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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2015/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS St. Jakob-Park - Basel Thursday 1 October 2015 19.00CET (19.00 local time) FC Basel 1893 Group I - Matchday 2 KKS Lech Poznań Last updated 01/10/2015 14:44CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Match officials 14 Legend 15 1 FC Basel 1893 - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Basel 1893 - KKS Lech 1-0 05/08/2015 QR3 Basel B. Bjarnason 90+1 Poznań agg: 4-1 Thomalla 36; M. Lang KKS Lech Poznań - FC Basel 29/07/2015 QR3 1-3 Poznan 34, Janko 77, Callà 1893 90+2 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 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 1 KKS Lech Poznań 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 4 FC Basel 1893 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Pawel Brożek 10, 83, 30/11/2006 GS Wisła Kraków - FC Basel 1893 3-1 Krakow Jean Paulista 71; Petrić 9 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kampka 38; Zuffi 26, 01/07/1995 GS Górnik Zabrze - FC Basel 1893 1-2 Zabrze 40 KKS Lech Poznań - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Grasshopper Club Zürich - KKS 0-0 28/08/2008 2QR St Gallen Lech Poznań agg: 0-6 Rengifo 4, KKS Lech Poznań - Grasshopper Lewandowski 14, 56, 14/08/2008 2QR 6-0 Poznan Club Zürich Vallori 76 (og), Injac 84, Peszko 88 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 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 1 7 5 KKS Lech Poznań 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 7 4 2 FC Basel 1893 - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Match background FC Basel 1893 have already knocked KKS Lech Poznań out of one competition this season and will look to deal them another blow in UEFA Europa League Group I. Previous meetings • Basel and Lech met in this season's UEFA Champions League third qualifying round – Basel won 3-1 in Poznan and 1-0 at home. • The teams for that latter meeting on 5 August were: Basel: Vaclík, Lang, Bjarnason, Delgado (Zuffi 77), Suchý, Safari (Traoré 89), Janko (Embolo 70), Kuzmanović, Høegh, Elneny, Callà. Lech: Burić, Douglas, Trałka, Linetti, Pawłowski, Jevtic (Thomalla 73), Dudka, Hämäläinen (Robak 84), Ceesay, Formella (Lovrencsics 69), Kamiński. • That was Basel's first home game against Polish opponents – their three fixtures in Poland ended W2 L1. • Lech's only previous tie against a Swiss side was a 6-0 aggregate defeat of Grasshopper Club Zürich in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round, with all the goals scored in the home leg – including two for a young Robert Lewandowski. Basel midfielder Davide Callà was on the losing team in that game. Form guide • Basel are unbeaten in Europe this season (W3 D2), but bowed out of the UEFA Champions League play-offs on away goals following 2-2 and 1-1 draws against Maccabi Tel Aviv FC. • Lech have not conceded in three European contests (W2 D1) since their last encounter with Basel. • Basel have featured in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage six times; they have made it to the knockout stage on four occasions and been eliminated twice. • Lech progressed to the round of 32 in their only two previous UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns. Trivia and links • The journey from Poznan to Basel is around 850km. • The 2016 UEFA Europa League final will be played at Basel's St. Jakob-Park on 18 May. • Lech's Swiss midfielder Darko Jevtic was signed from Basel after a successful loan spell. The 22-year-old was born in Basel and came through the youth ranks at the Swiss club. • Basel and Lech are two of the ten domestic champions in this season's group stage, along with KF Skenderbëu (Albania), Qarabağ FK (Albania), APOEL FC (Cyprus), FC Viktoria Plzeň (Czech Republic), FC Midtjylland (Denmark), FK Partizan (Serbia), Molde FK (Norway) and Celtic FC (Scotland). The coaches • Urs Fischer took charge of Basel this summer following Paulo Sousa's move to ACF Fiorentina. The one-time FC Zürich defender has already led Zürich (2011/12) and FC Thun (2013/14) into the UEFA Europa League group stage, though neither side made it to the knockout phase. • Maciej Skorża guided Lech to the Polish title in his first season in charge, 2014/15, having previously won the crown twice as coach of Wisła Kraków. He was just 32 when he became the first coach to steer a Polish side into the UEFA Cup group stage, his KS Amica Wronki squad qualifying for the first edition in 2004/05. 