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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2017/18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Olimpico - Rome Thursday 5 April 2018 21.05CET (21.05 local time) SS Lazio Quarter-finals, First leg FC Salzburg Last updated 04/05/2018 23:41CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 18 Legend 20 1 SS Lazio - FC Salzburg Thursday 5 April 2018 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Afolabi 52, Tchoyi 78; 02/12/2009 GS FC Salzburg - SS Lazio 2-1 Salzburg Foggia 57 Foggia 59; Schiemer 17/09/2009 GS SS Lazio - FC Salzburg 1-2 Rome 82, Janko 90+3 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SS Lazio 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 4 FC Salzburg 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 2 SS Lazio - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 12/12/2002 R3 SS Lazio - SK Sturm Graz Rome Szabics 87 agg: 3-2 Amoah 44; Chiesa 46, 28/11/2002 R3 SK Sturm Graz - SS Lazio 1-3 Graz S. Inzaghi 56, 87 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 09/12/1997 R3 SS Lazio - SK Rapid Wien Rome Venturin 85 agg: 3-0 Casiraghi 38, Mancini 25/11/1997 R3 SK Rapid Wien - SS Lazio 0-2 Vienna 61 FC Salzburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/11/2010 GS Juventus - FC Salzburg 0-0 Turin 21/10/2010 GS FC Salzburg - Juventus 1-1 Salzburg Švento 36; Krasić 47 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 5-0 Carbone 1, 7, Filippini 27/11/2003 R2 Parma FC - FC Salzburg Parma agg: 9-0 43, Sorrentino 47, 87 Filippini 60 (P), 06/11/2003 R2 FC Salzburg - Parma FC 0-4 Linz Gilardino 65, Nakata 84, Rosina 87 1-2 Bertotto 14; Hässler 15/10/2003 R1 Udinese Calcio - FC Salzburg Udine agg: 2-2 ag 61, Eder 77 24/09/2003 R1 FC Salzburg - Udinese Calcio 0-1 Linz Fava 36 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2 SS Lazio - FC Salzburg Thursday 5 April 2018 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome UEFA Champions League 07/12/1994 GS FC Salzburg - AC Milan 0-1 Vienna Massaro 27 Stroppa 39, Simone 28/09/1994 GS AC Milan - FC Salzburg 3-0 Milan 60, 63 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Internazionale Milano - FC 1-0 11/05/1994 F Milan Jonk 65 Salzburg agg: 2-0 FC Salzburg - FC Internazionale 26/04/1994 F 0-1 Vienna Berti 35 Milano Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SS Lazio 3 1 0 2 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 3 8 6 FC Salzburg 5 1 1 3 5 2 1 2 2 0 0 2 12 3 2 7 7 20 3 SS Lazio - FC Salzburg Thursday 5 April 2018 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Match background Two experienced UEFA Europa League campaigners come face to face in Rome for the first leg of this quarter-final as Lazio bid to bring an end to the long unbeaten European run of Austrian champions Salzburg. • Lazio, who are participating in their 55th UEFA Europa League encounter, group stage to final, won Group K in the autumn before coming from behind to eliminate Romania's FCSB in the round of 32 and then disposing of Dynamo Kyiv 4-2 on aggregate in the last 16. • Salzburg, with 56 matches in the UEFA Europa League proper behind them, are making their first appearance in the quarter-finals. They finished top of their group – for a record fourth time – before eliminating both Real Sociedad and Borussia Dortmund by the odd goal in the first two knockout rounds. Previous meetings • A Salzburg side including current players Andreas Ulmer and Christoph Leitgeb defeated a Lazio team featuring Ştefan Radu 2-1 in both of the club's previous encounters, which took place in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League group stage. A matchday one victory in Italy, sealed by Marc Janko's added-time strike, was followed by a repeat performance in Austria as Salzburg went through to the round of 32 – at Lazio's expense – with a maximum haul of 18 points. • Lazio's record in six matches against Austrian opponents is W3 L3 (W1 L2 at home), and they are on a run of three successive defeats. However, they have been triumphant in each of their two knockout ties, defeating Rapid Wien in the third round of the 1997/98 UEFA