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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Rajko Mitić - Belgrade Tuesday 18 September 2018 21.00CET (21.00 local time) FK Crvena zvezda Group C - Matchday 1 SSC Napoli Last updated 13/08/2019 23:45CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Head coach 8 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Competition facts 16 Team facts 17 Legend 19 1 FK Crvena zvezda - SSC Napoli Tuesday 18 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams FK Crvena zvezda - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FK Crvena zvezda - US Sassuolo 1-1 25/08/2016 PO Belgrade Katai 54; Berardi 28 Calcio agg: 1-4 US Sassuolo Calcio - FK Crvena Berardi 17, Politano 18/08/2016 PO 3-0 Reggio Emilia zvezda 41, Defrel 69 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Djokić 80; F. Inzaghi 22/08/2006 QR3 FK Crvena zvezda - AC Milan Belgrade agg: 1-3 29, Seedorf 78 09/08/2006 QR3 AC Milan - FK Crvena zvezda 1-0 Milan F. Inzaghi 22 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Žigić 37, 86, Purović 01/12/2005 GS FK Crvena zvezda - AS Roma 3-1 Belgrade 77; Nonda 23 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Bošković 69; Chiesa 14/11/2002 R2 FK Crvena zvezda - SS Lazio Belgrade agg: 1-2 77 31/10/2002 R2 SS Lazio - FK Crvena zvezda 1-0 Rome Fiore 10 AC Chievo Verona - FK Crvena 0-2 Gvozdenović 70, D. 03/10/2002 R1 Verona zvezda agg: 0-2 Milovanović 86 FK Crvena zvezda - AC Chievo 19/09/2002 R1 0-0 Belgrade Verona European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Mihajlović 11; FK Crvena zvezda - UC Katanec 33, 01/04/1992 R3 (GS) 1-3 Sofia Sampdoria Vasilijevic 41 (og), Mancini 75 UC Sampdoria - FK Crvena 27/11/1991 R3 (GS) 2-0 Genoa Mancini 7, Vialli 73 zvezda European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 (Rep) Stojković 39; Van 10/11/1988 R2 (Rep) FK Crvena zvezda - AC Milan Belgrade (aet, 2-4 pens) Basten 35 26/10/1988 R2 AC Milan - FK Crvena zvezda 1-1 Milan Virdis 48; Stojković 47 2 FK Crvena zvezda - SSC Napoli Tuesday 18 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Djurovski 16 (P), FK Crvena zvezda - Hellas 2-3 Djurovski 58; 28/09/1983 R1 Belgrade Verona FC agg: 2-4 Sacchetti 34, Galderisi 64, 82 Hellas Verona FC - FK Crvena 14/09/1983 R1 1-0 Verona Fanna 36 (P) zvezda European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FK Crvena zvezda - FC 0-1 18/03/1981 QF Belgrade Muraro 13 Internazionale Milano agg: 1-2 FC Internazionale Milano - FK 04/03/1981 QF 1-1 Milan Caso 45+2; Repčić 75 Crvena zvezda European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers ACF Fiorentina - FK Crvena 0-0 18/04/1957 SF Florence zvezda agg: 1-0 FK Crvena zvezda - ACF 03/04/1957 SF 0-1 Belgrade Prini 88 Fiorentina SSC Napoli - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 30/09/1981 R1 FK Radnicki Niš - SSC Napoli Nis agg: 2-2 ag Damiani 70 (P), 16/09/1981 R1 SSC Napoli - FK Radnicki Niš 2-2 Naples Musella 87; Stoiljkovic 72, Aleksic 80 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers QF (Rep4 Jarbas 23; Samardžić 03/04/1963 SSC Napoli - OFK Beograd 1-3 (Rep) Marseille ) 19, 83, Popov 53 Jarbas 12, Fanello 56, 3-1 20/03/1963 QF SSC Napoli - OFK Beograd Naples Mariani 65; Samardžić agg: 3-3 ag 43 Samardžić 78, Popov 06/02/1963 QF OFK Beograd - SSC Napoli 2-0 Belgrade 88 Home Away Final Neutral Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FK Crvena zvezda 9 1 4 4 9 1 3 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 19 2 7 10 14 24 SSC Napoli 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 1 2 2 6 8 3 FK Crvena zvezda - SSC Napoli Tuesday 18 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade Match background Champions of Europe in 1990/91, Crvena zvezda kick off their debut UEFA Champions League group campaign with a home match against Napoli, who are out to make an impression in the competition having bowed out early last season. • This is the teams' first fixture, and Napoli's first trip to Serbia in almost 40 years, while Crvena zvezda will be aiming to improve their record against Italian clubs, with fixtures against Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool to come. Furthermore, they can become the first Serbian club to win a game in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final. Form guide Crvena zvezda • Champions of Serbia in 2017/18, when they reached the UEFA Europa League