UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2015/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 1-0) BayArena - Leverkusen Thursday 25 February 2016 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Sporting Clube de Round of 32, Second leg Portugal Last updated 02/08/2016 00:18CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 6 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Match officials 19 Legend 20 1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Sporting Clube de Portugal Thursday 25 February 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sporting Clube de Portugal - 18/02/2016 R32 0-1 Lisbon Bellarabi 26 Bayer 04 Leverkusen UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sporting Clube de Portugal - 07/11/2000 GS1 0-0 Lisbon Bayer 04 Leverkusen Ramelow 65, Brdaric Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Sporting 20/09/2000 GS1 3-2 Leverkusen 73, Neuville 77; André Clube de Portugal Cruz 12, Sá Pinto 78 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Emerson 16, 73, Rink Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Sporting 05/11/1997 GS 4-1 Leverkusen 84, Frýdek 90; Hadji Clube de Portugal 44 Sporting Clube de Portugal - Beinlich 70, Emerson 22/10/1997 GS 0-2 Lisbon Bayer 04 Leverkusen 82 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 2 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 1 0 10 3 Sporting Clube de Portugal 3 0 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 4 3 10 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 09/12/2014 GS SL Benfica - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-0 Lisbon Kiessling 25, Son Bayer 04 Leverkusen - SL Heung-Min 34, Hakan 01/10/2014 GS 3-1 Leverkusen Benfica Çalhanoğlu 64 (P); Salvio 62 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers SL Benfica - Bayer 04 2-1 John 60, Matić 77; 21/02/2013 R32 Lisbon Leverkusen agg: 3-1 Schürrle 75 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - SL 14/02/2013 R32 0-1 Leverkusen Cardozo 61 Benfica 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Sporting Clube de Portugal Thursday 25 February 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Cadú 3, João Paulo 3-2 21, Laranjeiro 90; 04/10/2007 R1 UD Leiria - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Leiria agg: 4-5 Papadopulos 10, Kiessling 87 Kiessling 19, 77, 20/09/2007 R1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - UD Leiria 3-1 Leverkusen Rolfes 31; João Paulo 29 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kirsten 24, 80, Schuster 57, Hapal Bayer 04 Leverkusen - SL 4-4 15/03/1994 QF Leverkusen 82; Abel Xavier 59, Benfica agg: 5-5 ag João Pinto 60, Kulkov 78, 85 01/03/1994 QF SL Benfica - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-1 Lisbon Isaías 90; Happe 66 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Os Belenenses - Bayer 04 1-0 12/10/1988 R1 Lisbon Adão 84 Leverkusen agg: 2-0 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Os 07/09/1988 R1 0-1 Leverkusen Mladenov 6 Belenenses Sporting Clube de Portugal - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sporting Clube de Portugal - VfL 0-0 26/02/2015 R32 Lisbon Wolfsburg agg: 0-2 VfL Wolfsburg - Sporting Clube 19/02/2015 R32 2-0 Wolfsburg Dost 46, 63 de Portugal UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sarr 26, Jefferson 52, Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC Nani 72, Slimani 05/11/2014 GS 4-2 Lisbon Schalke 04 90+1; Slimani 17 (og), Aogo 88 Obasi 34, Huntelaar 51, Höwedes 60, FC Schalke 04 - Sporting Clube 21/10/2014 GS 4-3 Gelsenkirchen Choupo-Moting 90+3 de Portugal (P); Nani 16, Adrien Silva 64 (P), 78 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Hertha BSC Berlin - Sporting 16/12/2009 GS 1-0 Berlin Kačar 70 Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal - 01/10/2009 GS 1-0 Lisbon Adrien Silva 18 Hertha BSC Berlin 3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Sporting Clube de Portugal Thursday 25 February 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen UEFA Europa League UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Podolski 7, 34, Polga 39 (og), FC Bayern München - Sporting 7-1 Schweinsteiger 43, 10/03/2009 R16 Munich Clube de Portugal agg: 12-1 Van Bommel 74, Klose 82 (P), Müller 90; João