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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Kantrida - Rijeka Thursday 7 November 2013 21.05CET (21.05 local time) HNK Rijeka Group I - Matchday 4 Olympique Lyonnais Last updated 04/09/2014 16:15CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 7 Match-by-match lineups 8 Match officials 9 Legend 10 1 HNK Rijeka - Olympique Lyonnais Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Kantrida, Rijeka Previous meetings Execption in [/mediaservices/presskits/uefaeuropaleague/season=2014/round=2000469/day=4/session=1/match=2012564/chapters/previousmeetings.htm Slot [] ExceptionInfo [Error executing child request for /code/PressKits/prevMeetings.aspx.] Inner Exception [Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.] 2 HNK Rijeka - Olympique Lyonnais Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Kantrida, Rijeka Match background HNK Rijeka's UEFA Europa League dreams hang by a thread as they prepare for a rematch with unbeaten Olympique Lyonnais in Croatia in Group I. Previous meetings • Rijeka had scored 14 goals without reply in their previous two domestic fixtures going into matchday three, but could find no response in their first game against a French side after Clément Grenier put Lyon ahead on 65 minutes. • Lyon's only previous games against Croatian opposition were a pair of 2011/12 UEFA Champions League group stage meetings with GNK Dinamo Zagreb; they beat the Modri 2-0 at home and then recorded their biggest ever away win (7-1) in the return fixture despite trailing after 40 minutes in Zagreb. • Croatian clubs are without a victory in their last 12 games against French counterparts in UEFA competition (D3 L9), since NK Slaven Koprivnica recorded a pair of 1-0 wins against SC Bastia in the 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup. Match background • Rijeka sealed a first ever UEFA group stage campaign with an unexpected aggregate victory against VfB Stuttgart in this season's play-offs. • Rijeka suffered their heaviest European defeat when they went down 4-0 at Vitória SC on matchday one, but they remain unbeaten in four continental home games this season (W3 D1). • UEFA Champions League regulars, Lyon made their debut in the UEFA Europa League group stage last season having not played in the competition since 2002/03. They reached the round of 32 with the highest points tally of the season – 16 – but lost out to Tottenham Hotspur FC 3-2 on aggregate. • A 1-1 draw at home against Guimarães on matchday two did have one positive for Lyon: Maxime Gonalons' goal ended a barren spell in front of goal in Europe that had encompassed their previous three games. They have scored just once in three continental away fixtures this season. Team facts • Rijeka midfielder Nikola Pokrivač played for Dinamo in both legs of Lyon's only previous meetings with Croatian opposition. Right-back Ivan Tomečak also featured in the Stade de Gerland part of that 2011/12 UEFA Champions League tie. He was not involved in the return fixture, but Rijeka team-mate Mehmed Alispahić was. • Pokrivač is the only Rijeka player with Ligue 1 experience – he represented AS Monaco FC from winter 2008 to summer 2009, scoring twice in 32 league games. He featured in a draw and two defeats against Lyon. Coach information • Hired in February 2013, Slovenian coach Matjaž Kek led Rijeka to a third-placed finish at the end of last season and into Europe. Famous for taking Slovenia to the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals, Kek started and ended his playing career as a defender at NK Maribor – where his father played, and now his son – either side of a long spell in Austria. He returned home to Maribor for his first coaching roles, and more recently had a spell in Saudi Arabia with al-Ittihad. • Rémi Garde has spent much of his career with Lyon, taking over as first-team coach in June 2011. As a defensive midfielder, he captained Les Gones and won six caps for France, ending his career with spells at RC Strasbourg and Arsenal FC, who he helped to win the 1997/98 English double. After a spell as a pundit he joined Lyon's coaching staff, and was assistant to Paul Le Guen and Gérard Houllier before taking charge of the club's training centre and subsequently becoming head coach. 