UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stade Josy Barthel - Luxembourg Thursday 13 December 2018 21.00CET (21.00 local time) F91 Dudelange Group F - Matchday 6 Real Betis Balompié Last updated 22/02/2019 15:45CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 F91 Dudelange - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 13 December 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Real Betis Balompié - F91 Sanabria 56, Lo Celso 04/10/2018 GS 3-0 Seville Dudelange 80, Tello 88 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA F91 Dudelange 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 Real Betis Balompié 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 F91 Dudelange - Record versus clubs from opponents' country F91 Dudelange have not played against a club from their opponents' country Real Betis Balompié - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Real Betis Balompié have not played against a club from their opponents' country 2 F91 Dudelange - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 13 December 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Match background Luxembourg's F91 Dudelange bid farewell to a first UEFA Europa League group campaign that has brought five defeats but plenty of dogged determination. They will hope to sign off in style against unbeaten Real Betis, whose place in the knockout phase is already secure and who are now looking to go through as Group F winners. • Dudelange almost caused a sensation on matchday five when they led seven-time European champions AC Milan 2- 1 at San Siro midway through the second half, but they eventually ran out of steam. The 5-2 defeat was their fifth out of five and the second game in a row in which they had conceded five goals. Their total of 16 goals against is the highest in the group stage. • Betis booked their round of 32 ticket by beating Olympiacos 1-0 in Seville last time out. They have taken four points off both the Greek side and Milan and will top the group with a win against Dudelange, or if the Rossoneri do not win in Piraeus. Previous meetings • Betis had never faced a team from Luxembourg, nor had Dudelange encountered opposition from Spain, before the club's matchday two meeting in Seville, which the Andalusian club won 3-0 with three second-half goals. Form guide Dudelange • The premier force in Luxembourg since the turn of the millennium, Dudelange won their 14th national championship last season, completing a hat-trick of titles. They narrowly lost this season's UEFA Champions League first qualifying round tie against Hungary's Vidi but made historic amends by subsequently overcoming Drita, Legia Warszawa and, in the play-offs, CFR Cluj to reach the UEFA Europa League group stage. • Dudelange's previous best European performance came in 2012/13, when they reached the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round before falling to Hapoel Tel-Aviv in the UEFA Europa League play-offs (1-3 home, 0-4 away). • Since then Dudelange have lost only three of 11 home games in Europe (W3 D5) and although they have drawn blanks in both group games against Milan (0-1) and Olympiacos (0-2), they did find the net twice in all three home fixtures in this season's UEFA Europa League qualifying phase (W2 D1). Betis • Betis finished one place and two points above Sevilla in last season's Liga to clinch an automatic UEFA Europa League group stage spot at their city rivals' expense. • Prior to this season, Betis's last opponents in Europe were Sevilla, and it was a painful experience as they lost to the eventual winners on penalties in the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League round of 16. That was the club's first European adventure in eight years, their six group games featuring just five goals in total but the three they scored proving sufficient to take them into the round of 32. There they overcame Rubin 3-1 on aggregate before the dramatic all- Seville contest in which both clubs won 2-0 at their opponents' stadium. • Betis have lost only one of their last nine European away games, winning five, including 2-1 at Milan on matchday three, and have not conceded more than once in any match during that stretch, keeping five clean sheets. Links and trivia • Dudelange are one of five clubs playing in the UEFA Europa League proper for the first time this season – and the very first from Luxembourg, the 39th nation to be represented in the competition's group stage. • Dudelange are also one of three clubs yet to record a point in this season's UEFA Europa League group stage – alongside Rosenborg (Group B) and fellow debutants Akhisar (J). Only four teams have ever exited the competition after losing all six group games – Shamrock Rovers (2011/12), Metalist Kharkiv (2014/15), Slovan Bratislava (2014/15) and Gabala (2016/17). The coaches • The son of Klaus Toppmöller, the coach who led Bayer Leverkusen to the 2002 UEFA Champions League final, Dino had a lengthy career in Germany's lower leagues before ending it as a player-coach with Luxembourg side Hamm Benfica. Having steered the club to promotion, he joined Dudelange in 2016 and promptly won the Luxembourg double, adding a second league title in 2017/18 and then defying the odds to mastermind a landmark qualification for the UEFA Europa League group stage. • A former midfielder capped three times by Spain, Santander-born Quique Setién spent most of his playing career with home-town club Real Racing Club, his two lengthy spells there interrupted by shorter stints at Atlético Madrid and Logroñés. His coaching career also began at Racing and eventually prospered in the Canary Islands with Las Palmas. He returned to the Spanish mainland to take charge of Betis in May 2017, leading the Seville club to sixth spot in the 3 F91 Dudelange - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 13 December 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Liga at the end of his first season. 4 F91 Dudelange - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 13 December 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Team facts F91 Dudelange Formed: 1991 UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (latest triumph in brackets) League title: 14 (2018) Luxembourg Cup: 7 (2017) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless otherwise indicated) 2017/18: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2016/17: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2015/16: first qualifying round 2014/15: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2013/14: first qualifying round 2012/13: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2011/12: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2010/11: first qualifying round 2009/10: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2008/09: UEFA Champions League first qualifying round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-0: Dudelange v Tre Penne 03/07/12, UEFA Champions League first qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 0-4 twice, most recently v Tre Penne 10/07/12, UEFA Champions League first qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-6 three times, most recently v Rapid Wien 27/07/05, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-1 three times, most recently v Randers 01/07/10, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round first leg 5-0: Hajduk Split v Dudelange 12/08/99, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 2-0: Dudelange v CFR Cluj 23/08/18, play-off first leg • Biggest away win 2-3: CFR Cluj v Dudelange 30/08/18, play-off second leg 1-2: Legia v Dudelange 09/08/18, third qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: Dudelange v Hapoel Tel-Aviv 23/08/12, play-off first leg 0-2: Dudelange v Olympiacos 25/10/18, group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Randers v Dudelange (see above) 5-0: Hajduk Split v Dudelange (see above) Real Betis Balompié 5 F91 Dudelange - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 13 December 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Formed: 1907 Nickname: Verdiblancos (Green-and-Whites) UEFA club competition honours • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 1 (1935) Spanish Cup: 2 (2005) Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: round of 16 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: Betis v Jablonec 29/08/13, UEFA Europa League play-off second leg • Biggest away win 1-3: Kaiserslautern v Betis 18/10/95, UEFA Cup second round first leg 0-2 four times, most recently v Sevilla 13/03/14, UEFA Europa League round of 16 first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Betis v Steaua Bucureşti 16/03/06, UEFA Cup round of 16 second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Chelsea v Betis 19/10/05, UEFA Cup group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 6-0: Betis v Jablonec (see above) • Biggest away win 1-3: Kaiserslautern v Betis (see above) 0-2 three times, most recently v Sevilla (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Betis v Steaua Bucureşti (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Chelsea v Betis (see above) 6 F91 Dudelange - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 13 December 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg Squad list F91 Dudelange Current season All-time UCL QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.