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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Astana Arena - Astana Thursday 4 October 2018 16.50CET (20.50 local time) FC Astana Group K - Matchday 2 Stade Rennais FC Last updated 15/03/2019 12:04CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 14 Legend 15 1 FC Astana - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 4 October 2018 - 16.50CET (20.50 local time) Match press kit Astana Arena, Astana Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams FC Astana - Record versus clubs from opponents' country FC Astana have not played against a club from their opponents' country Stade Rennais FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Stade Rennais FC have not played against a club from their opponents' country 2 FC Astana - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 4 October 2018 - 16.50CET (20.50 local time) Match press kit Astana Arena, Astana Match background Astana and Rennes meet in the capital of Kazkahstan with both teams looking to consolidate a fine start to UEFA Europa League Group K in which late goals proved beneficial, Astana equalising deep into added time to draw 2-2 at Dynamo Kyiv while Rennes scored a 91st-minute penalty to beat Jablonec 2-1 in Brittany. Previous meetings • This is Astana's first match against a French club and Rennes's first against opposition from Kazakhstan. Form guide Astana • Astana are on a run of four successive domestic league titles and came through four qualifying ties this summer – the first three in the UEFA Champions League – to complete a hat-trick of UEFA Europa League group stage participations. After defeating Sutjeska and Midtjylland but then losing to Dinamo Zagreb, they won their UEFA Europa League play-off on penalties – their first European shoot-out – against Cypriot champions APOEL after two 1- 0 home wins. • Having become the first team from Kazakhstan to play in the UEFA Champions League proper in 2015/16, Astana have spent the last two autumns in the UEFA Europa League. Their tally of five points in 2016/17 was not enough to see them through but last season they doubled that total to reach the round of 32, where they lost 6-4 over two legs to Sporting CP. • In each of their three European group campaigns Astana have drawn at home on matchday two. Since completing that particular hat-trick against Slavia Praha last season (1-1) they have not drawn another European game in Astana, winning four and losing three. Their overall record at home in group stage football is W2 D6 L1, the sole defeat having come in their last such encounter, 2-3 against Villarreal. Rennes • Rennes earned their first ever qualifying exemption for a major UEFA club competition by finishing fifth in the 2017/18 Ligue 1. • They have competed in the UEFA Europa League group stage once before, in 2011/12, after coming through two qualifying rounds. Defeated in all three away fixtures, against Udinese (1-2), Celtic (1-3) and eventual winners Atlético Madrid (1-3), they drew all three at home. That was the club's most recent European campaign. • Rennes also participated twice in the UEFA Cup group stage, in 2005/06 and 2007/08, but were winless in those too, losing all four away games. Their last European away win outside the summer months was 3-1 at Lokomotiv Sofia in the first round of the 2007/08 UEFA Cup. Links and trivia • Astana's Ivan Maevski was in the Belarus side that drew 0-0 at home to eventual champions France in their opening 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier. • In Astana's penalty shoot-out win against APOEL in this season's play-off no fewer than six of the nine spot kicks failed to find the target, the Kazakh champions winning 2-1. • Rennes's first goal in the 2-1 win against Jablonec on matchday one was a spectacular long-distance strike from 20- year-old winger Ismaïla Sarr, who starred for Senegal at the 2018 FIFA World Cup but was making his debut in UEFA club competition. The coaches • A free-scoring Ukrainian striker, Roman Hryhorchuk has made his name as a coach in eastern Europe, starting out in Latvia, where he won three league titles and two domestic cups during a four-year spell with Ventspils. He went on to coach Chornomorets Odesa in his homeland and Azerbaijan side Gabala for similar periods, overseeing UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns for both, before replacing Stanimir Stoilov at Kazakh champions Astana in June 2018. • Sabri Lamouchi is a former French international midfielder who represented his country at EURO '96 after wining the domestic double that season with Auxerre. He also scooped the French title with Monaco in 1999/2000 before moving to Italy. His first managerial posting was as head coach to the Ivory Coast national side, whom he led at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. After two and a half years in charge of Qatari side El Jaish, he became Rennes boss in November 2017, replacing Christian Gourcuff. 