Lokomotiv Moskva v København background
København will wish to safety a flawless record in a Russian collateral as they take on Lokomotiv Moskva in a pivotal UEFA Europa League Group F encounter.
• An divided win would send a Danish bar by to a turn of 32. It would also discharge Lokomotiv if Sheriff, turn on 6 points during a tip of a organisation standings with København, take 3 points from a other organisation compare during home to bottom side ZlÃn.
Previous meetings
• The dual clubs played out a goalless draw on matchday one in Copenhagen.
• In manager StÃ¥le Solbakken’s initial spell in assign of a club, København kick Rinat Bilyaletdinov’s Lokomotiv 1-0 in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup organisation theatre diversion in Moscow, Morten Nordstrand’s chastisement proof decisive.
• Lokomotiv have won 5 of their 7 matches opposite Danish sides, a usually exceptions being those dual games opposite København.
• København have mislaid usually one of their 6 games opposite Russian teams (W3 D2 L1) and have a ideal record in Moscow, carrying also degraded FC Moskva 2-1 there in a initial turn of a 2008/09 UEFA Cup.
Form guide
• Lokomotiv have won one and mislaid one of their dual home games in a group. When they final seemed in a UEFA Europa League organisation stage, in 2015/16, their home record was W1 D1 L1.
• København have scored usually once in their final 4 European divided fixtures and have won usually dual of their 14 UEFA Europa League organisation games staged outward Copenhagen (D6 L6). Their winless strain for such matches now station during 5 (D3 L2).
• Lokomotiv are contesting a UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fifth time and have unsuccessful usually once to strech a turn of 32, finishing bottom of their organisation in 2007/08.
• Defeated on divided goals by QarabaÄŸ in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, København have unsuccessful to swell in any of their final 3 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns. They did, however, strech a turn of 16 in final season’s competition, carrying crossed over during a winter from a UEFA Champions League.
Links and trivia
• The tour easterly from Copenhagen to Moscow is usually over 1,550km.
• On-loan Lokomotiv brazen Éder scored a extra-time leader for Portugal in a UEFA EURO 2016 final opposite France.
• Lokomotiv’s Manuel Fernandes scored a second hat-trick of a 2017/18 organisation stage, attack 3 in a opening 17 mins opposite ZlÃn on matchday two. It was a fifth fastest three-way in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Vladislav Ignatyev (Lokomotiv); Zeca (København).
The coaches
• Yuri Semin took assign of Lokomotiv for a fourth time in Aug 2016, carrying carried a club’s usually dual Russian titles during his second army from 1992 to 2005. He also played for a club, from 1975–77, and coached Dynamo Kyiv to a 2008/09 Ukrainian championship.
• StÃ¥le Solbakken’s second coaching reign during København began in 2013. He has won 7 Danish titles with FCK, 5 of those carrying come in his initial spell from 2006–11. The former Norway midfielder has also been in assign of Köln and Wolverhampton Wanderers.