Skënderbeu v Dynamo Kyiv background
Bottom hosts tip in UEFA Europa League Group B as Skënderbeu find their initial win of a territory opposite a Dynamo Kyiv side that became a initial organisation to bind gift for a turn of 32 on matchday four.
• Dynamo competent interjection to a 1-0 win during Young Boys final time out and will go by as organisation winners should they finish a purify brush of divided victories. Indeed, any outcome in Elbasan would be good adequate to pledge a Ukrainian side initial place with a diversion to gangling should Partizan destroy to win a other Group B confront during home to Young Boys.
Previous meetings
• Dynamo came from a idea down to kick Skënderbeu 3-1 in Kyiv on matchday one, goals from Serhiy Sydorchuk, Júnior Moraes and Dieumerci Mbokani (penalty) saying them home after Gjergji Muzaka had given a visitors a startle lead. It was Dynamo’s initial confront opposite Albanian opposition.
• In their usually prior tie opposite Ukrainian opponents, Skënderbeu traded 1-0 home wins with Chornomorets Odesa in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League play-offs before losing on penalties in Tirana.
Form guide
• Skënderbeu have not won in 6 European fixtures (D4 L2), sketch a final 3 during home, and have claimed only one win in 10 UEFA Europa League organisation games, losing 7 of them. They are, however, dominant in 6 European matches on Albanian dirt this tenure (W3 D3).
• Dynamo have not mislaid a European tie this season, winning 4 and sketch dual of their 6 encounters. They have won 9 of their final 11 UEFA Europa League organisation games (D1 L1).
• Domestic crater runners-up final term, Skënderbeu were a initial Albanian side to foe a vital UEFA organisation theatre when they featured in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League.
• Ukrainian Premier League runners-up in 2016/17, Dynamo reached a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals in 2010/11 and 2014/15, when they final competed in this organisation stage.
• Dynamo have now finished their fourth successful UEFA Europa League organisation theatre (out of 5 participations) and their third in a row.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Kyiv to Elbasan, where Skënderbeu are personification their European home games, is around 1,300km.
• Skënderbeu’s Tefik Osmani (Metalurh Zaporizhya 2005–06) and Kristi Vangjeli (Chornomorets 2011–13) have both played joining football in Ukraine.
• Skënderbeu are one of 3 teams to have reached a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre carrying begun their debate in a initial subordinate round; Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Crvena zvezda are a others.
• Skënderbeu goalkeeper Orges Shehi is a ninth actor over a age of 40 to have played in a UEFA Europa League and a oldest member in this season’s competition.
• Dynamo striker Mbokani, whose 32nd birthday is on a eve of this fixture, needs one some-more idea to strech 20 in European bar competition.
• Vitaliy Buyalskiy, Dynamo’s match-winner during Young Boys, is dangling for this compare after collecting his third yellow label of a organisation theatre in that game.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Gledi Mici and Bajram Jashanica (Skënderbeu); Artem Kravets (Dynamo).
The coaches
• Appointed in Jan 2017, Ilir Daja led Skënderbeu to a Albanian Cup final, that they mislaid to KF Tirana, and afterwards directed them into this organisation stage. A former midfielder with Tirana, he has guided Elbasan and Dinamo Tirana to domestic championships as a coach.
• Hired as manager in Jul 2017, Aleksandr Khatskevich won 7 joining titles as a Dynamo actor from 1996–2004, and after worked with a club’s girl and haven teams. The 38-times capped general coached his local Belarus from 2014–16.