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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis - Piraeus Thursday 18 February 2021 Olympiacos FC 18.55CET (19.55 local time) PSV Eindhoven Round of 32, First leg Last updated 19/03/2021 12:00CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 18 Legend 19 1 Olympiacos FC - PSV Eindhoven Thursday 18 February 2021 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, Piraeus Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Olympiacos FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/11/2009 GS AZ Alkmaar - Olympiacos FC 0-0 Alkmaar 16/09/2009 GS Olympiacos FC - AZ Alkmaar 1-0 Piraeus Torosidis 79 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 17/10/2000 GS1 sc Heerenveen - Olympiacos FC 1-0 Heerenveen Jensen 83 27/09/2000 GS1 Olympiacos FC - sc Heerenveen 2-0 Athens Giovanni 52, 69 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Witschge 36, Gorrè 04/11/1998 GS AFC Ajax - Olympiacos FC 2-0 Amsterdam 88 21/10/1998 GS Olympiacos FC - AFC Ajax 1-0 Athens Alexandris 38 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Kapouranis 58; 05/11/1986 R2 Olympiacos FC - AFC Ajax Athens agg: 1-5 Wouters 90 Bosman 6, Rijkaard 22/10/1986 R2 AFC Ajax - Olympiacos FC 4-0 Amsterdam 43, Van Basten 52, Mühren 83 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Anastopoulos 94 ET, 28/09/1983 R1 Olympiacos FC - AFC Ajax Athens agg 2-0 (aet) 118 ET 14/09/1983 R1 AFC Ajax - Olympiacos FC 0-0 Amsterdam PSV Eindhoven - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Gakpo 20, Madueke 26/11/2020 GS PSV Eindhoven - PAOK FC 3-2 Eindhoven 51, Malen 53; Varela 4, Tzolis 13 Schwab 47, A. 05/11/2020 GS PAOK FC - PSV Eindhoven 4-1 Salonika Živković 56, 66, Tzolis 58; Zahavi 21 (P) 2 Olympiacos FC - PSV Eindhoven Thursday 18 February 2021 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, Piraeus UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ajagun 11, Petrić 43; Panathinaikos FC - PSV 06/11/2014 GS 2-3 Athens Depay 27, L. de Jong Eindhoven 65, Wijnaldum 78 PSV Eindhoven - Panathinaikos 23/10/2014 GS 1-1 Eindhoven Depay 44; Karelis 87 FC UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Papadopoulos 30, Panathinaikos FC - PSV Münch 45 (P), 57, 07/12/2004 GS 4-1 Athens Eindhoven Sânmărtean 81; Beasley 37 PSV Eindhoven - Panathinaikos Vennegoor of 29/09/2004 GS 1-0 Eindhoven FC Hesselink 80 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers PSV Eindhoven - AEK Athens Bouma 51, Robben 05/11/2003 GS1 2-0 Eindhoven FC 63 AEK Athens FC - PSV 21/10/2003 GS1 0-1 Athens Lucius 37 Eindhoven UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Vennegoor of Hesselink 1, 57, 4-1 06/12/2001 R3 PSV Eindhoven - PAOK FC Eindhoven Gakhokidze 32, Van agg: 6-4 Bommel 90+2; Luciano 58 Yiasemakis 35, 68, 22/11/2001 R3 PAOK FC - PSV Eindhoven 3-2 Salonika Udeze 38; De Jong 20, Bruggink 80 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 07/12/2000 R3 PAOK FC - PSV Eindhoven Salonika Bruggink 44 agg: 0-4 Bruggink 4, Kežman 23/11/2000 R3 PSV Eindhoven - PAOK FC 3-0 Eindhoven 15, 43 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers PSV Eindhoven - AEK Athens 3-0 04/11/1992 R2 Eindhoven Romário 5, 51, 74 FC agg: 3-1 AEK Athens FC - PSV 21/10/1992 R2 1-0 Athens Dimitriadis 53 Eindhoven 3 Olympiacos FC - PSV Eindhoven Thursday 18 February 2021 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, Piraeus Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Olympiacos FC 5 4 1 0 5 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 10 4 3 3 7 8 PSV Eindhoven 7 6 1 0 7 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 14 9 1 4 26 18 4 Olympiacos FC - PSV Eindhoven Thursday 18 February 2021 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, Piraeus Match background Two seasoned continental campaigners meet in European competition for the first time as Olympiacos, making their eighth appearance in the UEFA Europa League round of 32, take on PSV Eindhoven. • The Greek champions lost their last five matches in UEFA Champions League Group C, but their one win, on the opening night at home to Marseille, proved sufficient to take third place above the French side. It was a