UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 2-1) OACA Spyros Louis - Athens Tuesday 28 August 2018 AEK Athens FC 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Vidi FC Play-off, Second leg Last updated 13/12/2018 17:58CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Match officials 8 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 12 Team facts 14 Competition format 16 Legend 17 1 AEK Athens FC - Vidi FC Tuesday 28 August 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Lazović 67; Klonaridis 22/08/2018 PO Vidi FC - AEK Athens FC 1-2 Budapest 34, Bakasetas 49 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AEK Athens FC 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 Vidi FC 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 AEK Athens FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Maladenis 28, 28/09/2000 R1 AEK Athens FC - Vasas FC Athens agg: 4-2 Nikolaidis 30 (P) Tamás Petö 89, Komódi 90; Tamás 12/09/2000 R1 Vasas FC - AEK Athens FC 2-2 Budapest Petö 47 (og), Nikolaidis 50 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 02/11/1999 R2 AEK Athens FC - MTK Budapest Athens Ciric 75 (P) agg: 2-2 ag Egressy 20, Erös 34; 21/10/1999 R2 MTK Budapest - AEK Athens FC 2-1 Budapest Ciric 66 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AEK Athens FC - Ferencvárosi 4-0 Nikolaidis 8, 13 (P), 25/08/1998 2QR Athens TC agg: 6-4 26, Donis 64 Selimi 11, Lendvai 28, Ferencvárosi TC - AEK Athens Nyilas 54, Ottó Vincze 11/08/1998 2QR 4-2 Budapest FC 83; Nikolaidis 86, Sebwe 88 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kisznyér 10, Kiss 12, 4-1 28/09/1983 R1 Újpest FC - AEK Athens FC Budapest Kardos 40 (P), 75 (P); agg: 4-3 Vlachos 18 14/09/1983 R1 AEK Athens FC - Újpest FC 2-0 Athens Kottis 67, Ross 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Salgótarjáni BTC - AEK Athens 1-1 Básti 53 (P); Nikolaou 27/09/1972 R1 Megye Nograd FC agg: 2-4 86 2 AEK Athens FC - Vidi FC Tuesday 28 August 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens UEFA Cup Nikolaou 1, 54 (P), AEK Athens FC - Salgótarjáni 13/09/1972 R1 3-1 Athens Visente 42; Jeck 89 BTC (P) Vidi FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Vidi FC have not played against a club from their opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AEK Athens FC 5 5 0 0 6 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 11 6 2 3 21 15 Vidi FC 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 3 AEK Athens FC - Vidi FC Tuesday 28 August 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens Match background AEK Athens will reach the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time in 12 years if they can extend their unbeaten home European record to seven games when Hungary's Vidi visit for the play-off second leg. • In an eventful first game in Budapest, Vidi lost Szabolcs Huszti to a 23rd-minute red card and were up against it when Viktor Klonaridis and Tasos Bakasetas found the net for AEK either side of half-time. Bakasetas was sent off shortly after scoring, however, and Danko Lazović halved the deficit to keep Vidi in contention to become only the third Hungarian club to reach the group stage. • While AEK have not reached the group stage since 2006/07, only two Hungarian clubs have ever got that far. Debrecen were the last, in 2009/10, following in the footsteps of Ferencváros in 1995/96. In their bid to emulate them, Vidi have come through three rounds already this season while AEK overcame the European pedigree of Celtic in the third qualifying round. Form guide AEK Athens • AEK won the Greek league title for the 12th time in 2017/18 – their first championship success since 1994. • The Athens club have participated in four previous UEFA Champions League group stage campaigns, most recently in 2006/07. Their two subsequent forays into the competition, in 2007/08 and 2017/18, both ended in the third qualifying round, where they entered this season's competition and defeated Celtic 3-2 on aggregate (1-1 away, 2-1 home) to reach the play-offs. The home win against the Scottish champions ended AEK's run of eight successive draws in European competition. • Last season AEK lost to CSKA Moskva in the UEFA Champions League and moved into the UEFA Europa League, where they were ultimately eliminated by Dynamo Kyiv in the round of 32 despite avoiding defeat in all ten of their matches in the competition (W2 D8). • The first-leg win made it 13 European games unbeaten for AEK (W4 