Uefa Europa League
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Štadión Antona Malatinského - Trnava Thursday 20 September 2018 FC Spartak Trnava 21.00CET (21.00 local time) RSC Anderlecht Group D - Matchday 1 Last updated 15/12/2018 02:56CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Match officials 13 Legend 14 1 FC Spartak Trnava - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava Previous meetings Head to Head European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers RSC Anderlecht - FC Spartak 0-1 08/11/1972 R2 Brussels Masrna 88 Trnava agg: 0-2 FC Spartak Trnava - RSC 25/10/1972 R2 1-0 Trnava Kabát 46 Anderlecht Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Spartak Trnava 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 RSC Anderlecht 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 FC Spartak Trnava - Record versus clubs from opponents' country FC Spartak Trnava have not played against a club from their opponents' country RSC Anderlecht - Record versus clubs from opponents' country European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Van Himst 10, Coeck RSC Anderlecht - ŠK Slovan 3-1 02/10/1974 R1 Brussels 12, Thissen 89; Bratislava agg: 5-5 ag Masný 54 Novotny 1, Masný 29, ŠK Slovan Bratislava - RSC 18/09/1974 R1 4-2 Bratislava 44, Švehlík 63; Coeck Anderlecht 48, Van Himst 70 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Spartak Trnava 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 RSC Anderlecht 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 3 5 7 2 FC Spartak Trnava - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava Match background Having won the Slovakian league title for the first time in 2017/18, Spartak Trnava are poised to break more new ground with a first appearance in a UEFA competition group stage. Their opening opponents are Belgian heavyweights Anderlecht, who are embarking on a 55th successive season in Europe. Previous meetings • The two teams were paired in UEFA competition in the 1972/73 European Champion Clubs' Cup second round, with Trnava, then representing Czechoslovakia, winning both legs 1-0 to advance to the quarter-finals. • That remains Trnava's only encounter with Belgian opposition. Anderlecht faced Slovan Bratislava two years later in the first round of the same competition, advancing on away goals after a 4-2 first-leg defeat in what is now the Slovakian capital. Form guide Spartak Trnava • Trnava's long wait for a national league title ended after 45 years when they lifted the Superliga crown last season. It earned them a first crack at the UEFA Champions League, but after beating Zrinjski and Legia Warszawa in the opening two qualifying rounds, they fell to Crvena zvezda after extra time in the third. A UEFA Europa League play-off win over Olimpija Ljubljana (2-0 away, 1-1 home) carried them into the group stage. • The victory against Olimpija made it third time lucky for Trnava after their two previous UEFA Europa League play-off ties – against Lokomotiv Moskva in 2011/12 and FC Zürich in 2014/15 – had both ended in defeat. • Despite their qualification for the group stage, Trnava have not won in their last three European home fixtures. Indeed, from the third qualifying round onwards the club have not registered a home victory in eight matches (D4 L4) – a run stretching back seven years. 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. On the only previous occasion they opened their group stage campaign away, in 2009/10, they won 2-0 at Dinamo Zagreb. • Anderlecht won 1-0 at Celtic in their last European fixture, ending a run of six successive defeats. They are unbeaten, however, in their last four away fixtures in the UEFA Europa League group stage (W2 D2), contributing to an overall record of W7 D4 L4. Links and trivia • Trnava coach Radoslav Látal has a positive experience against Anderlecht, having been in the Schalke side – then the holders – who eliminated the Brussels outfit from the UEFA Cup second round in 1997/98, winning both matches (home 1-0, away 2-1). The coaches • A member of the Czech Republic side that reached the final of EURO '96, Radoslav Látal won the UEFA Cup with Schalke a year later and went on to compete in a second UEFA European Championship in 2000. The right-sided midfielder ended his playing career with league and cup successes for Baník Ostrava, but was less successful there in a short stint as a coach, prompting spells in Slovakia, Poland and Belarus before he took over at newly-crowned Slovak champions Spartak Trnava in June 2018. • 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. 3 FC Spartak Trnava - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava Team facts FC Spartak Trnava Formed: 1923 Nickname: Bíli andeli (The White Angels) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 6 (2018) Czechoslovakian/Slovakian Cup: 5 (1998) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2016/17: third qualifying round 2015/16: third qualifying round 2014/15: play-offs 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2012/13: third qualifying round 2011/12: play-offs 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: second qualifying round 2008/09: first qualifying round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-1: Spartak Trnava v Reipas 27/11/68, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round second leg • Biggest away win 1-9: Reipas v Spartak Trnava 20/11/68, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Spartak Trnava v Pobeda 22/06/03, UEFA Intertoto Cup first round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-1: Debrecen v Spartak Trnava 27/06/04, UEFA Intertoto Cup first round second leg 3-0 five times, most recently v Grazer AK 16/09/99, UEFA Cup first round first leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 5-0: Spartak Trnava v Hibernians 10/07/14, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-3: Hibernians v Spartak Trnava 07/07/16, first qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Spartak Trnava v Steaua București 09/08/12, third qualifying round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 3-0: Grazer AK v Spartak Trnava (see above) RSC Anderlecht Formed: 1908 Nicknames: Paars-wit (Purple and Whites, Dutch), Les Mauves et Blancs (Purple and Whites, French) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (2): 1976, (1977), 1978, (1990) 4 FC Spartak Trnava - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava • UEFA Cup (1): 1983, (1984) • UEFA Super Cup (2): 1976, 1978 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 34 (2017) Belgian Cup: 9 (2008) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: UEFA Champions League group stage 2016/17: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2015/16: round of 16 2014/15: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2013/14: UEFA Champions League group stage 2012/13: UEFA Champions League group stage 2011/12: round of 32 2010/11: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2009/10: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2008/09: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 9-0: Anderlecht v Derry City 23/11/65, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 1-10: Haka v Anderlecht 14/09/66, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5 twice, most recently v Paris Saint-Germain 23/10/13, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 10-0: Manchester United v Anderlecht 26/09/56, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 6-1 three times, most recently v Mainz 03/11/16, group stage 5-0: Anderlecht v Tiligul Tiraspol 29/07/98, first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-3 on six occasions, most recently v Slavia Praha 18/08/16, play-off first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Anderlecht v Bayern München 06/03/08, round of 16 first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Real Madrid v Anderlecht 12/12/84, third round second leg 5 FC Spartak Trnava - RSC Anderlecht Thursday 20 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava Squad list FC Spartak Trnava Current season All-time UCL QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.