3 HNK Rijeka - Olympique Lyonnais Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Kantrida, Rijeka Team facts HNK Rijeka Formed: 1946 Nickname: Riječki bijeli (Rijeka Whites) UEFA club competition honours • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) National cup: 4 (2006) Ten-year record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition 2009/10: third qualifying round 2008/09: UEFA Intertoto Cup first round 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA competition 2006/07: first qualifying round 2005/06: second qualifying round 2004/05: second qualifying round 2003/04: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Rijeka v Prestatyn Town FC 18/07/13, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 0-3: Prestatyn Town FC v Rijeka 25/07/13, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Rijeka v FK Partizan 04/08/99, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Vitória SC v Rijeka 19/09/13, UEFA Europa League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 5-0: Rijeka v Prestatyn Town FC (see above) • Biggest away win 0-3: Prestatyn Town FC v Rijeka (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-2: Rijeka v FC Metalist Kharkiv 30/07/09, third qualifying round first leg 0-1 twice, most recently v RC Celta de Vigo 28/09/00, first round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Vitória SC v Rijeka (see above) Olympique Lyonnais Formed: 1950 Nickname: Les Gones (The Kids) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 1997 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 7 (2008) French Cup: 5 (2012) 4 HNK Rijeka - Olympique Lyonnais Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Kantrida, Rijeka League Cup: 1 (2001) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2012/13: round of 32 2011/12: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2010/11: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2009/10: UEFA Champions League semi-finals 2008/09: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2007/08: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2006/07: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2005/06: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2004/05: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2003/04: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-0: Lyon v FA Red Boys Differdange 17/09/74, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 1-7: GNK Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon 07/12/11, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest home defeat 2-5: Lyon v VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 05/11/74, UEFA Cup second round second leg 0-3 twice, most recently v FC Bayern München 27/04/10, UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0 three times, most recently v Real Madrid CF 18/10/11, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 7-0: Lyon v FA Red Boys Differdange (see above) • Biggest away win 1-4: FA Red Boys Differdange v Lyon 02/10/74, first round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 2-5: Lyon v VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: SV Werder Bremen v Lyon 07/12/99, third round second leg 5 HNK Rijeka - Olympique Lyonnais Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Kantrida, Rijeka Squad list 6 HNK Rijeka - Olympique Lyonnais Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Kantrida, Rijeka Fixtures and results Execption in [/mediaservices/presskits/uefaeuropaleague/season=2014/round=2000469/day=4/session=1/match=2012564/chapters/fixturesandresults.htm Slot [] ExceptionInfo [Error executing child request for /code/PressKits/fixturesAndResults.aspx.] Inner Exception [Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.] 7 HNK Rijeka - Olympique Lyonnais Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Kantrida, Rijeka Match-by-match lineups Execption in [/mediaservices/presskits/uefaeuropaleague/season=2014/round=2000469/day=4/session=1/match=2012564/chapters/matchbymatchlineups Slot [] ExceptionInfo [Error executing child request for /code/PressKits/matchByMatch.aspx.] Inner Exception [Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.] 8 HNK Rijeka - Olympique Lyonnais Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Kantrida, Rijeka Match officials Referee Alon Yefet (ISR) Assistant referees Danny Krasikow (ISR) , Nissan Davidy (ISR) Additional assistant referees Orel Grinfeld (ISR) , Ziv Adler (ISR) Fourth official Dvir Shimon (ISR) UEFA Delegate Michael Kirchner (GER) UEFA Referee observer Sergey Zuev (RUS) Referee UEFA Europa Name Date of birth League UEFA matches matches Alon Yefet 01/09/1972 31 80 UEFA Europa League matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match Date Competition Stage Home Away Result Venue 16/09/2004 UEL R1 FC Sochaux-Montbéliard Stabæk Fotball 4-0 Montbeliard 28/09/2006 UEL R1 AJ Auxerre GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3-1 Auxerre 23/11/2006 UEL GS Odense BK RC Lens 1-1 Odense 14/02/2007 UEL