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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2014/15 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 0-2) José Alvalade - Lisbon Thursday 26 February 2015 Sporting Clube de 21.05CET (20.05 local time) VfL Wolfsburg Portugal Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 22/07/2015 23:34CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 Sporting Clube de Portugal - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 26 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit José Alvalade, Lisbon Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers VfL Wolfsburg - Sporting Clube 19/02/2015 R32 2-0 Wolfsburg Dost 46, 63 de Portugal Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Sporting Clube de Portugal 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 VfL Wolfsburg 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 Sporting Clube de Portugal - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sarr 26, Jefferson 52, Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC Nani 72, Slimani 05/11/2014 GS 4-2 Lisbon Schalke 04 90+1; Slimani 17 (og), Aogo 88 Obasi 34, Huntelaar 51, Höwedes 60, FC Schalke 04 - Sporting Clube 21/10/2014 GS 4-3 Gelsenkirchen Choupo-Moting 90+3 de Portugal (P); Nani 16, Adrien Silva 64 (P), 78 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Hertha BSC Berlin - Sporting 16/12/2009 GS 1-0 Berlin Kačar 70 Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal - 01/10/2009 GS 1-0 Lisbon Adrien Silva 18 Hertha BSC Berlin UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Podolski 7, 34, Polga 39 (og), FC Bayern München - Sporting 7-1 Schweinsteiger 43, 10/03/2009 R16 Munich Clube de Portugal agg: 12-1 Van Bommel 74, Klose 82 (P), T. Müller 90; João Moutinho 42 Ribéry 42, 63 (P), Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC 25/02/2009 R16 0-5 Lisbon Klose 57, Toni 84, Bayern München 90+1 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Bayern München - Sporting 31/10/2006 GS 0-0 Munich Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC 18/10/2006 GS 0-1 Lisbon Schweinsteiger 19 Bayern München 2 Sporting Clube de Portugal - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 26 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit José Alvalade, Lisbon UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sporting Clube de Portugal - 07/11/2000 GS 0-0 Lisbon Bayer 04 Leverkusen Ramelow 65, Brdaric Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Sporting 20/09/2000 GS 3-2 Leverkusen 73, Neuville 77; André Clube de Portugal Cruz 12, Sá Pinto 78 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Emerson 16, 73, Rink Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Sporting 05/11/1997 GS 4-1 Leverkusen 84, Frýdek 90; Hadji Clube de Portugal 44 Sporting Clube de Portugal - Beinlich 70, Emerson 22/10/1997 GS 0-2 Lisbon Bayer 04 Leverkusen 82 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1. FC Köln - Sporting Clube de 2-0 19/03/1986 QF Cologne K. Allofs 7, Bein 37 Portugal agg: 3-1 Sporting Clube de Portugal - 1. Meade 55; K. Allofs 04/03/1986 QF 1-1 Lisbon FC Köln 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1. FC Kaiserslautern - Sporting 2-0 Bongartz 26, Neues 07/11/1979 R2 Kaiserslautern Clube de Portugal agg: 3-1 63 Sporting Clube de Portugal - 1. Manoel 47; Bongartz 24/10/1979 R2 1-1 Lisbon FC Kaiserslautern 52 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Pommerenke 9, 1. FC Magdeburg - Sporting 2-1 24/04/1974 SF Magdeburg Sparwasser 70; Clube de Portugal agg: 3-2 Marinho 78 Sporting Clube de Portugal - 1. Manaca 76; 10/04/1974 SF 1-1 Lisbon FC Magdeburg Sparwasser 62 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC 1-2 Baltasar 78; Scheitler 04/11/1970 R2 Lisbon Carl Zeiss Jena agg: 2-4 30, Ducke 37 FC Carl Zeiss Jena - Sporting Kurbjuweit 51, Vogel 21/10/1970 R2 2-1 Jena Clube de Portugal 88; Marinho 67 VfL Wolfsburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country 3 Sporting Clube de Portugal - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 26 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit José Alvalade, Lisbon UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Meyong 6, 49; Džeko 27/11/2008 GS SC Braga - VfL Wolfsburg 2-3 Braga 24, Misimović 83 (P), 90+4 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Sporting Clube de Portugal 10 2 4 4 11 0 1 10 0 0 0 0 21 2 5 14 18 44 VfL Wolfsburg 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 5 2 4 Sporting Clube de Portugal - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 26 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit José Alvalade, Lisbon Match background