Dynamo Kyiv and Partizan duel for Group B supremacy
With their places in a knockout proviso already assured, a vigour is off both Dynamo Kyiv and Partizan as they accommodate in a Ukrainian collateral to interpretation their successful Group B campaigns.
• First place stays adult for grabs, however, with Dynamo wanting usually equivocate improved to take that honour, since feat for Partizan would capacitate them to leapfrog their hosts to a summit.
Previous meetings
• Dynamo got a improved of Partizan on matchday two, coming from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in Belgrade. Two goals from Júnior Moraes and a Vitaliy Buyalskiy strike left a Serbian side disorder after Ognjen Ožegović and Leandre Tawamba had given them a 2-0 half-time lead.
• The teams’ usually confront before to that was in a initial turn of a 1976/77 European Champion Clubs’ Cup, when Valeriy Lobanovskiy’s Dynamo kick Tomislav Kaloperović’s Partizan 3-0 during home and 2-0 in Belgrade.
• Partizan’s altogether record in 9 meetings with Ukrainian clubs is W2 D1 L6.
• Dynamo separated Partizan’s neighbours Crvena zvezda on divided goals after 0-0 and 1-1 draws in a 2000/01 UEFA Champions League qualifier, and are dominant in 5 meetings with Serbian opponents: W3 D2.
Form guide
• Dynamo are dominant in 5 European home games (W4 D1), carrying racked adult 17 goals in those fixtures. Although defeated 3-2 during Skënderbeu final time out, they have won 9 of their final 12 UEFA Europa League organisation matches (D1 L2).
• Partizan are dominant in 7 UEFA divided games (W2 D5), surrender usually 4 goals during that run. They have mislaid usually once on their travels in 5 UEFA Europa League organisation encounters, sketch both fixtures this season.
• 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 a organisation stage.
• Dynamo have now competent from a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fourth time (out of 5 participations), and for a third in a row.
• Serbian joining and crater winners in 2016/17, Partizan are by to a turn of 32 for a initial time in 5 attempts, securing prime European football for a initial time in 13 years.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Belgrade to Kyiv is around 1,000km.
• Dynamo’s Serbian defender Aleksandar Pantić started out as a trainee during Partizan though never done a comparison coming for a club, representing their city rivals Rad (2011–12) and Crvena zvezda (2012–13) before relocating abroad. Pantić played with Partizan’s Lazar Ćirković during Rad.
• Dynamo striker Dieumerci Mbokani needs one some-more idea to strech 20 in European bar competition.
• Dynamo’s Vitaliy Buyalskiy and Partizan’s Zoran ToÅ¡ić are both authorised again after being dangling on matchday five.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Artem Kravets (Dynamo); Ognjen Ožegović, Leandre Tawamba, Everton Bilher, Nemanja Miletić II (No26) (Partizan).
The coaches
• Hired as manager in Jul 2017, Aleksandr Khatskevich won 7 joining titles as a Dynamo actor between 1996 and 2004, and after worked with a club’s girl and haven teams. The 38-times capped general coached his local Belarus from 2014 to 2016.
• Miroslav Djukić was reserved a second army as Partizan manager in Jun 2017, carrying assigned a helm in 2007. The 48-times capped Yugoslavia sweeper played in Spain with Deportivo and Valencia, and spent most of a final decade coaching there too.