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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Celtic Park - Glasgow Thursday 24 October 2019 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Celtic FC Group E - Matchday 3 SS Lazio Last updated 28/02/2020 15:52CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 13 Match-by-match lineups 17 Match officials 19 Legend 21 1 Celtic FC - SS Lazio Thursday 24 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Celtic FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Internazionale Milano - Celtic 1-0 26/02/2015 R32 Milan Guarín 88 FC agg: 4-3 Armstrong 24, Celtic FC - FC Internazionale Campagnaro 26 (og), 19/02/2015 R32 3-3 Glasgow Milano Guidetti 90+3; Shaqiri 4, Palacio 13, 45 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kaká 13, Zapata 49, 26/11/2013 GS Celtic FC - AC Milan 0-3 Glasgow Balotelli 60 Izaguirre 82 (og), 18/09/2013 GS AC Milan - Celtic FC 2-0 Milan Muntari 86 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Matri 24, Quagliarella 06/03/2013 R16 Juventus - Celtic FC Turin agg: 5-0 65 Matri 3, Marchisio 77, 12/02/2013 R16 Celtic FC - Juventus 0-3 Glasgow Vučinić 83 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Di Natale 45+1; 15/12/2011 GS Udinese Calcio - Celtic FC 1-1 Udine Hooper 29 Ki Sung-Yong 3 (P); 29/09/2011 GS Celtic FC - Udinese Calcio 1-1 Glasgow Abdi 88 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/12/2007 GS AC Milan - Celtic FC 1-0 Milan F. Inzaghi 70 McManus 61, 03/10/2007 GS Celtic FC - AC Milan 2-1 Glasgow McDonald 89; Kaká 68 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 07/03/2007 R16 AC Milan - Celtic FC Milan Kaká 93 ET agg 1-0 (aet) 20/02/2007 R16 Celtic FC - AC Milan 0-0 Glasgow 2 Celtic FC - SS Lazio Thursday 24 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/12/2004 GS Celtic FC - AC Milan 0-0 Glasgow Shevchenko 8, F. 29/09/2004 GS AC Milan - Celtic FC 3-1 Milan Inzaghi 89, Pirlo 90+1; Varga 74 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Valgaeren 24, Sutton 45, 64, Larsson 57 31/10/2001 GS1 Celtic FC - Juventus 4-3 Glasgow (P); Del Piero 19, Trezeguet 51, 77 Trezeguet 43, 55, Amoruso 90 (P); 18/09/2001 GS1 Juventus - Celtic FC 3-2 Turin St.Petrov 67, Larsson 86 (P) European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 30/09/1981 R1 Juventus - Celtic FC Turin Virdis 27, Bettega 35 agg: 2-1 16/09/1981 R1 Celtic FC - Juventus 1-0 Glasgow MacLeod 67 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 Celtic FC - FC Internazionale 19/04/1972 SF agg: 0-0 (aet, 4- Glasgow Milano 5 pens) FC Internazionale Milano - Celtic 05/04/1972 SF 0-0 Milan FC European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 18/03/1970 QF ACF Fiorentina - Celtic FC Florence Chiarugi 37 agg: 1-3 Auld 30, Carpenetti 04/03/1970 QF Celtic FC - ACF Fiorentina 3-0 Glasgow 49 (og), Wallace 89 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 12/03/1969 QF Celtic FC - AC Milan Glasgow Prati 12 agg: 0-1 19/02/1969 QF AC Milan - Celtic FC 0-0 Milan European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Gemmell 63, Celtic FC - FC Internazionale 25/05/1967 F 2-1 Lisbon Chalmers 84; Mazzola Milano 7 (P) 3 Celtic FC - SS Lazio Thursday 24 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow SS Lazio - Record versus clubs from opponents' country SS Lazio 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 Celtic FC 12 4 5 3 12 0 3 9 1 1 0 0 25 5 8 12 20 33 SS Lazio 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Celtic FC - SS Lazio Thursday 24 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow Match background Celtic welcome Lazio to Glasgow hoping to protect their position as leaders of UEFA Europa League Group E, both clubs having registered home wins on Matchday 2. • The Scottish champions have four points from their first two games, a 2-0 home win against CFR Cluj following a 1-1 draw away to Rennes. Lazio are a point in arrears of their hosts, though they made up for a shock opening 2-1 defeat in Romania by coming from behind to beat Rennes by the same score in Rome with second-half goals from Sergej Milinković-Savić and Ciro Immobile. Previous meetings • Lazio have never faced