UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 3-4) BayArena - Leverkusen Thursday 25 February 2021 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 21.00CET (21.00 local time) BSC Young Boys Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 19/03/2021 14:23CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - BSC Young Boys Thursday 25 February 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Fassnacht 3, BSC Young Boys - Bayer 04 Siebatcheu 19, 89, 18/02/2021 R32 4-3 Berne Leverkusen Elia 44; Schick 49, 52, Diaby 68 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 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 4 BSC Young Boys 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC 08/11/2018 GS 1-0 Leverkusen Jedvaj 60 Zürich Marchesano 44, 25/10/2018 GS FC Zürich - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 3-2 Zurich Domgjoni 59, Odey 78; Bellarabi 50, 54 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Greško 19, Bulykin FC Zürich - Bayer 04 19/12/2007 GS 0-5 Zurich 23, 57, Barnetta 50, Leverkusen Kiessling 80 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Voronin 62, Ramelow 3-1 28/09/2006 R1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Sion Leverkusen 76, Schneider 86 (P); agg: 3-1 Fernandes 75 14/09/2006 R1 FC Sion - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-0 Geneva BSC Young Boys - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers T. Hazard 9, 64, 84, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 6-1 24/08/2016 PO Monchengladbach Raffael 33, 40, 77; - BSC Young Boys agg: 9-2 Ravet 79 Sulejmani 56; BSC Young Boys - VfL Borussia 16/08/2016 PO 1-3 Berne Raffael 11, Hahn Mönchengladbach 67, Rochat 69 (og) 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - BSC Young Boys Thursday 25 February 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers D. Degen 39, Sutter 81, Mayuka 82, 87; 01/12/2010 GS BSC Young Boys - VfB Stuttgart 4-2 Berne Pogrebnyak 48, Schipplock 68 Cacau 23 (P), 16/09/2010 GS VfB Stuttgart - BSC Young Boys 3-0 Stuttgart Gentner 59, Tasci 90+1 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Reimann 15, Bertl 50, Hamburger SV - BSC Young 4-2 01/10/1975 R1 Hamburg 67, Bjørnmose 85; Boys agg: 4-2 Siegenthaler 65, 87 17/09/1975 R1 BSC Young Boys - Hamburger SV 0-0 Berne European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Stürmer 13, Dörfel 72, Hamburger SV - BSC Young 3-3 Walker 86 (og); Bigler 27/11/1960 R1 Hamburg Boys agg: 8-3 21 (P), Meier 25, Schneiter 48 Stürmer 24, 52, BSC Young Boys - Hamburger 02/11/1960 R1 0-5 Berne Seeler 34, 39, Neisner SV 72 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eintracht Frankfurt - BSC Young 1-1 Frankfurt am Bäumler 68 (P); 25/11/1959 R1 Boys agg: 5-2 Main Schneider 90 Meier 23; Weilbächer BSC Young Boys - Eintracht 04/11/1959 R1 1-4 Berne 4, Stein 72, Bäumler Frankfurt 76 (P), Meier 82 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Meier 21, BSC Young Boys - FC Wismut 01/04/1959 QF (Rep) 2-1 (Rep) Amsterdam Wechselberger 33; Aue Tröger 75 (P) FC Wismut Aue - BSC Young 0-0 18/03/1959 QF Aue Boys agg: 2-2 BSC Young Boys - FC Wismut Meier 22, Rey 87; 11/03/1959 QF 2-2 Berne Aue Wagner 45, Zink 59 Home Away Final Neutral Total Pld W D L 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 4 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 1 2 14 8 BSC Young Boys 7 2 2 3 6 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 14 3 5 6 21 37 3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - BSC Young Boys Thursday 25 February 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Match background With a place in the UEFA Europa League round of 16 on the line, Bayer Leverkusen and Young Boys meet again in north-west Germany a week after a remarkable first leg in Berne that the Swiss side eventually won 4-3 after the visitors had clawed back a three-goal deficit. • Leverkusen were the group stage's top scorers with 21 goals as they won Group C, completing their campaign with a 4-0 home win against fellow