Apollon v Everton background
Apollon and Everton will tighten their European campaigns with this UEFA Europa League Group E assembly in Nicosia.
• Neither organisation has managed a win in a section, with Everton, who are visiting Cyprus for a initial time, needing to finish that record to equivocate holding a group’s wooden spoon.
Previous meetings
• The sides drew 2-2 during Goodison Park on matchday two, a late header from Apollon’s Spanish defender Héctor Yuste denying Everton feat after they had recovered from Adrián Sardinero’s early idea to lead by new signings Wayne Rooney and Nikola VlaÅ¡ić.
• Apollon mislaid 8-2 on total to Everton’s arch-rivals Liverpool in a 1992/93 European Cup Winners’ Cup first-round tie – their usually other encounters with English opposition.
Form guide
• Apollon’s 4-0 better during Lyon on matchday five halted a run of 12 European fixtures in that they had scored during slightest one goal. They are 9 home games dominant in Europe (W5 D4).
• Everton are though a feat in 6 European games (D2 L4) and have mislaid any of their final 3 divided matches in a UEFA Europa League proper – organisation theatre to final – by a three-goal margin.
• Everton’s 5-1 better by Atalanta on matchday five was their heaviest during home in Europe; it was also a third time they had conceded 5 goals in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final. Only Gent (four times) have finished so some-more often.
• Apollon competed in back-to-back UEFA Europa League organisation stages in 2013/14 and 2014/15, though have never done it to a turn of 32. They finished third in Cyprus final season, violence champions APOEL in a domestic crater final.
• Seventh in a 2016/17 Premier League, Everton’s ideal record of UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation theatre education is now over, a Merseysiders carrying done serve swell on any of their 3 prior participations.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Liverpool to Nicosia, where Apollon are personification their European home games, is around 3,500km.
• Apollon’s Brazilian midfielder Allan is on loan from Everton’s neighbours Liverpool.
• Apollon’s French defender Valentin Roberge and Everton’s Jordan Pickford were both on a books during Sunderland (2013–16) though never played a comparison diversion together.
• Roberge became a initial actor to be sent off in this season’s organisation theatre when he was discharged during Everton on matchday two.
• Rooney was a UEFA Europa League leader with Manchester United final season.
• Everton’s Morgan Schneiderlin is accessible after a one-game ban.
The coaches
• Sofronis Avgousti has coached home-town organisation Apollon given 2016, carrying formerly served a bar in 3 apart spells as a goalkeeper. The 11-times capped general was also on a books during AEK Larnaca, Aris Limassol and APOEL.
• Everton allocated gifted former England trainer Sam Allardyce as their new manager on 29 November, over 5 weeks after sacking Ronald Koeman. Club brave David Unsworth had been in caretaker assign in a inserted period.