UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS OSK Metalist Stadion - Kharkiv Thursday 14 February 2019 21.00CET (22.00 local time) FC Shakhtar Donetsk Round of 32, First leg Eintracht Frankfurt Last updated 30/08/2019 01:23CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 16 Legend 18 1 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 14 February 2019 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OSK Metalist Stadion, Kharkiv Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eintracht Frankfurt - FC 3-0 Frankfurt am Hölzenbein 4, Cha 41, 01/10/1980 R1 Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 3-1 Main 77 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Eintracht 17/09/1980 R1 1-0 Donetsk Sokolovski 24 (P) Frankfurt Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Shakhtar Donetsk 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 3 Eintracht Frankfurt 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 1 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kramarić 17, St. TSG 1899 Hoffenheim - FC 27/11/2018 GS 2-3 Sinsheim Zuber 40; Ismaily 14, Shakhtar Donetsk Taison 15, 90+2 Ismaily 27, Maycon FC Shakhtar Donetsk - TSG 1899 19/09/2018 GS 2-2 Kharkiv 81; Grillitsch 6, Hoffenheim Nordtveit 38 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Schalke 04 - FC Shakhtar 0-3 Marlos 27, Ferreyra 25/02/2016 R32 Gelsenkirchen Donetsk agg: 0-3 63, Kovalenko 77 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC 18/02/2016 R32 0-0 Lviv Schalke 04 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Müller 4 (P), 52, Boateng 34, Ribéry FC Bayern München - FC 7-0 11/03/2015 R16 Munich 49, Badstuber 63, Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 7-0 Lewandowski 75, Götze 87 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC Bayern 17/02/2015 R16 0-0 Lviv München UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Bayer 04 05/11/2013 GS 0-0 Donetsk Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Kiessling 22, 72, 23/10/2013 GS 4-0 Leverkusen Shakhtar Donetsk Rolfes 50 (P), Sam 57 2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 14 February 2019 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OSK Metalist Stadion, Kharkiv UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Felipe Santana 31, Borussia Dortmund - FC 3-0 05/03/2013 R16 Dortmund Götze 37, Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 5-2 Błaszczykowski 59 Srna 31, Douglas FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Borussia Costa 68; 13/02/2013 R16 2-2 Donetsk Dortmund Lewandowski 41, Hummels 87 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Luiz Adriano 25, FC Shakhtar Donetsk - SV 2-1 20/05/2009 F Istanbul Jádson 97 ET; Naldo Werder Bremen (aet) 35 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers VfB Stuttgart - FC Shakhtar Fernandinho 31, 03/11/2005 GS 0-2 Stuttgart Donetsk Marica 88 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Schalke 04 - FC Shakhtar 0-1 24/02/2005 R3 Gelsenkirchen Aghahowa 22 Donetsk agg: 1-2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC Brandão 86; Aílton 16/02/2005 R3 1-1 Donetsk Schalke 04 Gonçalves 7 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Koller 50, 68, Borussia Dortmund - FC 3-1 22/08/2001 QR3 Dortmund Amoroso 64; Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 5-1 Aghahowa 7 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Borussia 07/08/2001 QR3 0-2 Donetsk Ricken 35, Oliseh 73 Dortmund UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Berliner FC Dynamo - FC 1-1 Noack 11; Rogovskoi 29/09/1976 R1 Berlin Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 1-4 16 Rogovskoi 3, FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Berliner 15/09/1976 R1 3-0 Donetsk Sokolovski 75, FC Dynamo Starukhin 80 Eintracht Frankfurt - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - 1-0 03/11/1993 R2 Dnipropetrovsk Chubleba 37 Eintracht Frankfurt agg: 1-2 Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Dnipro Frankfurt am 19/10/1993 R2 2-0 Furtok 65, Okocha 77 Dnipropetrovsk Main 3 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 14 February 2019 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OSK Metalist Stadion, Kharkiv UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Dynamo Kyiv - Eintracht 2-1 Onyshchenko 1, 37; 05/11/1974 R2 Kyiv Frankfurt agg: 5-3 Rohrbach 46 Nickel 2, Körbel 64; Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Dynamo Frankfurt am Onyshchenko 32, 23/10/1974 R2 2-3 Kyiv Main