in Germany – ahead of Hapoel Beer-Sheva and Nice. • This is the second time in four attempts that Slavia have made it through the group stage to the knockout phase. Their one previous round of 32 tie proved successful as they followed up a goalless draw against Genk with a resounding 4-1 second-leg win in Belgium. They then pulled off a momentous round of 16 win against competition specialists Sevilla (2-2 a, 4-3 h aet) before going out to Chelsea. • Slavia took maximum points from their home games in Group C during the autumn – against Leverkusen (1-0), Nice (3-2) and Hapoel (3-0) – but have nevertheless won only four of their last nine European home fixtures, losing the same number, including all three in last season's UEFA Champions League group stage. Leicester • Leicester finished fifth in the 2019/20 Premier League to qualify for a first appearance in the UEFA Europa League and direct entry to the group stage. • This is only the club's fifth European campaign. Their most successful was the most recent, in 2016/17, when, as champions of England, they made their debut appearance in the UEFA Champions League, topped their group and went on to reach the quarter-finals – the best performance by any English club in the competition that season – where they lost to Atlético de Madrid. • They are now playing springtime European football for only the second time, having breezed through their UEFA Europa League group in the autumn, claiming early qualification with wins in their first three matches – against Zorya Luhansk (3-0 h), AEK Athens (2-1 a) and Braga (4-0 h) – and a last-gasp 3-3 draw in Portugal. Despite a first defeat, 0-1 at Zorya, on Matchday 5, they closed their campaign with a third successive home win, 2-0 against AEK, to ensure progress as group winners. • Leicester's win in Athens on Matchday 2 ended a run of three successive European away defeats. They have won only three of their 12 fixtures in UEFA competition outside England (D2 L7), the most impressive of them 3-0 at Club Brugge on their UEFA Champions League debut four seasons ago. UEFA Europa League squad changes • Slavia In: Alexander Bah (SonderyskE), Simon Deli (Club Brugge, loan), Jakub Hromada Out: Petar Musa (Union Berlin, loan), Ondřej Karafiát (Liberec, loan), Tomáš Malinský (Mladá Boleslav, loan) • Leicester In: Daniel Amartey 4 SK Slavia Praha - Leicester City FC Thursday 18 February 2021 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Eden Arena, Prague Out: Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (Luton, loan), Wes Morgan Links and trivia • Slavia's Nicolae Stanciu and Leicester's Youri Tielemans were Belgian title winners together at Anderlecht in 2016/17. • Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has lost all four of his previous UEFA Europa League round of 32 ties – two in charge of Liverpool (against Zenit in 2012/13 and Beşiktaş in 2014/15) and two with Celtic (against Zenit again in 2017/18 and Valencia in 2018/19). • Rodgers was the manager of Celtic when they played a pre-season friendly at the Eden Arena against Slavia on 4 July 2017; the game ended 0-0. • Slavia players Jan Bořil and Lukáš Masopust were in the Czech Republic side that defeated England 2-1 at the Eden Arena in a UEFA EURO 2020 qualifier on 11 October 2019. • Slavia's Peter Olayinka is a Nigeria team-mate of Leicester's Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho. • Leicester are the only one of the 48 clubs who entered this season's group stage having never played a match in the UEFA Europa League, qualifying included. One of six group stage debutants this term, they are now one of five clubs appearing in the knockout phase of the competition for the first time, alongside Antwerp, Granada, Hoffenheim and Wolfsberg. 5 SK Slavia Praha - Leicester City FC Thursday 18 February 2021 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Eden Arena, Prague Team facts SK Slavia Praha Formed: 1892 Nickname: Sešívaní (The Sewn-Ups) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 20 (2020) National cup: 5 (2019) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2019/20: UEFA Champions League group stage 2018/19: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2017/18: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2016/17: play-offs 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 Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-1 three times, most recently v Partizan 14/11/02, UEFA Cup second round second leg 4-0 twice, most recently v PAOK 12/12/02, UEFA Cup third round second leg • Biggest away win 0-4: Cork City v Slavia 23/08/94, UEFA Cup preliminary round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Slavia v LOSC Lille 01/10/09, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 7-0: Arsenal v Slavia 23/10/07, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home