UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estadio de la Cerámica - Villarreal Thursday 8 December 2016 17.00CET (17.00 local time) Villarreal CF Group L - Matchday 6 FCSB Last updated 03/08/2017 14:32CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 17 Legend 19 1 Villarreal CF - FCSB Thursday 8 December 2016 - 17.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio de la Cerámica, Villarreal Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Steaua Bucureşti - Villarreal Muniru Sulley 19; 29/09/2016 GS 1-1 Bucharest CF Borré 9 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Villarreal CF - FC Steaua 1-0 20/03/2005 R16 Villarreal Riquelme 62 (P) Bucureşti agg: 1-0 FC Steaua Bucureşti - Villarreal 16/03/2005 R16 0-0 Bucharest CF Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Villarreal CF 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 2 1 FCSB 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 2 Villarreal CF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Villarreal CF have not played against a club from their opponents' country FCSB - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/11/2007 GS FC Steaua Bucureşti - Sevilla FC 0-2 Bucharest Renato 25, 65 Kanouté 5, Luís 23/10/2007 GS Sevilla FC - FC Steaua Bucureşti 2-1 Seville Fabiano 17; O.Petre 63 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 22/02/2007 R3 Sevilla FC - FC Steaua Bucureşti Seville A. Kerzhakov 45+3 agg: 3-0 C. Poulsen 41, 15/02/2007 R3 FC Steaua Bucureşti - Sevilla FC 0-2 Bucharest Kanouté 77 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Real Madrid CF - FC Steaua 01/11/2006 GS 1-0 Madrid Nicoliţă 70 (og) Bucureşti Badea 64; Ramos 9, FC Steaua Bucureşti - Real Raúl González 34, 17/10/2006 GS 1-4 Bucharest Madrid CF Robinho 56, Van Nistelrooy 76 2 Villarreal CF - FCSB Thursday 8 December 2016 - 17.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio de la Cerámica, Villarreal UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Real Betis Balompié - FC Steaua 0-3 Nicoliţă 54, 82, Iacob 16/03/2006 R16 Seville Bucureşti agg: 0-3 78 FC Steaua Bucureşti - Real Betis 09/03/2006 R16 0-0 Bucharest Balompié UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 FC Steaua Bucureşti - Valencia 24/02/2005 R3 agg: 2-2 (aet, 4- Bucharest Andrei Cristea 50, 71 CF 3pens) Valencia CF - FC Steaua 16/02/2005 R3 2-0 Valencia Di Vaio 39, Aimar 55 Bucureşti Athletic Club - FC Steaua 01/12/2004 GS 1-0 Bilbao Etxeberria 45 Bucureşti UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Valencia CF - FC Steaua 3-0 Roche 53, Claudio 29/09/1998 R1 Valencia Bucureşti agg: 7-3 López 56, Lucarelli 86 Lincar 29, Roşu 70, FC Steaua Bucureşti - Valencia Dumitrescu 90+3; Ilie 15/09/1998 R1 3-4 Bucharest CF 12, 24, Angulo 85, 90+6 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Steaua Bucureşti - Club Sabin Ilie 46; Pantić 20/11/1996 GS 1-1 Bucharest Atlético de Madrid 24 Club Atlético de Madrid - FC Esnáider 33, 45, 11/09/1996 GS 4-0 Madrid Steaua Bucureşti Simeone 64, 84 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Steaua Bucureşti - Real 1-0 07/11/1991 R2 Bucharest Popa 60 Sporting de Gijón agg: 3-2 Luhovy 45, Mirea 90 Real Sporting de Gijón - FC 24/10/1991 R2 2-2 Gijon (og); Popa 28, Steaua Bucureşti Dumitrescu 59 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Steaua Bucureşti - FC 0-0 07/05/1986 F Seville Barcelona (aet, 2-0pens) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Dumitru 35 (P); Cruyff FC Steaua Bucureşti - FC 1-3 28/09/1977 R1 Bucharest 23, Asensi 76, Tente Barcelona agg: 2-8 Sánchez 90 3 Villarreal CF - FCSB Thursday 8 December 2016 - 17.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio de la Cerámica, Villarreal UEFA Cup Heredia 4, 30, Cruyff FC Barcelona - FC Steaua 5 (P), Clares 63, 14/09/1977 R1 5-1 Barcelona Bucureşti Zuviria 82; Năstase 45 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Steaua Bucureşti - FC 2-1 Năstase 53, 60; 03/11/1971 R2 Bucharest Barcelona agg: 3-1 Asensi 49 FC Barcelona - FC Steaua 20/10/1971 R2 0-1 Barcelona Năstase 12 Bucureşti UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Steaua Bucureşti - Valencia 1-0 14/12/1967 R2 Bucharest Constantin 12 CF agg: 1-3 Valencia CF - FC Steaua Claramunt 1, Ansola 30/11/1967 R2 3-0 Valencia Bucureşti 41, 73 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Villarreal CF 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 2 1 FCSB 13 4 4 5 13 2 1 10 1 0 1 0 27 6 6 15 21 43 4 Villarreal CF - FCSB Thursday 8 December 2016 - 17.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio de la Cerámica, Villarreal Match background The four Group L sides are separated by a single point with one game remaining. Villarreal and Steaua Bucureşti are level on six points and each can guarantee a place in the last 32 with victory at El Madrigal. • Villarreal are through with a win, or with a draw (albeit with one caveat) if Zürich fail to win away to Osmanlıspor. Villarreal would top any three-way tie involving Zürich and Steaua. • Steaua are through with a victory, or with a draw other than 0-0 and 1-1 if Zürich lose. Previous meetings • The clubs drew 1-1 in Bucharest in their first Group L meeting on 29 September. • Manuel Pellegrini's Villarreal eliminated Walter Zenga's Steaua from the 2004/05 UEFA Cup round of 16 in the sides' only previous encounters, Juan Román Riquelme's penalty at El Madrigal decisive after a goalless first leg. • The line-ups for their match in Villarreal on 20 March 2005 were: Villarreal: Reina, Rodríguez, Arruabarrena, Josico, Riquelme (Arzo 90), Sorín (Cazorla 53), Figueroa, Venta, Senna, Peña, Mari (Font 85). Steaua: Khomutovski, Rădoi, Munteanu, Boştină, Dică, Marin, Opriţa (Diniţa 83), Ogăraru, Cristea (Nicoliţă 76), Ghionea, Lovin (Ciocoiu 76). • Those were Villarreal's only games to date against Romanian opponents, while Steaua have faced Spanish opposition 27 times in total with the record W6 D6 L15 (W2 D2 L10 in Spain). Most notably, they beat Barcelona on penalties in Seville following a 0-0 draw to win the 1986 European Champion Clubs' Cup final. • Steaua have not won in their last seven fixtures against Spanish clubs (D1 L6), since a 3-0 second-leg success over Real Betis in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup round of 16. Form guide • Villarreal have lost two of their three European home matches this season. • Steaua have not won in four European away games this term (D2 L2), and have failed to score in the most recent three. • The Yellow Submarine have qualified for the round of 32 in all six of their previous UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage ventures. • Steaua have qualified for the last 32 in four of their seven previous UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage forays; they missed out in the most recent of these, 2014/15. Links and trivia • The journey from Bucharest to Villarreal is around 2,200km. • Steaua's Gabriel Tamaş (Celta Vigo, 2006–07) and Wilfried Moke (several lower-league teams including Cádiz, 2010–13, and Burgos, 2013–15) have played club football in Spain. • Villarreal's matchday five fixture at Zürich was their 51st in the UEFA Europa League – a competition record. The coaches • Fran Escribá took charge of Villarreal in August. A trainee at Valencia, he coached with the club's youth sides and was Quique Sánchez Flores's assistant at Valencia, Getafe, Benfica and Atlético Madrid before going it alone with Elche and – last season – Getafe. • Laurenţiu Reghecampf won two titles as a midfielder with Steaua and two more in his first stint as coach, from 2012– 14. He returned to Bucharest in December 2015 after a spell in Bulgaria with Litex Lovech, with whom he had claimed a championship as a player in 1998/99. Chapecoense commemoration Teams taking part in all of the matchday six UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League fixtures will observe a minute's silence to pay respect to the victims of last week's air disaster involving the Chapecoense team and accompanying delegation. The Brazilian club lost most of their players and coaching staff in the accident, which occurred in Colombia, where Chapecoense were due to play the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Atlético Nacional. "European football is united in expressing its deepest sympathy to Chapecoense, the Brazilian Football Confederation [CBF], CONMEBOL and the families of all the victims," said UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin. "This tragedy has shaken the world of football, and we would like to send our support to all of those affected by it." 5 Villarreal CF - FCSB Thursday 8 December 2016 - 17.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Estadio de la Cerámica, Villarreal Team facts Villarreal CF Formed: 1923 Nickname: El Submarino Amarillo (The Yellow Submarine) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Intertoto Cup (2): 2003, 2004 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) None Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2015/16: semi-finals 2014/15: round of 16 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2011/12: UEFA Champions League group stage 2010/11: semi-finals 2009/10: round of 32 2008/09: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2007/08: round of 32 2006/07: UEFA Intertoto Cup third round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-1: Villarreal v NAC Breda