more successful autumn in the UEFA Europa League for PSV, who recovered from two early defeats to win their last three matches and top Group E, just ahead of Spanish debutants Granada, on 12 points. Previous meetings • Olympiacos are undefeated at home to Dutch clubs in UEFA competition, winning four of their five games – all with clean sheets, all in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League – and drawing the other. This is their first fixture against opposition from the Netherlands in the UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League. • PSV have already played in Greece this season, losing 4-1 against PAOK in Salonika on Matchday 3 despite leading at half-time through an Eran Zahavi penalty. They won the return 3-2 in Eindhoven, however, to make their overall record against Greek clubs W9 D1 L4. The most recent of their three wins in Greece was 3-2 against Panathinaikos in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League group stage. They have won all three of their two-legged knockout ties against Greek opposition. Form guide Olympiacos • Champions of Greece for the 45th time in 2019/20 – their first title since 2017 – Olympiacos also lifted the Greek Cup for the 28th time to complete their 18th domestic double. Additionally they played 16 European matches, starting their campaign in the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round and ending it in the UEFA Europa League round of 16, where they were eliminated by Wolverhampton Wanderers (1-1 h, 0-1 a). • This season Pedro Martins' side kicked off their UEFA Champions League adventure in the play-offs, where they overcame Omonia of Cyprus (2-0 h, 0-0 a), but despite opening their Group C campaign with a last-gasp 1-0 win in Piraeus against Marseille, two defeats without scoring against Porto (0-2 a, 0-2 h) and Manchester City (0-3 a, 0-1 h) limited their ambition to taking third place, which they managed on the away goals rule in their head-to-head comparison with Marseille after losing 2-1 at the Stade Vélodrome on Matchday 5. • Through to the UEFA Europa League knockout phase following a mid-season transfer from the UEFA Champions League for the sixth time, Olympiacos have won three of their seven previous UEFA Europa League round of 32 ties – against Rubin Kazan in 2011/12 (1-0 a, 1-0 h), Osmanlıspor in 2016/17 (0-0 h, 3-0 a) and Arsenal last season (0-1 h, 2-1 a aet). The defeats have come against Levante in 2012/13 (0-3 a, 0-1 h), Dnipro in 2014/15 (0-2 a, 2-2 h), Anderlecht in 2015/16 (0-1 a, 1-2 h) and Dynamo Kyiv in 2018/19 (2-2 h, 0-1 a). Olympiacos have yet to progress beyond the round of 16. • The Greek club have won only one of their ten home fixtures in the knockout phase of the UEFA Europa League – the first of them, 1-0 against Rubin Kazan in the 2011/12 round of 32. Their record since then is D5 L4. PSV • The 1988 European champions finished fourth in the curtailed 2019/20 Dutch Eredivisie, earning a place in this season's UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. Under their new German coach Roger Schmidt they won away to both Mura (5-1) and Rosenborg (2-0) to secure a record-equalling eighth group stage berth. • Last season PSV's European campaign ended in the UEFA Europa League group stage, but this term they made further progress for the fifth time, shrugging off an opening 1-2 home defeat by Granada and that 1-4 loss at PAOK to win the reverse fixtures and also complete the double over Omonia, their 4-0 win at home to the Cypriot side on Matchday 6 enabling them to displace the Spanish club from top spot. • The Eindhoven club have a 50% success rate in the UEFA Europa League round of 32, losing to Hamburg in 2009/10 (0-1 a, 3-2 h) and Zenit in 2014/15 (0-1 h, 0-3 a) but winning the two ties in between – against LOSC Lille in 2010/11 (2-2 a, 3-1 h) and Trabzonspor in 2011/12 (2-1 a, 4-1 h). This is PSV's first springtime appearance in European competition since they reached the UEFA Champions League round of 16 in 2015/16. • PSV's record outside the Netherlands in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase is W2 D1 L4, with the away defeats in every case contributing towards elimination.