Blokhin 83, Muntyan 87 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Shakhtar Donetsk 9 2 6 1 10 4 1 5 1 1 0 0 20 7 7 6 22 31 Eintracht Frankfurt 3 2 0 1 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 4 8 7 4 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 14 February 2019 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OSK Metalist Stadion, Kharkiv Match background After a flawless group stage with six wins out of six, Eintracht Frankfurt will hope to maintain their victory charge away to Shakhtar Donetsk, who have crossed over from the UEFA Champions League after finishing third in their section behind Manchester City and Lyon. • Shakhtar won just one of their six group games in the UEFA Champions League. A victory on matchday six at home to Lyon would have kept them in the competition at their opponents' expense, but they could only draw 1-1 in Kyiv. • It was plain sailing for Eintracht in UEFA Europa League Group H as they won home and away against Lazio, Apollon Limassol and 2017/18 runners-up Marseille, scoring 17 goals in the process. Previous meetings • The clubs were paired together in the 1980/81 UEFA Cup first round when Eintracht, in their first game as holders, lost 1-0 in Donetsk before recovering to win the Frankfurt return 3-0. • That was the first tie against Bundesliga opposition for Shakhtar, who at the time were representing the Soviet Union. The Pitmen's overall record against German clubs is W7 D7 L6, including a 2-1 win against Werder Bremen in the 2009 UEFA Cup final. At home they have drawn all of the last five such encounters, the latest 2-2 against Hoffenheim in this season's UEFA Champions League. • Eintracht's three visits to Ukraine have all ended in defeat but they have won two of the three ties, most recently against Dnipro in the 1993/94 UEFA Cup second round (2-0 home, 0-1 away). Form guide Shakhtar • Shakhtar qualified for this season's UEFA Champions League as winners of the Ukrainian championship, claiming the title for the 11th time in 2017/18, when they also won the Ukrainian Cup to complete a second successive domestic double. • The Ukrainian club's first two group stage encounters both finished 2-2, at home to Hoffenheim and away to Lyon, but they were then beaten heavily home (0-3) and away (0-6) by Manchester City. A last-gasp 3-2 success at Hoffenheim kept hopes alive only for the draw with Lyon to end their campaign. • This is the fifth time that Shakhtar have been involved in the UEFA Europa League round of 32, but they have won only one tie – against German opposition in 2015/16, Shakhtar following up a goalless draw against Schalke in Lviv with a 3-0 win in Gelsenkirchen in which Marlos and Viktor Kovalenko both scored. Shakhtar have lost at this stage against Fulham (2009/10), Viktoria Plzeň (2013/14) and Celta Vigo (2016/17) and have yet to win their home leg in the round of 32 (D2 L2). • Shakhtar failed to win any of their home games in this season's UEFA Champions League group stage (D2 L1), but have lost only two of their last 17 European games on Ukrainian soil (W11 D4). They are without a clean sheet, however, in the last eight. Eintracht • A dramatic 2017/18 German Cup final victory over Bundesliga champions Bayern München – 3-1 in Berlin – gave Eintracht their first major silverware in 30 years and secured their first European campaign in five. • The German club opened their Group H campaign with a 2-1 victory in Marseille and secured qualification by beating Lazio (4-1 home) and Apollon (2-0 home, 3-2 away), maintaining their winning streak against Marseille (4-0 home) and Lazio (2-1 away) to finish nine points clear of the Italian club. • Eintracht's only other European participation in the past dozen seasons came in 2013/14, when they successfully negotiated the UEFA Europa League play-offs and group stage, topping their section with 15 points, before going out on away goals to Porto in the round of 32 (2-2 away, 3-3 home). • The 1980 UEFA Cup winners won three of their five away fixtures in that 2013/14 campaign and have lost just one of their last 11 European games on the road (W6 D4). • Eintracht's overall record in the UEFA Europa League, home and away and including qualifying, is W13 D2 L1, the sole defeat coming at Maccabi Tel-Aviv (2-4) in November 2013. They have scored two or more goals in all but one of their last 17 European fixtures and have not drawn a blank since a 0-0 draw at home to Newcastle in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage.