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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2014/15 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 0-1) Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium - Istanbul Thursday 26 February 2015 Beşiktaş JK 19.00CET (20.00 local time) Liverpool FC Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 11/08/2015 17:09CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 6 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 18 Legend 20 1 Beşiktaş JK - Liverpool FC Thursday 26 February 2015 - 19.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium, Istanbul Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/02/2015 R32 Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK 1-0 Liverpool Balotelli 85 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Crouch 19, 89, Benayoun 32, 53, 56, 06/11/2007 GS Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK 8-0 Liverpool Gerrard 69, Babel 78, 81 Hyypiä 13 (og), Bobô 24/10/2007 GS Beşiktaş JK - Liverpool FC 2-1 Istanbul 82; Gerrard 85 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Beşiktaş JK 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 2 10 Liverpool FC 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 10 2 Beşiktaş JK - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Beşiktaş JK - Tottenham Hotspur 11/12/2014 GS 1-0 Istanbul Cenk Tosun 59 FC Tottenham Hotspur FC - Beşiktaş 02/10/2014 GS 1-1 London Kane 27; Ba 89 (P) JK UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 27/08/2014 PO Arsenal FC - Beşiktaş JK London Alexis Sánchez 45+1 agg: 1-0 19/08/2014 PO Beşiktaş JK - Arsenal FC 0-0 Istanbul UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manuel Fernandes 59 (P), Mustafa 14/12/2011 GS Beşiktaş JK - Stoke City FC 3-1 Istanbul Pektemek 74, Edu 82; Fuller 29 Crouch 15, Walters 78 29/09/2011 GS Stoke City FC - Beşiktaş JK 2-1 Stoke-on-Trent (P); Hilbert 14 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manchester United FC - Beşiktaş 25/11/2009 GS 0-1 Manchester Tello 20 JK Beşiktaş JK - Manchester United 15/09/2009 GS 0-1 Istanbul Scholes 77 FC 2 Beşiktaş JK - Liverpool FC Thursday 26 February 2015 - 19.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium, Istanbul UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Beşiktaş JK - Tottenham Ghaly 31, Berbatov 19/10/2006 GS 0-2 Istanbul Hotspur FC 63 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Beşiktaş JK - Bolton Wanderers Aílton Gonçalves 7; 20/10/2005 GS 1-1 Istanbul FC Borgetti 29 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Hasselbaink 77, 09/12/2003 GS Beşiktaş JK - Chelsea FC 0-2 Gelsenkirchen Bridge 85 01/10/2003 GS Chelsea FC - Beşiktaş JK 0-2 London Sergen Yalçın 24, 29 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/10/2000 GS Beşiktaş JK - Leeds United 0-0 Istanbul Bowyer 7, 90, Viduka 26/09/2000 GS Leeds United - Beşiktaş JK 6-0 Leeds 12, Matteo 22, Bakke 65, Huckerby 90 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 29/09/1982 R1 Beşiktaş JK - Aston Villa FC Istanbul agg: 1-3 Withe 4, Morley 9, 15/09/1982 R1 Aston Villa FC - Beşiktaş JK 3-1 Birmingham Mortimer 29; Eksi 74 Liverpool FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Gutiérrez 4; Giray 1-2 26/08/2010 PO Trabzonspor AŞ - Liverpool FC Trabzon Kaçar 83 (og), Kuyt agg: 1-3 88 19/08/2010 PO Liverpool FC - Trabzonspor AŞ 1-0 Liverpool Babel 45+1 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Necati 24, Okan 05/12/2006 GS Galatasaray AŞ - Liverpool FC 3-2 Istanbul Buruk 28, S. Ilić 79; Fowler 22, 90 Crouch 9, 52, Luis 27/09/2006 GS Liverpool FC - Galatasaray AŞ 3-2 Liverpool García 14; Ümit Karan 59, 65 3 Beşiktaş JK - Liverpool FC Thursday 26 February 2015 - 19.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium, Istanbul UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Niculescu 71; Heskey 26/02/2002 2ndGS Galatasaray AŞ - Liverpool FC 1-1 Istanbul 79 20/02/2002 2ndGS Liverpool FC - Galatasaray AŞ 0-0 Liverpool European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-0 Heighway 8, Johnson 03/11/1976 R2 Liverpool FC - Trabzonspor AŞ Liverpool agg: 3-1 10, Keegan 18 20/10/1976 R2 Trabzonspor AŞ - Liverpool FC 1-0 Trabzon Usta 62 (P) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Beşiktaş JK 10 3 4 3 9 2 1 6 0 0 0 0 19 5 5 9 13 30 Liverpool FC 6 5 1 0 5 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 11 6 2 3 22 10 4 Beşiktaş JK - Liverpool FC Thursday 26 February 2015 - 19.