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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2015/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 2-3) St. Jakob-Park - Basel Thursday 25 February 2016 FC Basel 1893 21.05CET (21.05 local time) AS Saint-Étienne Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 25/02/2016 12:11CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 FC Basel 1893 - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 25 February 2016 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sall 9, Monnet-Paquet AS Saint-Étienne - FC Basel 39, Bahebeck 77; 18/02/2016 R32 3-2 Saint-Etienne 1893 Samuel 44, Janko 56 (P) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Basel 1893 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 AS Saint-Étienne 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 FC Basel 1893 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Basel 1893 - Stade Rennais 25/10/2007 GS 1-0 Basel Streller 55 FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Chipperfield 32, FC Basel 1893 - AS Nancy- 23/11/2006 GS 2-2 Basel Sterjovski 56; Kim 31, Lorraine Berenguer 33 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-2 Carlier 11, Kanté 78; 16/03/2006 R16 RC Strasbourg - FC Basel 1893 Strasbourg agg: 2-4 Eduardo 3, 26 Delgado 8, 09/03/2006 R16 FC Basel 1893 - RC Strasbourg 2-0 Basel Kuzmanović 89 1-1 Vieri 21 (P); 23/02/2006 R3 AS Monaco FC - FC Basel 1893 Monaco agg: 1-2 Majstorovic 56 15/02/2006 R3 FC Basel 1893 - AS Monaco FC 1-0 Basel D. Degen 78 20/10/2005 GS FC Basel 1893 - RC Strasbourg 0-2 Basel Diané 15, Boka 25 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Villeneuve Moussilou 37, 24/02/2005 R3 LOSC Lille - FC Basel 1893 agg: 2-0 d'Ascq Ačimovič 78 (P) 17/02/2005 R3 FC Basel 1893 - LOSC Lille 0-0 Basel AS Saint-Étienne - Record versus clubs from opponents' country 2 FC Basel 1893 - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 25 February 2016 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Maraninchi 80; Neuchâtel Xamax FC - AS Saint- 1-2 10/07/2005 R2 Geneva Mazure 60, Étienne agg: 2-3 Feindouno 70 AS Saint-Étienne - Neuchâtel Sable 75; Lombardo 02/07/2005 R2 1-1 Saint-Etienne Xamax FC 57 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC La Chaux-de-Fonds - AS 2-1 La Chaux-de- Skiba 46, Trivellin 70; 16/09/1964 PR Saint-Étienne agg: 4-3 Fonds Guy 10 AS Saint-Étienne - FC La Chaux- Mekhloufi 18, Guy 59; 09/09/1964 PR 2-2 Saint-Etienne de-Fonds Bertschi 32, 43 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Basel 1893 6 3 2 1 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 10 3 4 3 11 12 AS Saint-Étienne 3 1 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 1 9 8 3 FC Basel 1893 - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 25 February 2016 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Match background FC Basel 1893 will be plotting a reversal of fortunes at home to AS Saint-Étienne as they lock horns with the French club trailing 3-2 after their UEFA Europa League round of 32 opener. • Basel rallied from 2-0 down to draw level at 2-2 in France, before Jean-Christophe Bahebeck handed the hosts a slender lead with 77 minutes gone. • Walter Samuel started Basel's fightback close to half-time, becoming the second oldest scorer in the UEFA Europa League aged 37 years and 332 days. He is surpassed only by Molde FK's Daniel Hestad, who scored at the age of 40 years and 98 days in this season's group stage. Previous meetings • The teams are meeting for the second time in UEFA competition. • Basel's record in ten matches against French opponents is W3 D4 L3 (W3 D2 L1 at home). • St-Étienne's record against Swiss opponents is W2 D2 L1 (W1 D0 L1 in Switzerland). Form guide • Basel have won only one of their last four European home games (W1 D2 L1). • St-Étienne have scored at least once in all five of their continental away matches this season. • Basel most recently played in the round of 32 in 2013/14, when they battled through to the last eight. Their best campaign in this competition was in 2012/13, when they progressed to the semi-finals, losing to eventual winners Chelsea FC. • St-Étienne were last in the round of 32 in 2008/09, when they eliminated Olympiacos FC en route to a round of 16 loss to Werder Bremen. The nearest they have come to winning this competition was reaching the quarter-finals in successive seasons, in 1979/80 and 1980/81. Trivia and links • The journey from Saint-Etienne to Basel is around 350km – the shortest trip for any of the teams playing in the round of 32. • The 2016 UEFA Europa League final will be held at Basel's St. Jakob-Park on 18 May. Two teams have played one- legged finals in their own stadium in this competition – Feyenoord beat Borussia Dortmund 3-2 in the 2002 showpiece in Rotterdam, but Sporting Clube de Portugal lost 3-1 to PFC CSKA Moskva in the 2005 decider at their Estadio José Alvalade. • Basel are one of five sides in the round of 32 who qualified for Europe this season as domestic champions along with Galatasaray AŞ (Turkey), FC Midtjylland (Denmark), Molde FK (Norway) and Olympiacos FC (Greece), though Molde have since lost their title to Rosenborg BK. • St-Étienne are one of four clubs to have made it all the way from the third qualifying round to the last 32 this term, along with Athletic Club, Borussia Dortmund and FC Krasnodar. • St-Étienne forward Robert Berić was a striker at NK Interblock in his native Slovenia while Basel counterpart Andraž Šporar was coming through the club's youth ranks. • Basel goalkeeper Germano Vailati briefly played in France for FC Metz in 2009. The coaches • Urs Fischer took charge of Basel this summer following Paulo Sousa's move to ACF Fiorentina. The former FC Zürich defender has already led Zürich (2011/12) and FC Thun (2013/14) into the UEFA Europa League group stage, but this is the first time he has taken a team to the knockout phase. • St-Étienne coach since 2009, Christophe Galtier led Les Verts to French League Cup success in 2012/13. A defender, he started his playing career at home-town club Olympique de Marseille. He returned to Marseille as a coach and worked as assistant to Alain Perrin at St-Étienne before getting the senior job. Penalty shoot-outs • Basel won their only previous UEFA penalty shoot-out: W 4-1 H v Tottenham Hotspur FC (2012/13 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals) • St-Étienne won their only previous UEFA penalty shoot-out: W 4-3 H v Kardemir Karabükspor (2014/15 UEFA Europa League play-offs) 4 FC Basel 1893 - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 25 February 2016 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Team facts FC Basel 1893 Formed: 1893 Nickname: Bebbi (local slang for Basel natives) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 18 (2015) Swiss Cup: 11 (2012) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2014/15: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2013/14: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2012/13: semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2011/12: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2010/11: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: UEFA Champions League group stage 2007/08: round of 32 2006/07: group stage 2005/06: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-0: Basel v SS Folgore 24/08/00, UEFA Cup qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: Fram Reykjavík v Basel 18/09/73, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Basel v FC Barcelona 22/10/08, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 7-0: FC Bayern München v Basel 13/03/12, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 7-0: Basel v SS Folgore (see above) • Biggest away win 1-5: SS Folgore v Basel 10/08/00, qualifying round first leg 0-4: SV Mattersburg v Basel 30/08/07, second qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Basel v Sporting Clube de Portugal 21/02/08, round of 32 second leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 (aet): Valencia CF v Basel 11/04/14, quarter-final second leg AS Saint-Étienne Formed: 1919 Nickname: Les Verts (The Greens) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup: (1976) 5 FC Basel 1893 - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 25 February 2016 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit St.