UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2014/15 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Anfield - Liverpool Thursday 19 February 2015 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Liverpool FC Round of 32, First leg Beşiktaş JK Last updated 17/11/2017 09:34CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 6 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 14 Legend 15 1 Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit Anfield, Liverpool Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Crouch 19, 89, Benayoun 32, 53, 56, 06/11/2007 GS Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK 8-0 Liverpool Gerrard 69, Babel 78, 81 Hyypiä 13 (og), Bobô 24/10/2007 GS Beşiktaş JK - Liverpool FC 2-1 Istanbul 82; Gerrard 85 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Liverpool FC 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 9 2 Beşiktaş JK 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 9 Liverpool FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Gutiérrez 4; Giray 1-2 26/08/2010 PO Trabzonspor AŞ - Liverpool FC Trabzon Kaçar 83 (og), Kuyt agg: 1-3 88 19/08/2010 PO Liverpool FC - Trabzonspor AŞ 1-0 Liverpool Babel 45+1 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Necati 24, Okan 05/12/2006 GS Galatasaray AŞ - Liverpool FC 3-2 Istanbul Buruk 28, S. Ilić 79; Fowler 22, 90 Crouch 9, 52, Luis 27/09/2006 GS Liverpool FC - Galatasaray AŞ 3-2 Liverpool García 14; Ümit Karan 59, 65 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Niculescu 71; Heskey 26/02/2002 GS2 Galatasaray AŞ - Liverpool FC 1-1 Istanbul 79 20/02/2002 GS2 Liverpool FC - Galatasaray AŞ 0-0 Liverpool European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-0 Heighway 8, Johnson 03/11/1976 R2 Liverpool FC - Trabzonspor AŞ Liverpool agg: 3-1 10, Keegan 18 20/10/1976 R2 Trabzonspor AŞ - Liverpool FC 1-0 Trabzon Usta 62 (P) Beşiktaş JK - Record versus clubs from opponents' country 2 Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit Anfield, Liverpool UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Beşiktaş JK - Tottenham Hotspur 11/12/2014 GS 1-0 Istanbul Cenk Tosun 59 FC Tottenham Hotspur FC - Beşiktaş 02/10/2014 GS 1-1 London H. Kane 27; Ba 89 (P) JK UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 27/08/2014 PO Arsenal FC - Beşiktaş JK London Alexis Sánchez 45+1 agg: 1-0 19/08/2014 PO Beşiktaş JK - Arsenal FC 0-0 Istanbul UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manuel Fernandes 59 (P), Mustafa 14/12/2011 GS Beşiktaş JK - Stoke City FC 3-1 Istanbul Pektemek 74, Edu 82; Fuller 29 Crouch 15, Walters 78 29/09/2011 GS Stoke City FC - Beşiktaş JK 2-1 Stoke-on-Trent (P); Hilbert 14 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manchester United FC - Beşiktaş 25/11/2009 GS 0-1 Manchester Tello 20 JK Beşiktaş JK - Manchester United 15/09/2009 GS 0-1 Istanbul Scholes 77 FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Beşiktaş JK - Tottenham Ghaly 31, Berbatov 19/10/2006 GS 0-2 Istanbul Hotspur FC 63 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Beşiktaş JK - Bolton Wanderers Aílton Gonçalves 7; 20/10/2005 GS 1-1 Istanbul FC Borgetti 29 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Hasselbaink 77, 09/12/2003 GS1 Beşiktaş JK - Chelsea FC 0-2 Gelsenkirchen Bridge 85 01/10/2003 GS1 Chelsea FC - Beşiktaş JK 0-2 London Sergen Yalçın 24, 29 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/10/2000 GS1 Beşiktaş JK - Leeds United 0-0 Istanbul 3 Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit Anfield, Liverpool UEFA Champions League Bowyer 7, 90, Viduka 26/09/2000 GS1 Leeds United - Beşiktaş JK 6-0 Leeds 12, Matteo 22, Bakke 65, Huckerby 90 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 29/09/1982 R1 Beşiktaş JK - Aston Villa FC Istanbul agg: 1-3 Withe 4, Morley 9, 15/09/1982 R1 Aston Villa FC - Beşiktaş JK 3-1 Birmingham Mortimer 29; Eksi 74 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Liverpool FC 5 4 1 0 5 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 10 5 2 3 21 10 Beşiktaş JK 10 3 4 3 8 2 1 5 0 0 0 0 18 5 5 8 13 29 4 Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit Anfield, Liverpool Match background Liverpool FC will be eager to continue where they left off against Beşiktaş JK with records having been broken the last time their UEFA Europa League round of 32 opponents came to Merseyside. Previous meetings • The sides met in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League group stage, with Ertuğrul Sağlam's Beşiktaş beating the Reds 2-1 in Istanbul before crashing 8-0 to Rafael Benítez's men at Anfield; it remains Beşiktaş's heaviest European defeat, and indeed the heaviest loss suffered by any club in the UEFA Champions League (group stage to final). • The teams for that game on 6 November 2007 were: Liverpool: Reina, Hyypiä, Riise, Gerrard* (Lucas 73), Voronin (Kewell 72), Benayoun, Fábio Aurélio (Babel 63), Crouch, Arbeloa, Mascherano, Carragher. Beşiktaş: Hakan Arıkan, Serdar Kurtuluş (Higuaín 62), Mehmet Sedef (Ricardinho 78), Matías Delgado, Bobô, Diatta, Cissé, İbrahim Üzülmez, Serdar Özkan (Ali Tandoğan 46), Koray Avci, İbrahim Toraman. *registered to play for the club in this season's competition Form guide • Liverpool are unbeaten in five home matches against Turkish sides (W4 D1). • Beşiktaş have already taken on English opponents this season, drawing 1-1 away and winning 1-0 at home against Tottenham Hotspur FC in the UEFA Europa League group stage and losing 1-0 on aggregate to Arsenal FC in the UEFA Champions League play-offs. • Liverpool have not won in their last five European games (D2 L3), and went out to FC Zenit (on away goals) in their last round of 32 tie in 2012/13. Trivia and links • Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard may be playing his final UEFA club competition campaign having agreed to leave for LA Galaxy in the summer. • Beşiktaş striker Demba Ba knows English football well from his time with West Ham United FC, Newcastle United FC and Chelsea FC. He scored twice in five matches against Liverpool (W3 D1 L1). • Beşiktaş winger Kerim Koyunlu also appeared in the English leagues with Fulham FC and Cardiff City AFC, tasting both victory and defeat against Liverpool. • Liverpool's Emre Can and Samed Yeşil are both German players of Turkish extraction. • Liverpool (1973, 1976 and 2001) are among 11 former UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League winners in the round of 32. They are also among six last-32 contenders to have won the European Cup or UEFA Champions League. The coaches • Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers' professional playing career was over by the age of 20, a knee condition forcing the Northern Irish defender to move into coaching, where he initially worked in Reading FC's academy. He managed Watford FC and Reading before steering Swansea City AFC into the Premier League, and has been in charge at Anfield since June 2012. • Beşiktaş coach since June 2013, Slaven Bilić earned a bronze medal as a defender with Croatia at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and went on to lead his country to UEFA EURO 2008 and UEFA EURO 2012 as a coach. A rock music fan with a law degree, he was at the FC Lokomotiv Moskva helm before heading to Turkey. • Bilić played for Liverpool's local rivals Everton FC from 1997–99. 5 Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Match press kit Anfield, Liverpool Team facts Liverpool FC Formed: 1892 Nickname: The Reds UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup (5): 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, (1985), 2005, (2007) • UEFA Cup (3): 1973, 1976, 2001 • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: (1966) • UEFA Super Cup (3): 1977, (1978), (1984), 2001, 2005 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 18 (1990) FA Cup: 7 (2006) League Cup: 8 (2012) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: round of 32 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: round of 16 2009/10: semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2008/09: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2007/08: UEFA Champions League semi-finals 2006/07: UEFA Champions League runners-up 2005/06: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2004/05: UEFA Champions League winners Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 11-0: Liverpool v Strømgodset IF 17/09/74, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 0-5 three times, most recently v FC Haka 08/08/01, UEFA Champions League third qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Liverpool v Real Madrid CF 22/10/14, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: AFC Ajax v Liverpool 07/12/66, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round first leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-0: Liverpool v Real Sociedad de Fútbol 04/11/75, second round second leg • Biggest away win 3-5: BSC Young Boys v Liverpool 20/09/12, group stage 2-4: PFC Levskia Sofia v Liverpool 03/03/04, third round second leg 1-3 three times, most recently v FC Unirea Urziceni 25/02/10, round of 32 second leg 0-2 twice, most recently v AS Roma 15/02/01, fourth round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: Liverpool v Celtic FC 23/03/03, quarter-final second leg 6 Liverpool FC - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 19 February 2015 - 21.05CET