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium, Istanbul Match background Liverpool FC walked away as UEFA Champions League winners the last time they played at the Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium – their task this time around is to see off Beşiktaş JK and qualify for the UEFA Europa League round of 16. Previous meetings • Liverpool won the first leg at Anfield thanks to Mario Balotelli's 85th-minute penalty. • The sides also met in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League group stage, with Ertuğrul Sağlam's Beşiktaş beating the Reds 2-1 in Istanbul before crashing 8-0 to Rafael Benítez's men at Anfield; it remains Beşiktaş's heaviest European defeat, and indeed the heaviest loss suffered by any club in the UEFA Champions League (group stage to final). • The teams for the Istanbul game on 24 October 2007 were: Beşiktaş: Hakan Arıkan, Serdar Kurtuluş* (Koray Avcı 42), Matías Delgado (Higuaín 62), Bobô (Diatta 86), Tello, Cissé, İbrahim Üzülmez, Serdar Özkan, Ali Tandoğan, İbrahim Toraman. Liverpool: Reina, Finnan, Hyypiä (Crouch 83), Riise, Gerrard*, Voronin, Pennant (Benayoun 59), Kuyt, Babel, Mascherano (Lucas 76), Carragher. *registered to play for the club in this season's competition Form guide • Beşiktaş are unbeaten in three home matches against English sides (W2 D1), and have already taken on English opponents this season, drawing 1-1 away and winning 1-0 at home against Tottenham Hotspur FC in the UEFA Europa League group stage and losing 1-0 on aggregate to Arsenal FC in the UEFA Champions League play-offs. • Liverpool have won only once in five away games against Turkish sides, but have good reason to remember Istanbul fondly, having won the 2005 UEFA Champions League final on penalties following a 3-3 draw with AC Milan at the Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium. • Beşiktaş are unbeaten in six European home games (W4 D2); Liverpool are without a win in four away from home (D1 L3). • Liverpool went out to FC Zenit (on away goals) in their last round of 32 tie in 2012/13. Trivia and links • Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard may be playing his final UEFA club competition campaign having agreed to leave for LA Galaxy in the summer. • Beşiktaş striker Demba Ba knows English football well from his time with West Ham United FC, Newcastle United FC and Chelsea FC. He scored twice in five matches against Liverpool (W3 D1 L1). • Beşiktaş winger Kerim Koyunlu also appeared in the English leagues with Fulham FC and Cardiff City AFC, tasting both victory and defeat against Liverpool. • Liverpool's Emre Can and Samed Yeşil are both German players of Turkish extraction. • Liverpool (1973, 1976 and 2001) are among 11 former UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League winners in the round of 32. They are also among six last-32 contenders to have won the European Cup or UEFA Champions League. The coaches • Beşiktaş coach since June 2013, Slaven Bilić earned a bronze medal as a defender with Croatia at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and went on to lead his country to UEFA EURO 2008 and UEFA EURO 2012 as a coach. A rock music fan with a law degree, he was at the FC Lokomotiv Moskva helm before heading to Turkey. • Bilić played for Liverpool's local rivals Everton FC from 1997–99. • Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers' professional playing career was over by the age of 20, a knee condition forcing the Northern Irish defender to move into coaching, where he initially worked in Reading FC's academy. He managed Watford FC and Reading before steering Swansea City AFC into the Premier League, and has been in charge at Anfield since June 2012. 5 Beşiktaş JK - Liverpool FC Thursday 26 February 2015 - 19.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium, Istanbul Team facts Beşiktaş JK Formed: 1903 Nickname: Kara Kartal (The Black Eagles) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • none Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 13 (2009) Turkish Cup: 9 (2011) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless otherwise indicated) 2013/14: play-offs 2012/13: did not participate in UEFA competition 2011/12: round of 32 2010/11: round of 32 2009/10: UEFA Champions League group stage 2008/09: first round 2007/08: UEFA Champions League group stage 2006/07: group stage 2005/06: group stage 2004/05: group stage Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-1: Beşiktaş v Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC 15/09/11, UEFA Europa League group stage 5-1: Beşiktaş v FC Vaduz 25/08/05, UEFA Cup second qualifying round second leg 4-0: Beşiktaş JK v NK Široki Brijeg 28/08/08, UEFA Cup second qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: FK Sarejevo v Beşiktaş 03/10/02, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Beşiktaş v FC Dynamo Kyiv 14/03/87, European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals first leg • Heaviest away defeat 8-0: Liverpool FC v Beşiktaş 06/11/07, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 5-1: Beşiktaş v Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC (see above) 5-1: Beşiktaş v FC Vaduz (see above)