D9). • The Greek side are unbeaten in six European home fixtures (W2 D4) having lost the preceding five. • AEK beat Club Brugge 3-0 on aggregate in last season's UEFA Europa League play-offs – their fourth win in four attempts at that stage of the competition. • The Yellow and Blacks have won all five home games against Hungarian visitors – most recently a 2-0 defeat of Vasas in the 2000/01 UEFA Cup first round – conceding only one goal while scoring 12. • AEK Athens were also victorious in their sole UEFA penalty shoot-out: 7-6 v Queens Park Rangers, 1976/77 UEFA Cup quarter-final Vidi • Known as Videoton until earlier this year, Vidi beat Luxembourg's Dudelange in the first qualifying round (1-1 away, 2-1 home) before aggregate victories against Ludogorets (0-0 away, 1-0 home) and Malmö (1-1 away, 0-0 home). • The first-leg loss was only the Hungarian club's second in their last ten European games (W3 D5), the other a 4-0 home defeat against Partizan in last season's UEFA Europa League play-off second leg to confirm aggregate elimination by the same scoreline. • Vidi have drawn their last four European away games, and seven of the last nine – losing only once in that sequence. Their only victory was a 3-0 success at Estonian side Nõmme Kalju in last season's UEFA Europa League second qualifying round. • This is Vidi's third UEFA Champions League campaign, and the first time they have made the play-offs; their 2011/12 debut ended in the second qualifying round, while they progressed a stage further in their most recent effort, in 2015/16. • UEFA Cup finalists in 1984/85 – losing to Real Madrid – Vidi's play-off record in the UEFA Europa League is W1 L2, their lone success coming on penalties against Trabzonspor in 2012/13 after two goalless draws. • Vidi had never played a Greek club in UEFA competition before this tie. • Vidi have won both their UEFA penalty shoot-outs: 4-2 v Trabzonspor, 2012/13 UEFA Europa League play-offs 5-4 v Manchester United, 1984/85 UEFA Cup quarter-final Links and trivia • Vidi forward Marko Šćepović made 13 league appearances for Olympiacos in 2013/14, scoring four goals in the club's Greek Super League triumph. 4 AEK Athens FC - Vidi FC Tuesday 28 August 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens 5 AEK Athens FC - Vidi FC Tuesday 28 August 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens Squad list AEK Athens FC Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Vassilis Barkas GRE 30/05/1994 24 - 3 - - - 1 - - - 5 - 16 Panagiotis Tsintotas GRE 04/07/1993 25 - - - - - - - - - 1 - 40 Serafeim Giannikoglou GRE 25/03/1993 25 - - - - - - - - - - - 99 Panagiotis Gkinis GRE 23/01/1999 19 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Michalis Bakakis GRE 18/03/1991 27 - 3 - - - 1 - - - 15 - 3 Hélder Lopes POR 04/01/1989 29 - 2 - - - 1 - - - 14 - 4 Marios Oikonomou GRE 06/10/1992 25 - 3 - - - - - - - 3 - 5 Vasileios Lampropoulos GRE 31/03/1990 28 - 3 - - - 1 - - - 6 - 12 Rodrigo Galo BRA 19/09/1986 31 - 2 1 - - 1 - - - 14 1 15 Uroš Ćosić SRB 24/10/1992 25 - 1 - - - 1 - - - 9 - 19 Dmytro Chygrynskiy UKR 07/11/1986 31 - - - - - - - 23 1 57 1 23 Niklas Hult SWE 13/02/1990 28 - 3 - - - - - - - 31 5 24 Efstratios Svarnas GRE 11/11/1997 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 33 Giorgos Giannoutsos GRE 16/07/1998 20 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 8 André Simões POR 16/12/1989 28 - 3 - - - - - - - 16 2 20 Petros Mantalos GRE 31/08/1991 26 - 2 - - - 1 - - - 15 1 25 Kostas Galanopoulos GRE 28/12/1997 20 - 2 - - - 1 - - - 13 - 39 Erik Morán ESP 25/05/1991 27 - - - - - - - - - 3 - 70 Ioannis-Foivos Mpotos GRE 20/12/2000 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 77 Christos Giousis GRE 08/02/1999 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 95 Alef BRA 28/01/1995 23 - 3 - - - 1 - - - 11 - Forwards 7 Christos Almpanis GRE 05/11/1994 23 - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - 9 Giorgos Giakoumakis GRE 09/12/1994 23 - - - - - 1 - - - 4 - 10 Marko Livaja CRO 26/08/1993 25 - 3 1 - - 1 1 - - 20 7 14 Tasos Bakasetas GRE 28/06/1993 25 S 3 1 - - 1 - - - 24 2 17 Viktor Klonaridis BEL 28/07/1992 26 * 3 2 - - 1 - - - 22 4 22 Ezequiel Ponce ARG 29/03/1997 21 - 2 - - - 1 1 - - 2 - Coach - Marinos Ouzounidis GRE 10/10/1968 49 - 3 - - - - - - - 14 - 6 AEK Athens FC - Vidi FC Tuesday 28 August 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OACA Spyros Louis, Athens Vidi FC Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No.