Cup (3-0 aggregate) and Sturm Graz at the same stage of the same competition five years later (3-2 agg). • Apart from their two victories against Lazio, Salzburg have won just once in ten other matches against Italian sides – at Udinese in the 2003/04 UEFA Cup first round – and have an away record against Serie A opposition of W2 D1 L3. Their only European final appearance, in the 1993/94 UEFA Cup, ended with defeat by an Italian club, Internazionale beating them 1-0 in both legs. • Salzburg's 5-0 loss at Parma in the 2003/04 UEFA Cup second round is the club's joint heaviest European defeat. They had lost the first leg 4-0, still their joint biggest home defeat in UEFA competition. Form guide • Lazio, who have qualified for the UEFA Europa League knockout phase in each of their last five participations – after that initial lapse in 2009/10 – have won eight of their last 11 European home games, losing just one. • This is the Rome side's second appearance in the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals. They lost their only previous tie at this stage to Fenerbahçe in 2012/13 (0-2 away, 1-1 home). • Lazio have won three and lost three of their six European quarter-finals, but they have won the home leg in five of them, all without conceding, the only exception that 1-1 draw against Fenerbahçe. • UEFA Cup runners-up in 1998, and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup winners the following year, Lazio are competing in the UEFA Europa League after a one-season absence, having made it back thanks to a fifth- place finish in Serie A last term. • Lazio have scored four or more goals on seven occasions at the Stadio Olimpico in 2017/18. Currently fifth in Serie A, they are the division's top-scoring team with 73 goals. • Salzburg are unbeaten in their last 19 European matches (W11 D8), since a 1-0 defeat at home to Nice on matchday three of last season's UEFA Europa League. That includes a run of ten games without defeat on their travels (W5 D5), during which they have scored 16 goals and conceded just six. Their most recent away fixture brought a famous 2-1 win at Dortmund – the club's first victory on German soil. • Having come undefeated through the UEFA Europa League group stage for a record fourth time, this is Salzburg's first appearance in the last eight. Their only previous quarter-final participation resulted in a penalty shoot-out triumph against Eintracht Frankfurt (after each had won 1-0 at home) in the 1993/94 UEFA Cup. • Salzburg's concession of just one goal in the group stage equalled another UEFA Europa League record, set by Standard Liège in 2011/12, although the seven goals they scored amounted to the lowest number registered by any of this season's 12 group winners. • Austrian league and cup double winners for the past four seasons, and 1994 UEFA Cup runners-up, Salzburg missed the cut in last year's UEFA Europa League group stage – after succeeding in their previous three attempts. • Salzburg have not lost a competitive fixture since they went down 1-0 at Sturm Graz in the Austrian Bundesliga on 27 August 2017 – a run of 35 matches (W23 D12). 4 SS Lazio - FC Salzburg Thursday 5 April 2018 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Links and trivia • This game takes place on Lazio coach Simone Inzaghi's 42nd birthday. • Italy international striker Ciro Immobile scored a hat-trick in Lazio's round of 32 second leg against FCSB on his first start in this season's competition. His two goals in the group stage, against Vitesse and Zulte Waregem, came as a substitute. He has since added another, at home to Dynamo Kyiv in the round of 16. • That 2-2 draw in the home leg against Dynamo was the 18th UEFA Europa League draw that Lazio have been involved in, group stage to final – a competition record. • Salzburg are the only reigning domestic champions left in the competition. They are also one of only two clubs among the quarter-finalists (alongside European debutants Leipzig) who have never lifted a major UEFA trophy – although they did win last season's UEFA Youth League, beating Benfica in the final under Marco Rose, the club's current senior head coach.