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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 3-0) Stadion Salzburg - Salzburg Thursday 27 February 2014 FC Salzburg 19.00CET (19.00 local time) AFC Ajax Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 04/08/2016 15:53CET 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 FC Salzburg - AFC Ajax Thursday 27 February 2014 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Jonatan Soriano 14 20/02/2014 R32 AFC Ajax - FC Salzburg 0-3 Amsterdam (P), 35, Mané 21 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Litmanen 85; Kocijan 02/11/1994 GS AFC Ajax - FC Salzburg 1-1 Amsterdam 62 19/10/1994 GS FC Salzburg - AFC Ajax 0-0 Vienna UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Pettersson 25, 78, 3-1 30/09/1992 R1 AFC Ajax - FC Salzburg Amsterdam Bergkamp 48; agg: 6-1 Reisinger 56 Davids 53, Overmars 16/09/1992 R1 FC Salzburg - AFC Ajax 0-3 Salzburg 65, Kreek 80 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Salzburg 2 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 5 7 AFC Ajax 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 1 7 5 FC Salzburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Koejoe 13, Sabitzer 3-1 05/08/1998 SF FC Salzburg - SC Fortuna Sittard Salzburg 62, Glieder 76 (P); agg: 4-3 Burke 52 SC Fortuna Sittard - FC Dirkx 15, Hamming 29/07/1998 SF 2-1 Sittard Salzburg 45; Glieder 20 Szewczyk 2, Glieder 3-1 25/07/1998 R3 FC Salzburg - FC Twente Salzburg 6, Hütter 58; Ten Caat agg: 5-3 49 Ten Caat 27, Bosman 18/07/1998 R3 FC Twente - FC Salzburg 2-2 Enschede 66; Laessig 12, 68 AFC Ajax - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Huntelaar 36, 69, 02/11/2006 GS AFC Ajax - FK Austria Wien 3-0 Amsterdam Manucharyan 65 2 FC Salzburg - AFC Ajax Thursday 27 February 2014 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ibrahimović 15, 2-1 27/08/2003 QR3 AFC Ajax - Grazer AK Amsterdam Galásek 103 ET (P); agg: 3-2 sg Kollmann 40 Pogatetz 56; Sneijder 12/08/2003 QR3 Grazer AK - AFC Ajax 1-1 Graz 79 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-3 27/09/1989 R1 AFC Ajax - FK Austria Wien Amsterdam Match forfeited f 14/09/1989 R1 FK Austria Wien - AFC Ajax 1-0 Vienna Degeorgi 18 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Salzburg 4 2 1 1 5 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 9 3 3 3 14 13 AFC Ajax 6 3 1 2 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 10 4 3 3 13 11 3 FC Salzburg - AFC Ajax Thursday 27 February 2014 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg Match background FC Salzburg have one foot in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 as AFC Ajax come to Austria still smarting from a 3-0 first-leg defeat in Amsterdam. Previous meetings • In the first leg Jonatan Soriano (14, 35) struck either side of a Mané effort (21) as Ajax matched their worst previous home defeat in the competition, while Salzburg recorded their fifth three-goal win on the road in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League. • It was Salzburg's first win against Ajax at the fifth attempt, with their record in those ties now reading W1 D2 L2 (W0 D1 L1 in Austria). Current Ajax coach Frank de Boer featured in all five matches, the first four as a player. • The teams first met in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup first round, Louis van Gaal's Ajax beating Otto Barić's Salzburg 3-0 in Austria and 3-1 in Amsterdam. • The teams in Salzburg on 16 September 1992 were: Salzburg: Ilsanker, Lainer (Lipa 46), Weber, Garger, Ergović (Reisinger 65), Reinmayr, Jurčević, Willfurth, Sabitzer, Feiersinger, Stadler. Ajax: Menzo, Alflen, Blind, Jonk, F de Boer, Vink, Overmars, Kreek, Pettersson, Bergkamp, Roy (Davids 30). • The same coaches were in charge when the sides drew 0-0 in Salzburg and 1-1 in Amsterdam in the group stage of the 1994/95 UEFA Champions League, which Ajax went on to win. • The teams for the Salzburg encounter on 2 November 1994 were: Salzburg: Konrad, Lainer, Kocijan (Hassenhüttl 78), Mladenović (Hütter 75), Fürstaller, Winklhofer, Jurčević, Artner, Pfeifenberger, Feiersinger, Hiden. Ajax: Van der Sar, Reiziger, Blind, Rijkaard, F de Boer, R de Boer, Overmars (Kreek 46), Seedorf, Kluivert (Kanu 67), Litmanen, Van Vossen. Match background • Ajax have played ten games against Austrian sides with the record W4 D3 L3 (W1 D2 L1 in Austria). • Salzburg's nine encounters with Dutch clubs have ended W3 D3 L3 (W2 D1 L1 at home). • Ajax are in the round of 32 for the sixth successive season. Of those five previous ties they won two and lost three, including the most recent two – against Manchester United FC in 2011/12 and FC Steaua Bucureşti last season. • Salzburg and Tottenham Hotspur FC came through this season's group stage with 100% records. Only three other sides have won all six of their group matches since the advent of the UEFA Europa League: Salzburg (2009/10), FC Zenit (2010/11) and RSC Anderlecht (2011/12). • Salzburg are on a run of four straight European home wins, and are unbeaten in their last six UEFA fixtures at the Stadion Salzburg (W5 D1). • Ajax are without a win in seven European away fixtures (D2 L5) since a 2-1 victory at Manchester United in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg. Team facts • No side has overturned a three-goal deficit to win a UEFA Europa League tie, though FC Internazionale Milano came close last year, taking Tottenham Hotspur FC to extra time after overturning a 3-0 deficit before losing on away goals (4-1). • Two goals against Ajax put Soriano back on top of this season's UEFA Europa League scorers rankings with six. • Ajax are one of nine former UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League winners, and nine domestic champions, in the round of 32. • Salzburg are the top scorers in this season's competition with 18 goals, three more than ACF Fiorentina, Tottenham, Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Rubin Kazan. They have also had more attempts on (51) and off target (46) than any other club. • Salzburg's Hungarian goalkeeper Péter Gulácsi and Ajax's Danish defender Christian Poulsen were team-mates at Liverpool FC from 2011-12, though Gulácsi spent much of that period out on loan and never made a senior appearance for the Reds. • Poulsen is 34 the day after the game. • The UEFA Europa League's 2,500th goal was registered by Salzburg's Senegal midfielder Sadio Mané as he rounded off the scoring in a 3-0 home win against Esbjerg fB on matchday six. 4 FC Salzburg - AFC Ajax Thursday 27 February 2014 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg Coach information • Salzburg coach Roger Schmidt agreed a two-year contract extension in December, binding him to the club until 2016. A lower-league midfielder in his native Germany, he combined football with work as an apprentice toolmaker before studying mechanical engineering. He moved into coaching with Delbrücker SC, SC Preussen Münster and SC Paderborn 07 before signing for Salzburg in 2012. • Since taking charge in December 2010, Frank de Boer has led Ajax to three consecutive titles in the Netherlands. He and twin brother Ronald came through the ranks at the club, where Frank won five league titles as well as the 1991/92 UEFA Cup and 1994/95 UEFA Champions League. The 112-times capped defender lifted another domestic title in Spain with FC Barcelona, later playing for Rangers FC and Galatasaray AŞ before moving into coaching. • De Boer celebrates his 44th birthday on 15 May 2014, the day after this season's UEFA Europa League final. • De Boer is one of three coaches in the round of 32 who have won this competition as players, along with PAOK FC's Huub Stevens (PSV Eindhoven, 1978) and Juventus's Antonio Conte (Juventus, 1993). Shoot-out record • Salzburg won their only previous UEFA competition penalty shoot-out: won 5-4 (away) v Eintracht Frankurt, 1993/94 UEFA Cup quarter-finals • Ajax's record in six UEFA shoot-outs is W1 L5: lost 4-2 (away) v FC Steaua Bucureşti, 2012/13 UEFA Europa League round of 32 lost 4-2 (neutral) v Juventus, 1995/96 UEFA Champions League final won 4-3 (neutral) v Grêmio FBPA, 1995 European/South American Cup lost 4-2 (away) v CU Bohemians Praha, 1984/85 UEFA Cup second roundl lost 3-0 (away) v Juventus, 1977/78 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals lost 5-3 (away) v PFC Levski Sofia, 1974/75 UEFA Cup third round Round of 16 • The winners of this tie will meet Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC or FC Basel 1893 in the round of 16, with the second leg at home.