ZlÃn v Lokomotiv Moskva background
ZlÃn can no longer validate for a turn of 32 though they will be seeking to skip a foe with their initial win in Group F as they perform Lokomotiv Moskva in Olomouc.
• Lokomotiv will validate with a victory, though any other outcome will leave them contingent on a outcome of a other organisation diversion between København and Sheriff. Lokomotiv will be by if FCK do not win; they will also ensue if they pull and a other compare finishes in anything other than a one-goal feat for København in that a Danes measure during slightest four.
Previous meetings
• Lokomotiv and ZlÃn had never played opposite opponents from a other’s nation when they met in Moscow on matchday two. The Russian side done home advantage count, winning 3-0 with 3 goals in a opening 17 mins from Manuel Fernandes. It was a fifth-fastest hat-trick scored in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final.
• The 29 games between Russian and Czech clubs in UEFA foe story have constructed 13 wins to 7 in Russia’s favour.
Form guide
• ZlÃn have unsuccessful to win any of their matches in this season’s foe (D2 L3) and have scored usually one goal.
• Lokomotiv have been degraded usually once in their final 8 divided fixtures in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre (W4 D3), scoring 16 goals during that run.
• ZlÃn won a Czech Cup for a initial time final season; a Å evci (Cobblers) have not played European football given a 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup and are creation their organisation theatre debut.
• 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.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Moscow to Olomouc, where ZlÃn are personification their European home games, is around 1,500km.
• ZlÃn’s Senegalese striker Dame Diop was on a books of Russian side Khimki in 2012/13 though never done a comparison appearance.
• On-loan Lokomotiv brazen Éder scored a extra-time leader for Portugal in a UEFA EURO 2016 final opposite France.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Vladislav Ignatyev, Taras Mikhalik (Lokomotiv).
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 1992–2005. He also played for a club, from 1975 to 1977, and coached Dynamo Kyiv to a 2008/09 Ukrainian championship.
• Bohumil PánÃk started his coaching career with ZlÃn in 2000, and returned to a bar in 2014, his adventures in between carrying enclosed spells with Lech PoznaÅ„ and PogoÅ„ Szczecin in Poland. He guided ZlÃn suddenly to Czech Cup excellence in 2016/17.