Athletic v Hertha background
Athletic Club and Hertha Berlin both have work to do if they are to pierce from a bottom half of UEFA Europa League Group J to a tip in their final dual matches.
• Third-placed Athletic’s predestine can't be hermetic possibly approach on matchday five, though a better for Hertha would finish a German club’s hopes of reaching a turn of 32.
Previous meetings
• The sides’ initial UEFA confront on matchday one ended in a goalless draw at Berlin’s Olympiastadion.
• In their usually pairing with Liga opponents before to that, Hertha drew 1-1 during home to Barcelona in a 1999/2000 UEFA Champions League second organisation stage, though mislaid 3-1 during Camp Nou.
• Athletic’s record in 11 European matches with German teams is W4 D3 L4. At home it is W2 D2 L1.
Form guide
• Athletic have won 7 of their final 8 European fixtures in Bilbao, a difference being the 1-0 better by Zorya on matchday two. That was a usually one of their final 17 European home games in that they have unsuccessful to score.
• Hertha have mislaid their final 4 divided matches in European competition, surrender 10 goals and scoring usually two.
• Seventh in Spain final term, Athletic have successfully negotiated 5 of their 6 UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League organisation stages, including any of a final two. They were losing finalists in a 1976/77 UEFA Cup and 2011/12 UEFA Europa League.
• Sixth in Germany final season, Hertha done it by a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre on their many new appearance, in 2009/10, though were separated by Brøndby in final year’s third subordinate round.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Berlin to Bilbao is around 1,600km.
• Athletic have let in 82 goals in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final – some-more than any other club.
• Athletic’s Raúl GarcÃa was a 2009/10 UEFA Europa League leader with Atlético Madrid.
• Athletic’s Aritz Aduriz top-scored in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League with 10 goals, and became usually a third actor to strech 20 goals in a foe proper – after Radamel Falcao and Óscar Cardozo – when he struck the leader during home to Östersund on matchday four.
• Hertha’s Salomon Kalou was a 2011/12 UEFA Champions League leader with Chelsea.
• Athletic defender Unai Nuñez is dangling for this diversion after his red label during home to Östersund on matchday four.
The coaches
• Better famous as ‘Cuco’, José Ãngel Ziganda was a brazen for Osasuna and Athletic Club, and guided a Pamplona side to a 2006/07 UEFA Cup semi-finals as coach. He was handed a Athletic pursuit in May 2017 after a six-year spell as B group boss.
• Pál Dárdai assimilated Hertha as a actor in 1997 and done a club-record 366 joining appearances for Die Alte Dame. He coached Hertha’s girl group – and his local Hungary’s comparison side – for a time before holding a categorical pursuit during a Berlin bar in 2015.