3 FC Astana - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 4 October 2018 - 16.50CET (20.50 local time) Match press kit Astana Arena, Astana Team facts FC Astana Formed: 2009 Nickname: The Blue and Yellows UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) Domestic title: 4 (2017) Kazakhstan Cup: 3 (2016) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2016/17: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2015/16: UEFA Champions League group stage 2014/15: play-offs 2013/14: first qualifying round 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA club competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 4-0: Astana v Maccabi Tel-Aviv 19/10/17, UEFA Europa League group stage • Biggest away win 1-4: Pyunik v Astana 03/07/14, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round first leg 0-3: AIK Solna v Astana 07/08/14, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Astana v Villarreal 21/08/14, UEFA Europa League play-off first leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 twice, most recently v Celtic 16/08/17, UEFA Champions League play-off first leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 4-0: Astana v Maccabi Tel-Aviv (see above) • Biggest away win 1-4: Pyunik v Astana (see above) 0-3: AIK Solna v Astana (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Astana v Villarreal (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: Botev Plovdiv v Astana 11/07/13, first qualifying round second leg Stade Rennais FC Founded: 1901 Nickname: Les Rouge et Noir (The Red and Blacks) UEFA club competition honours • UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 2008 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) 4 FC Astana - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 4 October 2018 - 16.50CET (20.50 local time) Match press kit Astana Arena, Astana French Cup: 2 (1971) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2011/12: group stage 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: first round (having transferred from UEFA Intertoto Cup) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Rennes v Synot 15/07/01, UEFA Intertoto Cup third round first leg • Biggest away win 2-5: Metalurgi Rustavi v Rennes 28/07/11, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: Rennes v Stuttgart 20/10/05, UEFA Cup group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: PAOK v Rennes 14/12/05, UEFA Cup group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 4-0: Rennes v Crvena zvezda 25/08/11, play-offs second leg • Biggest away win 2-5: Metalurgi Rustavi v Rennes (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: Rennes v Stuttgart (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: PAOK v Rennes (see above) 5 FC Astana - Stade Rennais FC Thursday 4 October 2018 - 16.50CET (20.50 local time) Match press kit Astana Arena, Astana Squad list FC Astana Current season All-time UCL QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Nenad Erić KAZ 26/05/1982 36 - 6 - 2 - 1 - 18 - 15 - 50 - 35 Aleksandr Mokin KAZ 19/06/1981 37 - - - - - - - 9 - 4 - 28 - 53 Stanislav Pavlov KAZ 30/05/1994 24 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Antonio Rukavina SRB 26/01/1984 34 - 6 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 25 - 35 - 5 Marin Aničić BIH 17/08/1989 29 - 5 - 1 - 1 1 22 - 12 3 56 6 15 Abzal Beysebekov KAZ 30/11/1992 25 - - - 2 - - - 23 - 13 - 43 1 25 Sergei Maliy KAZ 05/06/1990 28 - 1 - 1 - - - 14 2 15 - 32 1 27 Yuri Logvinenko KAZ 22/07/1988 30 - 1 - 1 - - - 15 1 10 1 53 2 44 Evgeni Postnikov KAZ 16/04/1986 32 - 6 - 2 - 1 - 17 - 6 - 48 1 77 Dmitri Shomko KAZ 19/03/1990 28 - 6 - 2 - 1 - 22 2 15 1 57 5 Midfielders 6 László Kleinheisler HUN 08/04/1994 24 - 6 2 2 - 1 - 23 - 3 - 19 2 7 Serikzhan Muzhikov KAZ 17/06/1989 29 - 6 1 2 - 1 - 17 2 13 - 48 3 11 Pedro Henrique BRA 16/06/1990 28 - 4 - 2 1 1 - 4 - 3 - 19 3 14 Marin Tomasov CRO 31/08/1987 31 - 6 - 2 - 1 - 25 9 14 3 36 6 18 Ivan Maevski BLR 05/05/1988 30 - 6 - 2 -