Scottish opponents in UEFA competition. • Celtic have won just five of their 25 previous UEFA fixtures against Italian clubs, though at home their record is W4 D5 L3. They famously beat a Serie A side, Internazionale, to win the 1966/67 European Cup final, triumphing 2-1 in Lisbon. • Inter were the Bhoys' first Italian opponents in Europe and also their most recent, the Nerazzurri eliminating them from the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League round of 32 thanks to a 3-3 draw in Glasgow and a 1-0 victory in Milan. Celtic are without a win in four home fixtures against Italian visitors (D2 L2), conceding three goals in each of the last three contests. Form guide Celtic • Celtic won the domestic treble of Premiership, Scottish Cup and League Cup for an unprecedented third successive season in 2018/19 but in Europe they missed out on the UEFA Champions League group stage and lost five matches in the UEFA Europa League, including both round of 16 encounters against Valencia (0-2 h, 0-1 a). • This term Celtic again failed to negotiate the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, losing to CFR (1-1 a, 3-4 h), but a comprehensive play-off win against Swedish champions AIK (2-0 h, 4-1 a) enabled them to reach the UEFA Europa League group stage for the sixth time. Two of their previous five participations at this juncture have been successful, including last season, but they have yet to progress beyond the round of 32. • Thanks to that Matchday 2 victory against CFR, the Glasgow giants have now won more home matches than they have lost in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final (W8 D4 L7). They have won four of their five European home games this season. Lazio • Lazio defeated Atalanta 2-0 in last season's Coppa Italia final to lift the trophy for the seventh time and gain direct access to the UEFA Europa League group stage – a competition they exited in the round of 32 last season after losing home (0-1) and away (0-2) to Sevilla. • Their last six UEFA Europa League group stage participations have all been successful – after failure in the first – and they have topped their section on three occasions. Their best performances came in 2012/13 and 2017/18, when they reached the quarter-finals. • Runners-up to Inter in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup, Lazio went 11 away games unbeaten in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final, from October 2013 until a 2-3 defeat at Zulte Waregem in December 2017, equalling Fiorentina's competition record. However, they have now lost seven of their last nine (W2), including four of their last five in the group stage. Links and trivia • Celtic's Olivier Ntcham played with Genoa between 2015 and 2017 and was a team-mate – and fellow loanee – of Lazio's Danilo Cataldi at the club in 2016/17. • Celtic's Boli Bolingoli and Lazio's Jordan Lukaku are cousins. • Lazio are appearing in the UEFA Europa League group stage for the eighth time, matching Salzburg's competition record. • This will be Celtic boss Neil Lennon's 50th European match as a manager. The coaches • Having just left Hibernian, former Northern Ireland international Lennon returned for a second spell as Celtic manager in February 2019 following Brendan Rodgers' mid-season move to Leicester City, and duly sealed the club's 'treble treble' of domestic trophies. He had previously served the Glasgow club as player (2000–07) and manager (2010–14), capturing 16 trophies during those spells, though it was at Leicester, where he won two League Cups under his compatriot Martin O'Neill, that he first made his mark as an industrious and effective midfield anchorman. 5 Celtic FC - SS Lazio Thursday 24 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow • Lazio boss since April 2016, when he replaced Stefano Pioli, Simone Inzaghi represented the club as a forward between 1999 and 2010, winning the Italian double in his debut season and the Coppa Italia twice more in later years. The younger brother of fellow ex-Italian international Filippo Inzaghi, with whom he played at home-town outfit Piacenza, he began coaching Lazio's youth teams immediately after hanging up his boots.