qualifiers Slavia Praha. Young Boys, despite losing both games to Roma, finished as runners-up to the Italian side in Group A, clinching their place with a 2-1 home win against CFR Cluj on Matchday 6. Previous meetings • The clubs' first meeting in UEFA competition provided a riveting contest. The runaway Swiss Super League leaders raced into a 3-0 half-time lead with goals from Christian Fassnacht, Jordan Siebatcheu and Meschack Elia, but by midway through the second period Leverkusen had pulled it back to 3-3 thanks to a double from Czech international Patrik Schick and substitute Moussa Diaby. The last word, though, went to Siebatcheu, who crowned his first European start of the season with Young Boys' 89th-minute winner. • Leverkusen have won both of their previous two home games against Swiss sides, most recently overcoming FC Zürich 1-0 with a Tin Jedvaj goal in the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League group stage. • Despite the first-leg victory YB have won just three of their 14 matches against German opposition (D5 L6) and have lost all four of their two-legged knockout ties against Bundesliga sides, most recently going down 9-2 on aggregate to Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League play-offs (1-3 h, 1-6 a). They have never won on German soil in six attempts, having drawn their first three matches there and lost the three most recent. Form guide Leverkusen • Fifth place in the 2019/20 Bundesliga earned Leverkusen a return to the UEFA Europa League, where they reached the quarter-finals last season after finishing third in their UEFA Champions League group. They won both legs against Porto in the round of 32 (2-1 h, 3-1 a) and Rangers in the round of 16 (3-1 a, 1-0 h) before losing their last-eight encounter 2-1 to Internazionale in nearby Düsseldorf. They also reached the final of last season's DFB-Pokal, losing 4-2 to Bayern München. • This season Peter Bosz's side kicked off their European campaign in the UEFA Europa League group stage and they made it four qualifications out of four by topping Group C with 15 points, the only blemish a 1-0 defeat at Slavia on Matchday 2 in which Karim Bellarabi was sent off in the first half. That 4-0 win against the Czech side on Matchday 6 clinched first place, following high-scoring doubles over Hapoel Beer-Sheva (4-2 a, 4-1 h) and Nice (6-2 h, 3-2 a). Leverkusen's final tally of 21 goals was just one short of Napoli's UEFA Europa League group stage record. • Leverkusen's record in five previous UEFA Europa League round of 32 ties is W3 L2 and has developed a pattern that they will want to break this term. They won the first, against Metalist Kharkiv in 2010/11 (4-0 a, 2-0 h), lost the second, against Benfica in 2012/13 (0-1 h, 1-2 a), won the third, against Sporting CP in 2015/16 (1-0 a, 3-1 h), lost the fourth, against Krasnodar in 2018/19 (0-0 a, 1-1 h), and won the fifth, against Porto last season. • The Werkself's overall home record in the UEFA Europa League, play-offs included, is W14 D5 L2, with no defeats in the last 11 matches (W8 D3), victories in each of the last five, and 14 goals inflicted on the visitors in this season's group stage. • Leverkusen have won four of the seven UEFA ties in which they lost the first leg away, most famously in the first instance when they went down 3-0 at Espanyol in the first leg of the 1987/88 UEFA Cup final, only to win by the same scoreline in Germany before taking the trophy on penalties. Their other three aggregate wins have come on the only occasions when they have lost the first leg by a one-goal margin, most recently in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League play-off against Lazio (0-1 a, 3-0 h). Young Boys • Champions of Switzerland for the third season running in 2019/20, and the 14th time in all, Young Boys lost last season's UEFA Champions League play-off on away goals to Crvena zvezda but reached the UEFA Europa League group stage, where they finished third in a section containing Porto, Rangers and Feyenoord.