UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Olimpico in Rome - Rome Thursday 13 December 2018 18.55CET (18.55 local time) SS Lazio Group H - Matchday 6 Eintracht Frankfurt Last updated 30/08/2019 01:19CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 SS Lazio - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 13 December 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Olimpico in Rome, Rome Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Da Costa 4, 90+4, Frankfurt am 04/10/2018 GS Eintracht Frankfurt - SS Lazio 4-1 Kostić 28, Jović 52; Main Parolo 23 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SS Lazio 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 Eintracht Frankfurt 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 SS Lazio - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Çalhanoğlu 40, 3-0 26/08/2015 PO Bayer 04 Leverkusen - SS Lazio Leverkusen Mehmedi 48, Bellarabi agg: 3-1 88 18/08/2015 PO SS Lazio - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-0 Rome Keita Baldé 77 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-1 Kozák 6, 8, 87; 14/03/2013 R16 SS Lazio - VfB Stuttgart Rome agg: 5-1 Hajnal 62 Ederson 21, Onazi 07/03/2013 R16 VfB Stuttgart - SS Lazio 0-2 Stuttgart 56 SS Lazio - VfL Borussia 2-0 Candreva 10, 21/02/2013 R32 Rome Mönchengladbach agg: 5-3 González 33 Stranzl 17 (P), Marx VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach - 84 (P), Arango 88; 14/02/2013 R32 3-3 Monchengladbach SS Lazio Floccari 57, Kozák 64, 90+4 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Rocchi 57, 68; Diego 06/11/2007 GS SS Lazio - SV Werder Bremen 2-1 Rome 88 (P) Sanogo 28, Hugo 24/10/2007 GS SV Werder Bremen - SS Lazio 2-1 Bremen Almeida 54; Manfredini 82 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/10/1999 GS1 SS Lazio - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-1 Rome Nedvěd 1; Kirsten 44 Neuville 14; Mihajlović 14/09/1999 GS1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - SS Lazio 1-1 Leverkusen 18 2 SS Lazio - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 13 December 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Olimpico in Rome, Rome UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Chapuisat 11 (P), 14/03/1995 QF Borussia Dortmund - SS Lazio Dortmund agg: 2-1 Riedle 90 28/02/1995 QF SS Lazio - Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Rome Freund 67 (og) Eintracht Frankfurt - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eintracht Frankfurt - US Città di Frankfurt am Streit 45+1; Brienza 19/10/2006 GS 1-2 Palermo Main 49, Zaccardo 87 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-0 Conte 77, Ravanelli 14/03/1995 QF Juventus - Eintracht Frankfurt Turin agg: 4-1 86, Del Piero 89 Frankfurt am Furtok 73; Marocchi 28/02/1995 QF Eintracht Frankfurt - Juventus 1-1 Main 37 0-1 07/12/1994 R3 SSC Napoli - Eintracht Frankfurt Naples Falkenmayer 54 agg: 0-2 Frankfurt am 24/11/1994 R3 Eintracht Frankfurt - SSC Napoli 1-0 Buso 55 (og) Main Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SS Lazio 6 5 1 0 7 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 13 6 3 4 18 18 Eintracht Frankfurt 4 2 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 3 1 2 8 7 3 SS Lazio - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 13 December 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Olimpico in Rome, Rome Match background There is nothing significant on the line as the two qualified teams from UEFA Europa League Group H meet on matchday six in Rome, though section winners Eintracht Frankfurt will be keen to make it six wins out of six as they take on a Lazio side who are through as runners-up despite trailing their visitors by six points. • Eintracht's first European campaign in five years has been flawless so far, an opening 2-1 win at last season's runners-up Marseille triggering a run of five successive victories that have brought 15 goals – the joint-highest tally in the competition alongside Salzburg (Group B) and Sevilla (J). • Like Frankfurt, Lazio have defeated Marseille home and away, sealing their qualification in advance of a 2-0 defeat at Apollon Limassol – whom they had beaten 2-1 at home – on matchday five. Previous meetings • The clubs' first UEFA competition encounter, on matchday two, went the way of Eintracht, who ran out 4-1 winners in a game that Lazio completed with only nine men. Defender Danny da Costa scored the first and last of the home side's goals. • Lazio have an excellent record against German clubs in Rome, winning five of the six matches and drawing the other. They eliminated successive Bundesliga opponents in Borussia Mönchengladbach and Stuttgart en route to the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals thanks to decisive second-leg wins at the Stadio Olimpico (2-0 and 3-1 respectively). • Eintracht's two previous visits to Italy came in the same season, 1994/95, when they won 1-0 at Napoli in the third round of the UEFA Cup (and 2-0 on aggregate) but lost 0-3 at Juventus (1-4 agg) in the quarter-finals. Form guide Lazio • Edged out of fourth place and into fifth in last season's Serie A by Internazionale on the final day, Lazio are participating in the UEFA Europa League for the seventh time, their best performances having been in 2012/13 and 2017/18, when they reached the quarter-finals. • The Rome side have played more games in the competition than any other Italian club, this being their 62nd – and 42nd in the group stage. Including this season, their last six UEFA Europa League group stage participations have all been successful – after failure in the first – and they have topped their section on three occasions. • Runners-up to Inter in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup, Lazio were undefeated at home in Europe last season (W4 D2) and have won 11 of their last 14 continental fixtures in Rome (D2 L1). They are unbeaten in their last 17 UEFA Europa League group games at the Stadio Olimpico (W13 D4), winning seven of the last eight. Eintracht • A dramatic 2017/18 German Cup final victory over Bundesliga champions Bayern München – 3-1 in Berlin – not only gave Eintracht their first major silverware in 30 years but also secured their first European campaign in five. • Eintracht's only 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. • 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 ten European games on the road (W5 D4). Their overall record in the UEFA Europa League, home and away and including qualifying, is W12 D2 L1, the sole defeat coming at Maccabi Tel-Aviv (2-4) five years ago. Links and trivia • Milan Badelj (Lazio) and Ante Rebić (Eintracht) were members of the Croatia squad that finished runners-up at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Badelj has played in Germany with Hamburg, his two games against Eintracht bringing two defeats and two draws, while Rebić has played in Italy with Verona and Fiorentina. • Lazio's Sergej Milinković-Savić and Dušan Basta have both played alongside Eintracht's Filip Kostić for Serbia, while Riza Durmisi (Lazio) and Frederik Rønnow (Eintracht) are fellow Danish internationals. • Lazio jointly hold the record for the most draws in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final. They and Dynamo Kyiv have both shared the spoils on 18 occasions. • Eintracht are one of three clubs with maximum points from the opening five UEFA Europa League fixtures, the others being Salzburg (Group B) and Chelsea (L). • Eintracht's Serbian international striker Luka Jović scored twice in the 4-0 home win against Marseille on matchday five to join Salzburg's Munas Dabbur as the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League's joint top scorer with five goals. 4 SS Lazio - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 13 December 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Olimpico in Rome, Rome The coaches • Lazio boss since April 2016, when he replaced Stefano Pioli, Simone Inzaghi represented the club as a forward between 1999 and 2010, winning the Italian double in his debut season and the Coppa Italia twice more in later years. The younger brother of fellow ex-Italian international Filippo Inzaghi, with whom he played at home-town outfit Piacenza, he began coaching Lazio's youth teams immediately after hanging up his boots. His first trophy as coach was the 2017 Italian Super Cup. • Austrian coach Adi Hütter was appointed by Eintracht Frankfurt as the successor to Bayern München-bound Niko Kovač in May 2018, having just led Young Boys to their first Swiss league title in 32 years.