Moutinho 42 Ribéry 42, 63 (P), Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC 25/02/2009 R16 0-5 Lisbon Klose 57, Toni 84, Bayern München 90+1 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Bayern München - Sporting 31/10/2006 GS 0-0 Munich Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC 18/10/2006 GS 0-1 Lisbon Schweinsteiger 19 Bayern München UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1. FC Köln - Sporting Clube de 2-0 19/03/1986 QF Cologne K. Allofs 7, Bein 37 Portugal agg: 3-1 Sporting Clube de Portugal - 1. Meade 55; K. Allofs 04/03/1986 QF 1-1 Lisbon FC Köln 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1. FC Kaiserslautern - Sporting 2-0 Bongartz 26, Neues 07/11/1979 R2 Kaiserslautern Clube de Portugal agg: 3-1 63 Sporting Clube de Portugal - 1. Manoel 47; Bongartz 24/10/1979 R2 1-1 Lisbon FC Kaiserslautern 52 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Pommerenke 9, 1. FC Magdeburg - Sporting 2-1 24/04/1974 SF Magdeburg Sparwasser 70; Clube de Portugal agg: 3-2 Marinho 78 Sporting Clube de Portugal - 1. Manaca 76; 10/04/1974 SF 1-1 Lisbon FC Magdeburg Sparwasser 62 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC 1-2 Baltasar 78; Scheitler 04/11/1970 R2 Lisbon Carl Zeiss Jena agg: 2-4 30, Ducke 37 FC Carl Zeiss Jena - Sporting Kurbjuweit 51, Vogel 21/10/1970 R2 2-1 Jena Clube de Portugal 88; Marinho 67 4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Sporting Clube de Portugal Thursday 25 February 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Bayer 04 Leverkusen 7 4 1 2 8 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 15 6 4 5 24 18 Sporting Clube de Portugal 12 2 5 5 11 0 1 10 0 0 0 0 23 2 6 15 18 45 5 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Sporting Clube de Portugal Thursday 25 February 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Match background Beaten by Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the first leg, Sporting Clube de Portugal must register a first win on German soil in the return if they are to stand any chance of reaching the UEFA Europa League round of 16. Previous meetings • Karim Bellarabi, who also rattled the upright late on, scored the only goal with an improvised finish after 26 minutes. Sporting's Rúben Semedo was dismissed with just over a quarter of an hour remaining. • The teams had met on four occasions, all in the UEFA Champions League group stage, prior to the round of 32 first leg. Leverkusen won three of those games – the other ended 0-0. • In the 1997/98 competition, Christoph Daum's Leverkusen beat Octávio Machado's Sporting 2-0 in Lisbon and overcame a side led by Francisco Vital 4-1 in Germany. • Daum was also in charge in 2000/01, when the Werkself defeated Augusto Inácio's Sporting 3-2 at the BayArena, but had been replaced by Rudi Völler by the time the sides drew 0-0 in the return fixture. • Sporting have won just two of their 23 games against German opposition: W2 D6 L15 (W0 D1 L10 in Germany). • Leverkusen's 15 matches against Portuguese clubs have ended W6 D4 L5 (W4 D1 L2 at home). Form guide • Leverkusen are unbeaten in five European home games (W3 D2). • Sporting's 4-2 success at FC Lokomotiv Moskva on matchday five ended their 17-game wait for a European away win (D5 L12). • Leverkusen were beaten home and away by Sporting's local rivals SL Benfica – coached by current Sporting boss Jorge Jesus – the last time they reached the round of 32, in 2012/13. Leverkusen got the better of RCD Espanyol on penalties in the two-legged 1988 UEFA Cup final. • Sporting bowed out to another German side – VfL Wolfsburg – in last season's round of 32. In their best run in this competition, they reached the 2005 UEFA Cup final but lost 3-1 to PFC CSKA Moskva at their own Estadio José Alvalade. Trivia and links • The journey from Lisbon to Leverkusen is not far off 1,900km. • Sporting defender João Pereira turns 32 on the day of the game. He played in Germany with Hannover 96 in the spring of 2015. The coaches • In charge of Leverkusen since summer 2014, Roger Schmidt worked as a mechanical engineer while playing amateur football. He coached in the German lower leagues but made his name at FC Salzburg, who he led to a domestic double in 2013/14 and the last 16 of the UEFA Europa League that same season.