UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis - Piraeus Thursday 8 November 2018 Olympiacos FC 21.00CET (22.00 local time) F91 Dudelange Group F - Matchday 4 Last updated 22/02/2019 15:26CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Match officials 14 Legend 15 1 Olympiacos FC - F91 Dudelange Thursday 8 November 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, Piraeus Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Torosidis 66, 25/10/2018 GS F91 Dudelange - Olympiacos FC 0-2 Luxembourg Jordanov 81 (og) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Olympiacos FC 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 F91 Dudelange 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 Olympiacos FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Papachristou 53, US Luxembourg - Olympiacos 0-3 01/10/1986 R1 Luxembourg Zelilidis 84, FC agg: 0-6 Anastopoulos 88 Olympiacos FC - US Barrios 2, 47, Togias 17/09/1986 R1 3-0 Athens Luxembourg 57 F91 Dudelange - Record versus clubs from opponents' country F91 Dudelange 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 Olympiacos FC 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 8 0 F91 Dudelange 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 Olympiacos FC - F91 Dudelange Thursday 8 November 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, Piraeus Match background Defeated without scoring in their opening three UEFA Europa League Group F fixtures, Dudelange will be hoping for a change in fortune as they travel to Olympiacos, who beat them 2-0 in Luxembourg on matchday three. • The first team from Luxembourg to compete in a UEFA group stage, Dudelange pushed both Milan (0-1 home) and Betis (0-3) hard without reward in their first two matches before experiencing similar disappointment against Olympiacos. The record champions of Greece drew their opening game 0-0 at home to Betis before surrendering a lead to lose 3-1 in Italy. • Dudelange will be out if they lose. Previous meetings • Dudelange had never faced opposition from Greece in UEFA competition until matchday three. • Olympiacos's one previous game at home to a side from the Grand Duchy, in the first round of the 1986/87 European Cup Winners' Cup, resulted in a 3-0 win over US Luxembourg, the Piraeus side also going on to win the second leg by the same score. Form guide Olympiacos • Last season Olympiacos surrendered the Greek Superleague title they had won in each of the previous seven campaigns, finishing third behind AEK Athens and PAOK and thus ending up in the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round, where they handsomely defeated Luzern (4-0 home, 3-1 away) before seeing off Burnley in the play- offs (3-1 home, 1-1 away). • Although Olympiacos have been involved in the knockout phase of the UEFA Europa League on five occasions, this is only the second season in which they have participated in the group stage, their previous effort in 2016/17 having brought two wins, two draws and two defeats and qualification for the next round only on the head-to-head rule. • Outside the qualifying phase the Piraeus club have won just one of their last ten UEFA Europa League home fixtures (D5 L4). They have also won only one of their last six home group games in the UEFA Champions League, losing four. 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). • Dudelange won two successive away games in the qualifying phase – 2-1 at Legia and 3-2 at Cluj – but leading into this season they had lost eight games on the trot outside Luxembourg, the last six without scoring. Links and trivia • Dudelange are one of five clubs playing in the UEFA Europe League proper for the first time this season – and the very first from Luxembourg, which has become the 39th nation to be represented in the competition's group stage. • All six of the goals conceded by Dudelange in this group stage have been scored in the second half. • Dudelange are one of only two teams yet to collect a point or score a goal after three matchdays in this season’s UEFA Europa League; Qarabağ (Group E) are the other. The coaches • Pedro Martins was named Olympiacos coach in April 2018, becoming the club's fifth Portuguese boss in six years after Leonardo Jardim, Vítor Pereira, Marco Silva and Paulo Bento. He had not previously worked outside his homeland, his last three spells in the dugout before the move to Greece having brought UEFA Europa League qualification for Marítimo, Rio Ave and Vitória Guimarães. A holding midfielder, he was capped once by Portugal during a three-year spell with Sporting CP from 1995–98. • 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. 3 Olympiacos FC - F91 Dudelange Thursday 8 November 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, Piraeus Team facts Olympiacos FC Formed: 1925 Nickname: Erythrolefki (Red and Whites), Thrylos (Legend) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 44 (2017) Greek Cup: 27 (2015) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: UEFA Champions League group stage 2016/17: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2015/16: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2014/15: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2013/14: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2012/13: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2011/12: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2010/11: third qualifying round 2009/10: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2008/09: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-1: Olympiacos v Besa 22/07/10, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round second leg 5-0 twice, most recently v Nordsjælland 02/10/08, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: Besa v Olympiacos 15/07/10, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Olympiacos v Hamburg 03/11/82, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 7-0: Juventus v Olympiacos 10/12/03, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-1: Olympiacos v Besa (see above) 5-0: Olympiacos v Nordsjælland (see above) • Biggest away win 0-5: Besa v Olympiacos (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-3 three times, most recently v St-Étienne 18/02/09, round of 32 first leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: Dinamo Zagreb v Olympiacos 28/09/77, first round second leg 4-0 twice, most recently v Newcastle 16/03/05, round of 16 second leg F91 Dudelange Formed: 1991 UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) 4 Olympiacos FC - F91 Dudelange Thursday 8 November 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, Piraeus • 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) 5 Olympiacos FC - F91 Dudelange Thursday 8 November 2018 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, Piraeus Squad list Olympiacos FC Current season All-time QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.