UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Şükrü Saracoğlu - Istanbul Thursday 8 November 2018 16.50CET (18.50 local time) Fenerbahçe SK Group D - Matchday 4 RSC Anderlecht Last updated 22/02/2019 14:10CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 Fenerbahçe SK - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 8 November 2018 - 16.50CET (18.50 local time) Match press kit Şükrü Saracoğlu, Istanbul Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bakkali 35, 50; Frey 25/10/2018 GS RSC Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe SK 2-2 Brussels 53, Hasan Ali Kaldırım 57 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers RSC Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe 0-2 29/08/2007 QR3 Brussels Kežman 4, Alex 73 SK agg: 0-3 Fenerbahçe SK - RSC 15/08/2007 QR3 1-0 Istanbul Alex 32 Anderlecht European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Van Himst 5, RSC Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe 5-1 Stockman 32, 50, 70, 15/09/1965 PR Brussels SK agg: 5-1 Hanon 89; Altıparmak 83 08/09/1965 PR Fenerbahçe SK - RSC Anderlecht 0-0 Istanbul Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Fenerbahçe SK 2 1 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 1 6 7 RSC Anderlecht 3 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 7 6 Fenerbahçe SK - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Fenerbahçe SK have not played against a club from their opponents' country RSC Anderlecht - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers RSC Anderlecht - Galatasaray 26/11/2014 GS 2-0 Brussels Mbemba 44, 86 AŞ Burak Yılmaz 90+1; 16/09/2014 GS Galatasaray AŞ - RSC Anderlecht 1-1 Istanbul Praet 52 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Juhász 38, Jovanović 2-2 25/08/2011 PO RSC Anderlecht - Bursaspor Brussels 57; Turgay Bahadır 5, agg: 4-3 Stepanov 68 Gökçek Vederson 36 18/08/2011 PO Bursaspor - RSC Anderlecht 1-2 Bursa (P); Legear 53 (P), Jovanović 77 2 Fenerbahçe SK - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 8 November 2018 - 16.50CET (18.50 local time) Match press kit Şükrü Saracoğlu, Istanbul UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ersen Martin 12, 3-1 Kamanan 19 (P), Ayın 04/08/2009 QR3 Sivasspor - RSC Anderlecht Sivas agg: 3-6 Musa 58; Van Damme 34 De Sutter 17, 76, Boussoufa 22, 28/07/2009 QR3 RSC Anderlecht - Sivasspor 5-0 Brussels Chatelle 32, Frutos 90+1 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Özdenak 35; Galatasaray AŞ - RSC 1-5 Rensenbrink 25, 64, 03/11/1976 R2 Istanbul Anderlecht agg: 2-10 Haan 42, Ressel 70, Coeck 71 Coeck 10, RSC Anderlecht - Galatasaray Vercauteren 19, 81, 20/10/1976 R2 5-1 Brussels AŞ Rensenbrink 52 (P), 72; Özdenak 49 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Fenerbahçe SK 2 1 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 1 6 7 RSC Anderlecht 7 4 2 1 6 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 13 6 4 3 30 15 3 Fenerbahçe SK - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 8 November 2018 - 16.50CET (18.50 local time) Match press kit Şükrü Saracoğlu, Istanbul Match background Anderlecht surprisingly prop up UEFA Europa League Group D with just a single point and are under severe pressure to claim a first win in the section against hosts Fenerbahçe, who since the 2-2 draw in Brussels on 25 October have dismissed their head coach Phillip Cocu. • The record champions of Belgium surrendered a 2-0 lead at home to Fenerbahçe last time out – after a Zakaria Bakkali double had appeared to put them in charge – but the draw at least earned them a first point following defeats at Spartak Trnava (0-1) and at home to Dinamo Zagreb (0-2). The Istanbul side are three points better off, having recovered from an opening 4-1 defeat in Zagreb to defeat Trnava 2-0 in Istanbul. • Anderlecht will be out if they lose. Previous meetings • The clubs have been paired together twice before in UEFA competition, Anderlecht winning a European Cup preliminary round tie in 1965 (5-1 at home and on aggregate) and Fenerbahçe winning both legs (1-0 home, 2-0 away) in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round – the first step on the Turkish club's run to the quarter-finals. • Those are Fenerbahçe's only previous meetings with Belgian opposition, whereas Anderlecht have faced Turkish teams on eight other occasions in the past. Their overall record in Turkey, including the matches at Fenerbahçe, is W2 D2 L2. Form guide Fenerbahçe • Fenerbahçe finished runners-up in the Turkish league and cup last season, with Galatasaray edging them out in the Süper Lig and unheralded Akhisar shocking them with a 3-2 cup final win. They