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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS KAA Gent Stadium - Ghent Thursday 19 September 2019 21.00CET (21.00 local time) KAA Gent Group I - Matchday 1 AS Saint-Étienne Last updated 28/02/2020 15:29CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 KAA Gent - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit KAA Gent Stadium, Ghent Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams KAA Gent - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Girondins de Bordeaux - 2-0 Kamano 10, Briand 30/08/2018 PO Bordeaux KAA Gent agg: 2-0 64 (P) KAA Gent - FC Girondins de 23/08/2018 PO 0-0 Ghent Bordeaux UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ferri 7; Milicevic 32, 24/11/2015 GS Olympique Lyonnais - KAA Gent 1-2 Lyon K. Coulibaly 90+5 16/09/2015 GS KAA Gent - Olympique Lyonnais 1-1 Ghent Milicevic 68; Jallet 58 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Obraniak 30, Frau 56, 16/12/2010 GS LOSC Lille - KAA Gent 3-0 Lille Métropole Sow 89 30/09/2010 GS KAA Gent - LOSC Lille 1-1 Ghent De Smet 5; Frau 21 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Arteta 11, Mendy 35, Anelka 45, 63, 7-1 01/08/2001 SF Paris Saint-Germain - KAA Gent Paris Okocha 56 (P), 60, agg: 7-1 Hiroux 89; Kraouche 72 25/07/2001 SF KAA Gent - Paris Saint-Germain 0-0 Ghent UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Tlokinski 75, Piette 93 28/09/1983 R1 RC Lens - KAA Gent Lens agg 3-2 (aet) ET; Koudijzer 55 14/09/1983 R1 KAA Gent - RC Lens 1-1 Ghent Busk 37; Ogaza 54 AS Saint-Étienne - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Chipciu 21, Stanciu RSC Anderlecht - AS Saint- 08/12/2016 GS 2-3 Brussels 31; Søderlund 62, 67, Étienne Monnet-Paquet 74 AS Saint-Étienne - RSC Roux 90+4; 29/09/2016 GS 1-1 Saint-Etienne Anderlecht Tielemans 62 (P) 2 KAA Gent - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit KAA Gent Stadium, Ghent UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/11/2008 GS Club Brugge - AS Saint-Étienne 1-1 Bruges Vargas 50; Gigliotti 44 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA KAA Gent 5 0 5 0 5 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 10 1 5 4 7 18 AS Saint-Étienne 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 5 4 3 KAA Gent - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit KAA Gent Stadium, Ghent Match background A first ever meeting of Belgium's Gent and France's Saint-Étienne gets the teams' UEFA Europa League Group I campaign under way, with the hosts fresh from three successful summer qualifying ties and their visitors making their first European outing of the season. Previous meetings • Gent's five previous home games against French opponents have all ended in draws, most recently 0-0 against Bordeaux in the first leg of last season's UEFA Europa League play-off; they bowed out after a 2-0 second-leg defeat in south-west France. • St-Étienne are unbeaten in three matches against Belgian sides, their last cross-border visit having brought a 3-2 win at Anderlecht on matchday six of the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League – Les Verts' most recent European campaign. Form guide Gent • Fifth in the 2018/19 Belgian top flight, and also runners-up in the domestic cup, Gent qualified for Europe for the fifth successive season, extending the longest sequence in the club's history. • Ousted in the qualifying phase of the UEFA Europa League in each of the past two seasons, they have come through three ties to reach the group stage this term, defeating Romania's Viitorul (6-3 h, 1-2 a), AEK Larnaca of Cyprus (1-1 a, 3-0 h) and, in the play-offs, Croatian club Rijeka (2-1 h, 1-1 a). Their two previous participations at this juncture of the competition had different outcomes, with elimination in 2010/11 and progress through to the round of 16 in 2016/17. • Gent are undefeated in their last eight European home games against foreign opposition (W5 D3). The last European fixture they lost on home soil was against another Belgian club, Genk, in the 2016/17 round of 16 (2-5). St-Étienne • Absent from Europe since they reached the UEFA Europa League round of 32 in 2016/17, St-Étienne made it back by finishing fourth in Ligue 1 last term to secure a fourth group stage appearance in this competition. • Unable to get out of their group in 2014/15, when they drew their first five matches before losing the last, they were successful in both 2015/16 and 2016/17 before exiting both times at the round of 32 stage, latterly to eventual winners Manchester United (0-3 a, 0-1 h). • Les Verts have a positive away record in the UEFA Europa League group stage of W3 D4 L2, with no defeats in the last