round of 32, Crvena zvezda came through four qualifying rounds to reach the group stage – the first time they had successfully negotiated the UEFA Champions League preliminaries at the seventh attempt. • Crvena zvezda kicked off this season in the first qualifying round, where they got the better of Latvia's Spartaks Jūrmala 2-0 on aggregate. Lithuania's Sūduva were beaten 5-0 over two legs in the second qualifying round, before extra time secured a 2-1 away win at Slovakia's Spartak Trnava in the third qualifying round second leg to complete a 3-2 aggregate victory. They came from 2-0 down to draw at Salzburg in the play-off second leg, going through on away goals after a 2-2 aggregate draw. • Crvena zvezda have lost only two of their last 17 European games (W7 D8). • The Belgrade club are six European home matches unbeaten (W3 D3) since a 1-0 reverse against Arsenal in last season's UEFA Europa League group stage. That is their only defeat in their last 13 European home matches (W7 D5). They have conceded just five goals in those 13 fixtures – and never more than one in any game. • Crvena zvezda have won only two of their 19 fixtures against Italian clubs, most recently a 3-1 home win against Roma in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage – their sole home success. Their record home and away since then is D1 L3. • This is only the third season Serbia has had a team in the group stage, after Partizan's participations in 2003/04 and 2010/11. Napoli • Serie A runners-up in 2017/18, Napoli are in the group stage for the fifth time – all in the last eight seasons. They reached the round of 16 in 2011/12 and 2016/17. • The Italian club finished third in their section last season – losing all three away games 2-1 – and went on to the UEFA Europa League round of 32, where they lost to RB Leipzig. • Napoli have lost their last four away matches in the UEFA Champions League proper. • The Naples outfit have won only one of their five matches against Serbian opposition (D2 L2) – a 3-1 home win against OFK Beograd in the 1962/63 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final second leg, although they went on to lose the replay by the same score. Their last fixtures came in the 1981/82 UEFA Cup first round, when they lost on away goals to Radnicki Niš (2-2 home, 0-0 away). Links and trivia • Napoli's Serbian centre-back Nikola Maksimović was at Crvena zvezda in 2012, scoring once in his 25 appearances. • Have played in Italy: Nenad Krstičić (Sampdoria, 2008–16, Bologna 2014/15 loan) Marko Marin (Fiorentina 2014) Richmond Boakye (Genoa 2010–12, Sassuolo 2011/12 & 2012/13 loans, Juventus 2012–14, Atalanta 2014/15, Latina 2016–17) • International team-mates: Nikola Maksimović & Nenad Krstičić, Milan Rodić (Serbia) Latest news Crvena zvezda • Summer transfers In: Srdjan Babić (Real Sociedad), Lorenzo Ebecilio (APOEL), Dejan Meleg (Kayserispor), Rashid Sumaila (al- Qadisiya), Nikola Stojiljković (Braga), Veljko Simić (Zemun), Miloš Degenek (Yokohama), Zoran Popović (Bodø/Glimt), Dušan Jovančić (Vojvodina), Milan Jevtović (Antalyaspor), Milos Čupić (OFK Beograd)*, Jonathan Cafú 4 FK Crvena zvezda - SSC Napoli Tuesday 18 September 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade (Bordeaux), Damjan Gojkov (Bežanija)*, Andrija Luković (Voždovac)*, Draško Djordjević (Bežanija)*, Filip Bainović (Rad)*, Stefan Cvetković (Grafičar), Jovan Vićić (Drina Zvornik)*, Vanja Vučićević (Spartak Subotica)*, Milan Senić (Grafičar)*, Aleksandar Stanković (Grafičar)*, Lazar Romanić (Borac)*, Zé Marcos (Rad)*, Milan Pavkov (Radnički Niš)* Out: Aleksandar Pešić (Ittihad), Uroš Račić (Valencia), Luka Adžić (Anderlecht), Abraham Frimpong (Ferencváros), Mitchell Donald (Malatyaspor), Damjan Gojkov (Vojvodina), Filip Bainović (Rad), Draško Djordjević (al-Mojzel), Damien Le Tallec (Montpellier), Vanja Vučićević (Samara), Aleksandar Stanković (Grafičar), Jovan Vićić (Mačva), Andrija Luković (Voždovac), Miloš Čupić (Zlatibor), Dušan Andjelković (retired) Damir Kahriman (released), Milan Senić (released), Srdjan Babić (Real Sociedad), Luka Ilić (Manchester City) *Not in UEFA Champions League squad • Crvena zvezda are 30 matches unbeaten in all competitions (W24 D6), since the 1-0 loss at CSKA Moskva in last season's UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg, although they did lose on penalties in the Serbian Cup against Mačva on 14 March after a 0-0 draw.