3 FC Basel 1893 - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 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 KKS Lech Poznań Formed: 1922 Nickname: Kolejorz (Railwaymen) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • none 4 FC Basel 1893 - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 7 (2015) Polish Cup: 5 (2009) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2014/15: third qualifying round 2013/14: third qualifying round 2012/13: third qualifying round 2011/12: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2010/11: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2009/10: play-offs 2008/09: round of 32 2007/08: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2006/07: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round 2005/06: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: Lech v Grasshopper Club Zürich 29/08/08, UEFA Cup second qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 1-6: Fredrikstad FK v Lech 30/07/09, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Lech v FC Spartak Moskva 20/10/93, UEFA Champions League second round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Olympique de Marseille v Lech 07/11/90, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round second leg 5-0: MSV Duisburg v Lech 13/09/78, UEFA Cup first round first leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 6-0: Lech v Grasshopper Club Zürich (see above) • Biggest away win 1-6: Fredrikstad FK v Lech (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 2-5: Lech v MSV Duisburg 27/09/78, first round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: MSV Duisburg v Lech (see above) 5 FC Basel 1893 - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Squad list FC Basel 1893 Current season All-time UCL UEL League UEL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Tomáš Vaclík CZE 29/03/1989 26 - 4 - 1 - 10 - 8 - 26 - 18 Germano Vailati SUI 30/08/1980 35 - - - - - - - 4 - 9 - 23 Mirko Salvi SUI 14/02/1994 21 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 3 Adama Traoré CIV 03/02/1990 25 - 1 - - - 6 1 - - 1 - 4 Philipp Degen SUI 15/02/1983 32 - 1 - - - 5 - 29 - 44 1 5 Michael Lang SUI 08/02/1991 24 - 4 1 1 - 8 2 1 - 13 2 6 Walter Samuel ARG 23/03/1978 37 - 1 - - - 3 - 18 3 97 6 15 Ivan Ivanov BUL 25/02/1988 27 - - - - - - - 11 - 36 3 16 Manuel Akanji SUI 19/07/1995 20 - - - - - 1 - - - - - 17 Marek Suchý CZE 29/03/1988 27 - 4 - 1 - 9 1 31 - 78 1 19 Behrang Safari SWE 09/02/1985 30 - 4 - - - 3 - 19 - 68 - 26 Daniel Høegh DEN 06/01/1991 24 - 3 - 1 - 9 - 5 - 11 - Midfielders 7 Luca Zuffi SUI 27/03/1990 25 - 4 1 1 - 10 2 5 - 20 4 8 Birkir Bjarnason ISL 27/05/1988 27 - 4 1 1 1 8 1 5 1 9 2 10 Matías Delgado ARG 15/12/1982 32 - 2 1 1 - 7 4 27 10 59 17 22 Zdravko Kuzmanović SRB 22/09/1987 28 - 2 - - - 7 - 41 5 66 9 28 Robin Huser SUI 24/01/1998 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 33 Mohamed Elneny EGY 11/07/1992 23 - 4 - 1 1 9 1 15 1 33 1 34 Taulant Xhaka ALB 28/03/1991 24 - 2 - 1 - 9 - 6 - 26 - 39 Davide Callà SUI 06/10/1984 30 - 3 1 1 - 6 2 1 - 20 3 77 Jean-Paul Boëtius NED 22/03/1994 21 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 6 1 11 1 Forwards 11 Shkelzen Gashi ALB 15/07/1988 27 - 3 - - - 7 3 1 - 18 2 14 Yōichirō Kakitani JPN 03/01/1990 25 - - - - - 4 1 - - 3 - 21 Marc Janko AUT 25/06/1983 32 - 3 1 1 - 7 6 19 10 40 15 36 Breel Embolo SUI 14/02/1997 18 - 4 1 1 - 7 3 5 - 17 2 38 Albian Ajeti SUI 26/02/1997 18 - 1 - - - 2 - 1 - 2 - Coach - Urs Fischer SUI 20/02/1966 49 - 4 - 1 - - - 14 - 28 - 6 FC Basel 1893 - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit St.