five matches (W3 D2). Links and trivia • Gent midfielder Sven Kums is a former team-mate of St-Étienne's Gabriel Silva (Udinese 2016/17) and Robert Berič (Anderlecht 2017/18). • Gent's Dylan Bronn and St-Étienne's Wahbi Khazri are fellow Tunisian internationals who were both squad members at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and this year's CAF Africa Cup of Nations. Khazri scored a late consolation goal against Belgium in a 5-2 defeat at the World Cup in Russia. The coaches • A tall striker who spent most of his playing career in his native Denmark with OB and Esbjerg but also had short spells in Germany, Austria and Norway, Jess Thorup has lately become one of his country's most upwardly mobile coaches. After a two-year stint in charge of the Danish Under-21 side he became Midtjylland's head coach in 2015 and steered the Jutland club to the Superliga title in 2017/18. That prompted interest from abroad and he was recruited in October 2018 by Gent, whom he guided to a runners-up spot in the Belgian Cup and a fifth-placed finish in the league in his first season. • Ghislain Printant stepped up from his position as Jean-Louis Gasset's assistant to become Saint-Étienne’s head coach in June 2019 – a month after his 58th birthday. Only once previously had he taken charge of a Ligue 1 club, at Corsican side Bastia from November 2014 to January 2016, leading the team to the final of the French League Cup. A goalkeeper at amateur level, he was also Gasset's No2 for a short spell at Montpellier in 2017 before the pair moved to St-Étienne. 4 KAA Gent - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit KAA Gent Stadium, Ghent Team facts KAA Gent Formed: 1864 Nickname: De Buffalos (The Buffalos) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Intertoto Cup: (2006), (2007) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League titles: 1 (2015) Belgian Cup: 3 (2010) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: play-offs 2017/18: third qualifying round 2016/17: round of 16 2015/16: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: third qualifying round 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2009/10: third qualifying round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Gent v Viitorul Constanța 28/07/16, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 0-4: Cliftonville v Gent 14/07/07, UEFA Intertoto Cup second round second leg • Biggest home defeat 1-7: Gent v Roma 06/08/09, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round second leg 0-6: Gent v Ajax 12/09/00, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Biggest away defeat 7-1: Paris Saint-Germain v Gent 01/08/01, UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-final second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 5-0: Gent v Viitorul Constanța (see above) • Biggest away win 0-4: Shkëndija v Gent 25/08/16, play-off second leg • Biggest home defeat 1-7: Gent v Roma (see above) 0-6: Gent v Ajax (see above) • Biggest away defeat 5-0: Shakhtar Donetsk v Gent 20/10/16, group stage AS Saint-Étienne Formed: 1919 Nickname: Les Verts (The Greens) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup: (1976) 5 KAA Gent - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit KAA Gent Stadium, Ghent Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) Domestic title: 10 (1981) French Cup: 6 (1977) French League Cup: 1 (2013) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2018/19: did not take part in UEFA competition 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition 2016/17: round of 32 2015/16: round of 32 2014/15: group stage 2013/14: play-offs 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 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-0: St-Étienne v KuPS Kuopio 01/01/80, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-7: KuPS Kuopio v St-Étienne 17/09/80, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-4 twice, most recently v Ipswich 04/03/81, UEFA Cup quarter-final first leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0 twice, most recently v Bohemians 1905 03/11/82, UEFA Cup second round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 7-0: St-Étienne v KuPS Kuopio (see above) • Biggest away win 0-7: KuPS Kuopio v St-Étienne (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-4 twice, most recently v Ipswich (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Bohemians 1905 v St-Étienne (see above) 6 KAA Gent - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 19 September 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit KAA Gent Stadium, Ghent Squad list KAA Gent Current season All-time QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.