opened their 2017/18 European campaign with a UEFA Champions League third qualifying round defeat by Benfica (0-1 away, 1-1 home), which sent them directly into the UEFA Europa League group stage. • This is the Istanbul club's fifth appearance at this stage of the competition and they have qualified for the knockout phase on each of the previous four occasions, most recently in 2016/17 when they topped a group featuring eventual winners Manchester United. Their most successful campaign was in 2012/13, when they reached the semi-finals. • Having won all three Istanbul fixtures in that 2016/17 group stage, Fenerbahçe made it four group stage home wins in a row with their matchday two success against Trnava, that result ending a four-match sequence without a European victory in their own stadium. The Yellow Canaries have scored at least once in each of their last 16 European home games. Anderlecht • Third in Belgium last term behind Club Brugge and Standard Liège, Anderlecht's European reward was automatic qualification for the UEFA Europa League group stage. • The Brussels club are competing at this juncture of the competition for the sixth time and have never failed to progress to the knockout phase, reaching the quarter-finals on their most recent participation, in 2016/17. • Anderlecht have lost eight of their last ten European fixtures, failing to score in six of them. However, they have lost just one of their last five away fixtures in the UEFA Europa League group stage (W2 D2), contributing to an overall record of W7 D4 L5. Links and trivia • As the coach of Gent, Hein Vanhaezebrouck claimed home (2-0) and away (1-0) wins over Turkish club Konyaspor in the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League group stage. • Fenerbahçe's long-serving Turkish international goalkeeper Volkan Demirel – who played in the 2007/08 win at Anderlecht – is married to a former Miss Belgium, Zeynep Sever, with whom he has two daughters. The coaches • Fenerbahçe parted company with coach Phillip Cocu on 29 October. His place has been taken on an interim basis by his assistant, and fellow Dutchman, Erwin Koeman. Formerly the right-hand man also to his brother, Ronald, at Southampton and Everton, the 57-year-old has been a head coach in his own right in the past, including stints with Feyenoord (2005–07) and Hungary (2008–10). A left-footed midfielder, he had successful spells with Mechelen and PSV Eindhoven and won EURO '88 with the Netherlands. • After a successful three-year spell with Gent, during which he led the club to their first Belgian title, in 2014/15, and into the UEFA Champions League round of 16 the following season, Hein Vanhaezebrouck was appointed as Anderlecht boss in October 2017, succeeding René Weiler. He first established his coaching credentials during two spells in the dugout of home-town club Kortrijk, whom he had also represented during a modest playing career. 4 Fenerbahçe SK - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 8 November 2018 - 16.50CET (18.50 local time) Match press kit Şükrü Saracoğlu, Istanbul 5 Fenerbahçe SK - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 8 November 2018 - 16.50CET (18.50 local time) Match press kit Şükrü Saracoğlu, Istanbul Team facts Fenerbahçe SK Formed: 1907 Nickname: Sarı Kanaryalar (Yellow Canaries) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 19 (2014) Turkish Cup: 6 (2013) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: play-offs 2016/17: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2015/16: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2013/14: UEFA Champions League play-offs 2012/13: semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2010/11: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2009/10: round of 32 2008/09: UEFA Champions League group stage Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Fenerbahçe v Turan Tovuz 09/08/94, UEFA Cup preliminary round first leg • Biggest away win 0-5 twice, most recently v MTK Budapest 06/08/08, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Fenerbahçe v Cannes 27/09/94, UEFA Cup first round second leg 0-4 twice, most recently v AC Milan 23/11/05, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 7-0: Benfica v Fenerbahçe 17/09/75, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 5-0: Fenerbahçe v Turan Tovuz (see above) • Biggest away win 0-4: Partizani v Fenerbahçe 22/08/95, preliminary round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Fenerbahçe v Cannes (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 7-1: Sigma Olomouc v Fenerbahçe 04/11/92, second round second leg RSC Anderlecht Formed: 1908 Nicknames: