UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 5-2) KRC Genk Arena - Genk Thursday 16 March 2017 KRC Genk 19.00CET (19.00 local time) KAA Gent Round of 16, Second leg Last updated 16/03/2017 10:58CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 13 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 KRC Genk - KAA Gent Thursday 16 March 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit KRC Genk Arena, Genk Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kalu 27, K. Coulibaly 61; Malinovskiy 21, 09/03/2017 R16 KAA Gent - KRC Genk 2-5 Ghent Colley 33, Samatta 41, 72, Uronen 45+2 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA KRC Genk 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 2 KAA Gent 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 5 KRC Genk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country KRC Genk have not played against a club from their opponents' country KAA Gent - Record versus clubs from opponents' country KAA Gent have not played against a club from their opponents' country 2 KRC Genk - KAA Gent Thursday 16 March 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit KRC Genk Arena, Genk Match background A distance of 125km and a letter of the alphabet is not all that separates Genk and Gent as they prepare for their all- Belgian UEFA Europa League decider, the Blue-and-Whites having secured an impressive 5-2 away win in the first leg. • Suspended Gent: Anderson Esiti • Misses next game if booked Genk: Tino-Sven Sušić Gent: Kalifa Coulibaly, Renato Neto Previous meetings • Gent v Genk is only the second all-Belgian tie in UEFA competition history; Mechelen defeated Anderlecht 3-0 on aggregate in the other, a 1988/89 European Cup Winners' Cup second-round encounter. • Genk's record against Gent in Belgian league meetings is W27 D10 L19. The sides registered a win each in their two Belgian Cup fixtures. Form guide • Genk have won all seven European home games this season, conceding just once in the process. • Gent need to win by a three-goal margin to make it to the quarter-finals; they last scored three in a UEFA away match in this season's play-offs, beating Albania's Shkëndija 4-0. • Genk are in the last 16 of a major UEFA competition for the first time, and won for the first time in a springtime UEFA fixture in the round of 32 second leg against Astra Giurgiu. • Gent reached the UEFA Champions League round of 16 last year, losing to Wolfsburg. Their best UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League campaign came in 1991/92, when they were eliminated by Ajax in the quarter-finals. Links and trivia • The journey from Ghent to Genk is around 125km. • Former team-mates Daniel Miličević (Gent) & Sebastien Dewaest (Genk) – Charleroi, 2013–14 Kalifa Coulibaly (Gent) & Sebastien Dewaest (Genk) – Charleroi, 2014–15 Lovre Kalinić (Gent) & Tino-Sven Sušić (Genk) – Hajduk Split, 2012–16 • In addition, Gent's Miličević and Genk's Sušić are international team-mates with Bosnia and Herzegovina. • Genk are the only side to have progressed from the second qualifying round of this season's competition to the round of 16; APOEL and København have had similarly long campaigns, having started out in the equivalent UEFA Champions League round. • Two of 12 Swedish players involved in the round of 16, Gent's Jacob Rinne and Emir Kujovic are dreaming of playing in the UEFA Europa League final in Stockholm. • Belgium, with three clubs, is the best-represented country in the last 16. Only Germany and Russia, with two apiece, also have more than one representative. The coaches • Peter Maes took Genk to the round of 32 but was dismissed in late December after a disappointing run of league results. • Genk's new boss is Albert Stuivenberg. Once a Feyenoord trainee, he later ran the club's academy, and led the Netherlands to UEFA European Under-17 Championship successes in 2011 and 2012. He was Louis van Gaal's assistant at Manchester United. • Hein Vanhaezebrouck guided Gent to the Belgian title in 2014/15 and steered them to the UEFA Champions League round of 16 last term. He established his credentials during two periods in the dugout of home-town club Kortrijk, for whom he had also played. • Vanhaezebrouck was also coach of Genk from July to November 2009. Penalty shoot-outs • Genk have won both of their previous UEFA penalty shoot-outs: W 4-2 A v Budućnost Podgorica (2016/17 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round) W 4-1 H v Maccabi Haifa (2011/12 UEFA Champions League play-offs) 3 KRC Genk - KAA Gent Thursday 16 March 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit KRC Genk Arena, Genk • Gent's record in two UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W1 L1: L 4-3 H v Vardar (2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup second round) W 4-1 A v Lausanne (1991/92 UEFA Cup first round) 4 KRC Genk - KAA Gent Thursday 16 March 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit KRC Genk Arena, Genk Team facts KRC Genk Formed: 1988 Nickname: Genkies UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • none Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (2011) Belgian Cup: 4 (2013) Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: round of 32 2012/13: round of 32 2011/12: UEFA Champions League group stage 2010/11: play-offs 2009/10: play-offs 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA competition 2007/08: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Genk v Duisburg 01/10/98, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: B36 Tórshavn v Genk 21/06/97, UEFA Intertoto Cup group stage • Heaviest home defeat 2-5: Genk v Werder Bremen 09/11/00, UEFA Cup second round second leg 0-3: Genk v Porto 19/08/10, UEFA Europa League play-offs first leg • Heaviest away defeat 7-0: Valencia v Genk 23/11/11, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 5-2: Genk v FH Hafnarfjördur 29/08/13, play-off second leg 3-0: Genk v Videoton 20/09/12, group stage 3-0: Genk v Liepājas Metalurgs 25/08/05, second qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 1-5: Inter Turku v Genk 29/07/10, third qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 2-5: Genk v Werder Bremen (see above) 0-3: Genk v Porto (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-1: Werder Bremen v Genk 24/10/00, second round first leg 5 KRC Genk - KAA Gent Thursday 16 March 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit KRC Genk Arena, Genk KAA Gent Formed: 1864 Nickname: De Buffalos (The Buffalos) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Intertoto Cup: (2006), (2007) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League titles: 1 (2015) Belgian Cup: 3 (2010) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2015/16: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: third qualifying round 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2009/10: third qualifying round 2008/09: second qualifying round 2007/08: UEFA Intertoto Cup third round 2006/07: UEFA Intertoto Cup third round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Gent v Viitorul Constanța 28/07/16, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 0-4: Cliftonville v Gent 14/07/07, UEFA Intertoto Cup second round second leg • Biggest home defeat 1-7: Gent v Roma 06/08/09, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round second leg 0-6: Gent v Ajax 12/09/00, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Biggest away defeat 7-1: Paris Saint-Germain v Gent 01/08/01, UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-final second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 5-0: Gent v Viitorul Constanța (see above) • Biggest away win 0-4: Shkëndija v Gent 25/08/16, play-off second leg • Biggest home defeat 1-7: Gent v Roma (see above) 0-6: Gent v Ajax (see above) • Biggest away defeat 5-0: Shakhtar Donetsk v Gent 20/10/16, group stage 6 KRC Genk - KAA Gent Thursday 16 March 2017 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit KRC Genk Arena, Genk Squad list KRC Genk Current season All-time QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 30 Nordin Jackers BEL 05/09/1997 19 - - - 1 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 36 Olivier Vliegen BEL 07/02/1999 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 40 Gaetan Coucke BEL 03/11/1998 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 70 Mathew Ryan AUS 08/04/1992 24 - - - 3 - 6 - 19 - 27 - Defenders 2 Jakub Brabec CZE 06/08/1992 24 - - - 8 1 18 - 24 4 31 6 3 Bojan Nastić SRB 06/07/1994 22 - - - 4 - 8 - 4 - 17 - 4 Omar Colley GAM 24/10/1992 24 - 2 - 8 1 26 2 8 1 10 1 5 Sandy Walsh NED 14/03/1995 22 - 5 - 4 - 12 - 5 - 10 - 6 Sebastien Dewaest BEL 27/05/1991 25 - 6 1 2 - 15 - 2 - 12 1 15 Dries Wouters BEL 28/01/1997 20 - 3 - - - 7 - - - 3 - 21 Jere Uronen FIN 13/07/1994 22 - 6 - 4 1 20 - 9 1 21 1 23 Rubin Seigers BEL 11/01/1998 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 29 Lorenzo Matarrese BEL 01/02/1999 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 32 Christophe Janssens BEL 09/03/1998 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 33 Kino Delorge BEL 05/01/1998 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 41 Timoty Castagne BEL 05/12/1995 21 - 2 - 7 1 24 - 7 1 9 1 Midfielders 8 Bennard Kumordzi GHA 21/03/1985 31 - 3 - 4 - 9 - 24 1 33 1 9 Jean-Paul Boëtius NED 22/03/1994 22 - - - 3 - 6 - 12 2 17 2 16 Dante Vanzeir BEL 16/04/1998 18 - - - - - 1 - - -