UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Sarpsborg Stadium - Sarpsborg Thursday 25 October 2018 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Sarpsborg 08 FF Group I - Matchday 3 Malmö FF Last updated 22/02/2019 15:13CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 15 Legend 16 1 Sarpsborg 08 FF - Malmö FF Thursday 25 October 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Sarpsborg Stadium, Sarpsborg Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Sarpsborg 08 FF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Sarpsborg 08 FF have not played against a club from their opponents' country Malmö FF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Malmö FF have not played against a club from their opponents' country 2 Sarpsborg 08 FF - Malmö FF Thursday 25 October 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Sarpsborg Stadium, Sarpsborg Match background With all four teams in UEFA Europa League Group I on three points after two games, Sarpsborg host Malmö in a Scandinavian derby of considerable intrigue and importance. • The two clubs both recovered from opening away defeats – Sarpsborg at Beşiktaş (1-3), Malmö at Genk (0-2) – to post home wins on matchday two, Sarpsborg overcoming their Belgian opponents 3-1 in Norway and Malmö defeating their Turkish visitors 2-0 in Sweden. Previous meetings • This is new terrain for both clubs in UEFA competition as Sarpsborg have never faced Swedish opposition and Malmö are taking on a Norwegian club for the first time. Form guide Sarpsborg • Formed in 2008, Sarpsborg enjoyed the best season of their short history in 2017, finishing third in the Eliteserien and reaching the final of the Norwegian Cup. The league position secured European involvement for the first time, and they have made the most of the opportunity, progressing all the way from the first qualifying round to the group phase. • After kicking off their European debut with a 6-0 aggregate win over Iceland's ÍBV, Sarpsborg used the away goals rule to get past Switzerland's St Gallen before overcoming Rijeka of Croatia 2-1 over two legs and then seeing off Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the play-offs (3-1 home, 1-2 away). • Sarpsborg's five home fixtures in Europe have yielded four wins and a draw, with ten goals scored and three conceded. They have won the last two matches 3-1. Malmö • Swedish champions for a record 20th time in 2017, Malmö began this season's European campaign in the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round. Their bid to reach the group stage of that competition for the third time in five years was halted on the away goals rule by Hungarian champions Vidi in the third qualifying round but they secured an autumn of European participation – as Sweden's sole representatives – by prevailing in another all- Scandinavian affair against Danish title holders Midtjylland in the UEFA Europa League play-offs. Their eight qualifying matches brought four wins and four draws. • Malmö's only previous UEFA Europa League group stage involvement was in 2011/12, when they opened with a 4-1 defeat at Dutch club AZ Alkmaar and never recovered, finishing bottom of the section with just one point. • The Swedish club have played ten away games in European group stages and lost the lot, always by a margin of more than one goal, with a total of 36 conceded. The matchday one defeat at Beşiktaş, however, was their first away loss this season following four qualifying matches in which they did not concede to their hosts. Links and trivia • Malmö coach Uwe Rösler was a player and coach with Lillestrøm and has also been in charge at fellow Norwegian clubs Viking and Molde. • Malmö's Andreas Vindheim has represented Norway at youth and Under-21 levels and started his career in Bergen with Brann. Other players from the Swedish side to have played in Norway are Johan Dahlin (Lyn 2006–09), Arnór Ingvi Traustason (Sandnes Ulf 2012) and Bonke Innocent (Lillestrøm 2014–17), while Sarpsborg's Harmeet Singh played for Swedish club Kalmar in 2017. • This is Malmö's ninth game in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final – a record for a Swedish club. • Sarpsborg are one of four clubs who began their successful journey to the UEFA Europa League group stage in the first qualifying round, the others being Apollon Limassol, FC København and Rangers. They are also one of five making their debut this season in the UEFA Europa League proper, along with Akhisar, Dudelange, Jablonec and Spartak Trnava. The coaches • A coaching career spent exclusively in his native Norway peaked for Geir Bakke when the Sarpsborg side he has led since January 2015 finished third in the 2017 Eliteserien to qualify for a first crack at European football and subsequently negotiated four qualifying ties to reach the UEFA Europa League group stage. Prior to joining Sarpsborg he was the assistant to Tor Ole Skullerud as Molde claimed their first Norwegian league and cup double in 2014. • Born in the former East Germany, Uwe Rösler left his homeland in 1994 to play up front for Manchester City, which he did for four years, thus forming a bond with English football that has brought him back to the country to manage four different lower-league clubs. His coaching career began in Norway, with Lillestrøm, his final club as a player, and in June 2018 he returned to Scandinavia to become the new head coach of reigning Swedish champions Malmö. 3 Sarpsborg 08 FF - Malmö FF Thursday 25 October 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Sarpsborg Stadium, Sarpsborg Team facts Sarpsborg 08 FF Formed: 2008 Nickname: 08 UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (latest triumph in brackets) None Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless otherwise indicated) 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA club competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 3-1 twice, most recently v Genk 04/10/18, UEFA Europa League group stage 2-0: Sarpsborg v ÍBV 19/07/18, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-4: ÍBV v Sarpsborg 12/07/18, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat 3-1: Beşiktaş v Sarpsborg 20/09/18, UEFA Europa League group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 3-1 twice, most recently v Genk (see above) 2-0: Sarpsborg v ÍBV (see above) • Biggest away win 0-4: ÍBV v Sarpsborg (see above) • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat 3-1: Beşiktaş v Sarpsborg (see above) Malmö FF Formed: 1910 Nickname: Di Blåe (The Blues), Himmelsblått (The Sky Blues) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup: (1979) • European/South American Cup: (1979) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 20 (2017) Swedish Cup: 14 (1989) 4 Sarpsborg 08 FF - Malmö FF Thursday 25 October 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Sarpsborg Stadium, Sarpsborg Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA competition 2015/16: UEFA Champions League group stage 2014/15: UEFA Champions League group stage 2013/14: third qualifying round 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 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 11-0: Malmö v Pezoporikos 03/10/73, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-7: Hibernian v Malmö 25/07/13, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Malmö v Paris Saint-Germain 25/11/15, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 8-0: Real Madrid v Malmö 08/12/15, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 5-0: Malmö v Shirak 29/07/98, first qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-7: Hibernian v Malmö (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-4 twice, most recently v Metalist 20/10/11, group stage • Heaviest away defeat 4-0 twice, most recently v Swansea 01/08/13, third qualifying round first leg 5 Sarpsborg 08 FF - Malmö FF Thursday 25 October 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Sarpsborg Stadium, Sarpsborg Squad list Sarpsborg 08 FF Current season All-time QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 31 Aslak Falch NOR 25/05/1992 26 - 3 - - - 17 - - - 3 - 50 Sander Thulin NOR 16/06/1999 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 78 Aleksandr Vasyutin RUS 04/03/1995 23 - 5 - 2 - 9 - 2 - 7 - Defenders 2 Sulayman Bojang NOR 03/09/1997 21 - - - - - 1 - - - - - 3 Jørgen Horn NOR 07/06/1987 31 - 1 - 1 - 4 1 3 - 11 2 4 Bjørn Utvik NOR 28/02/1996 22 - 3 - - - 9 - - - 3 - 5 Orri Ómarsson ISL 18/02/1995 23 - - - - - 1 - - - 6 - 6 Joonas Tamm EST 02/02/1992 26 - 6 - 2