Sporting Clube de Portugal must continue their improved home form against German opposition if they are to be in with a chance of overturning a two-goal first-leg deficit against a VfL Wolfsburg outfit possessing one of Europe's most in-form forwards, Bas Dost. Previous meetings • The sides met for the first time in European competition in the first leg, where Dost continued his remarkable scoring form to ensure a 2-0 win for Wolfsburg. A second-half pair for the Dutchman made it ten goals in his last six outings in all competitions. • Sporting failed to win in their first eight home games against German sides (D4 L4), but have now won their last two home fixtures against Bundesliga clubs. • Sporting have faced other German opponents this season, losing 4-3 away and winning 4-2 at home to FC Schalke 04 in the UEFA Champions League group stage. • Wolfsburg triumphed 3-2 at SC Braga in their only previous European game against Portuguese opposition. Form guide • Sporting have lost just once in their last 19 European home games – 1-0 to Chelsea FC in this season's UEFA Champions League group stage. • Sporting have not lost any of their 19 UEFA Europa League home games, group stage to final – a competition record sequence. • Wolfsburg's away games this season have brought plenty of goals; they lost 4-1 at Everton FC, then won 4-2 at FC Krasnodar and 3-0 at LOSC Lille. Trivia and links • Wolfsburg boast Portuguese talent in the form of forward Vierinha, while their Swiss goalkeeper Diego Benaglio also played in Portugal, representing CD Nacional from 2005 until 2008, when he joined Wolfsburg. • Sporting attacker Diego Capel, who turned 27 on 16 February, can make his 50th UEFA club competition appearance in the second leg. The coaches • Lisbon-born Sporting coach Marco Silva spent the best years of his career as a left-back at Estoril Praia, where he moved swiftly into coaching after hanging up his boots in 2011. After winning promotion to the Liga in his first term, fifth and fourth-placed finishes in subsequent campaigns prompted Sporting to select Silva as their new boss when Leonardo Jardim left for AS Monaco FC in summer 2014. • At one stage a lower-league midfielder and trainee policeman, Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking is back in Europe for the first time since steering second-tier TSV Alemannia Aachen into the 2004/05 UEFA Cup group phase. More recently, he has coached Hannover 96 and 1. FC Nürnberg, taking up his current post in December 2012. 5 Sporting Clube de Portugal - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 26 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit José Alvalade, Lisbon Team facts Sporting Clube de Portugal Formed: 1906 Nickname: Leões (Lions) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup: (2005) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1964 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 18 (2002) Portuguese Cup: 15 (2008) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: group stage 2011/12: semi-finals 2010/11: round of 32 2009/10: round of 16 (having transferred from the UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2008/09: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2007/08: quarter-finals (having transferred from the UEFA Champions League group stage) 2006/07: UEFA Champions League group stage 2005/06: first round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2004/05: runners-up Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 16-1: Sporting v APOEL FC 13/11/63, European Cup Winners' Cup second round first leg • Biggest away win 0-9: ÍA Akranes v Sporting 17/09/86, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Sporting v FC Bayern München 25/02/09, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg • Heaviest away defeat 7-1: FC Bayern München v Sporting 10/03/09, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 7-0: Sporting v CS Politehnica Timisoara 24/10/90, second round first leg • Biggest away win 0-9: ÍA Akranes v Sporting (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Sporting v Gençlerbirligi SK 27/11/03, second round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: Celtic FC v Sporting 02/11/83, second round second leg VfL Wolfsburg Formed: 1945 Nickname: Die Wölfe (The Wolves) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) 6 Sporting Clube de Portugal - VfL Wolfsburg Thursday 26 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit José Alvalade, Lisbon League title: 1 (2009) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA club competition 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: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group