UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2015/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Olimpico - Rome Thursday 1 October 2015 19.00CET (19.00 local time) SS Lazio Group G - Matchday 2 AS Saint-Étienne Last updated 21/03/2016 09:31CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 SS Lazio - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams SS Lazio - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Olympique de Marseille - SS 3-0 Niang 60, Mendoza 03/08/2005 SF Marseille Lazio agg: 4-1 61, Ribéry 65 SS Lazio - Olympique de 27/07/2005 SF 1-1 Rome Di Canio 42; Méïté 70 Marseille UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/10/2001 GS1 FC Nantes - SS Lazio 1-0 Nantes André 72 Couto 7; Fabbri 3, 19/09/2001 GS1 SS Lazio - FC Nantes 1-3 Rome Armand 63, Ziani 86 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers S. Inzaghi 17, 37, 38, SS Lazio - Olympique de 14/03/2000 GS2 5-1 Rome 71, Bokšić 82; Leroy Marseille 50 Olympique de Marseille - SS Stanković 64, 24/11/1999 GS2 0-2 Marseille Lazio Conceição 77 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-2 Guivarc'h 39, 85; 17/03/1998 QF AJ Auxerre - SS Lazio Auxerre agg: 2-3 Mancini 7, Gottardi 13 03/03/1998 QF SS Lazio - AJ Auxerre 1-0 Rome Casiraghi 63 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 24/09/1996 R1 SS Lazio - RC Lens Rome Fuser 44; Šmicer 67 agg: 2-1 10/09/1996 R1 RC Lens - SS Lazio 0-1 Lens Chamot 85 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-2 Maurice 22, 31/10/1995 R2 SS Lazio - Olympique Lyonnais Rome agg: 1-4 Assadourian 58 Devaux 15, Deplace 17/10/1995 R2 Olympique Lyonnais - SS Lazio 2-1 Lyon 65; Winter 23 2 SS Lazio - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Six 45, 57, 115 ET, 6-0 Bousdira 109 ET, 02/11/1977 R2 RC Lens - SS Lazio Lens agg 6-2 (aet) Djeballi 118 ET, 119 ET Wilson 30, Agostinelli 19/10/1977 R2 SS Lazio - RC Lens 2-0 Rome 31 AS Saint-Étienne - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Saint-Étienne - FC 06/11/2014 GS 1-1 Saint-Etienne Sall 50; Dodô 33 Internazionale Milano FC Internazionale Milano - AS 23/10/2014 GS 0-0 Milan Saint-Étienne European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Saint-Étienne - Cagliari 1-0 30/09/1970 R1 Saint-Etienne Larqué 33 Calcio agg: 1-3 Cagliari Calcio - AS Saint- Riva 7, 70, De 16/09/1970 R1 3-0 Cagliari Étienne Carvalho 19 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SS Lazio 7 3 2 2 7 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 14 5 3 6 17 22 AS Saint-Étienne 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 2 1 2 4 3 SS Lazio - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Match background Low scorers in recent European home games, SS Lazio will hope to rediscover their touch in UEFA Europa League Group G as AS Saint-Étienne contest their 50th fixture in the competition. Previous meetings • The sides are meeting for the first time in UEFA competition. • Lazio's 14 games against French clubs have ended W5 D3 L6 (W3 D2 L2 at home – W2 D1 L4 in France). • St-Étienne's four matches against Italian sides have ended W1 D2 L1 (W1 D1 L0 at home – W0 D1 L1 in Italy). They have yet to score a competitive goal in Italy. Form guide • Lazio have scored just once in their last three European home games (W1 D1 L1). • St-Étienne held Rosenborg BK 2-2 in their Group G opener, having kicked off last season's group stage with five straight draws: three 0-0s and then two 1-1s. • Lazio have successfully navigated their way through their last three UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns, having missed out on the round of 32 in their first two attempts: in 2004/05 and 2009/10. • St-Étienne made it through the UEFA Cup group stage at the first attempt in 2008/09 but missed the cut last season in their first UEFA Europa League group stage tilt. • With 30 goals, Lazio's Miroslav Klose is the seventh-highest scoring German player in UEFA club competition history. Trivia and links • The journey from Saint-Etienne to Rome is around 750km. • This is St-Étienne's 50th UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League game: the previous 49 ended W20 D15 L14. • Lazio's Ravel Morrison and St-Étienne's Benoît Assou-Ekotto were team-mates at Queen's Park Rangers FC for the latter part of the 2013/14 season, when QPR won promotion to the Premier League. • St-Étienne's Florentin Pogba is the brother of Serie A star Paul Pogba. • Lazio's Filip Djordjević played in France for FC Nantes from 2008-14. The coaches • A central defender, with Juventus and ACF Fiorentina among others, Stefano Pioli took charge of Lazio in 2014. He has been a coach in Italy's top two divisions since 2003, his clubs including home-town side Parma FC, AC Chievo Verona and most recently Bologna FC. • St-Étienne coach since 2009, Christophe Galtier led Les Verts to French League Cup success in 2012/13. A defender, he started his playing career at home-town club Olympique de Marseille. He returned to Marseille as a coach and worked as assistant to Alain Perrin at St-Étienne before getting the senior job. 4 SS Lazio - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Team facts SS Lazio Formed: 1900 Nickname: Biancocelesti (White and Sky Blues) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1999 • UEFA Cup: (1998) • UEFA Super Cup (1): 1999 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 2 (2000) Italian Cup: 6 (2013) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: round of 32 2012/13: quarter-finals 2011/12: round of 32 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA competition 2007/08: UEFA Champions League group stage 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA competition 2005/06: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: Lazio v FK Rabotnicki 18/08/11, UEFA Europa League play-off first leg • Biggest away win 0-4 on four occasions, most recently v PFC Levski Sofia 01/10/09, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Lazio v Chelsea FC 04/11/03, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-0: RC Lens v Lazio 02/11/77, UEFA Cup second round second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 6-0: Lazio v FK Rabotnicki (see above) • Biggest away win 0-4 twice, most recently v PFC Levski Sofia (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Lazio v FC Barcelona 22/10/75, second round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-0: RC Lens v Lazio (see above) AS Saint-Étienne Formed: 1919 Nickname: Les Verts (The Greens) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup: (1976) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) Domestic title: 10 (1981) 5 SS Lazio - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome French Cup: 6 (1977) French League Cup: 1 (2013) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2014/15: group stage 2013/14: play-offs 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: round of 16 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2005/06: UEFA Intertoto Cup third round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-0: St-Étienne v KuPS Kuopio 01/01/80, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-7: KuPS Kuopio v St-Étienne 17/09/80, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-4 twice, most recently v Ipswich Town FC 04/03/81, UEFA Cup quarter-final first leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0 twice, most recently v Bohemians 1905 03/11/82, UEFA Cup second round second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 7-0: St-Étienne v KuPS Kuopio (see above) • Biggest away win 0-7: KuPS Kuopio v St-Étienne (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-4 twice, most recently v Ipswich Town FC (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Bohemians 1905 v St-Étienne (see above) 6 SS Lazio - AS Saint-Étienne Thursday 1 October 2015 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Squad list SS Lazio Current season All-time UCL UEL League UEL UEFA No.