FCSB v Lugano background
With gift for a turn of 32 hermetic after matchday four, FCSB will be eyeing tip mark in Group G as they perform a Lugano side that can no longer make it over a organisation stage.
• The Romanian organisation need a win to gurantee going by as organisation winners, nonetheless any outcome will do if associate qualifiers Viktoria Plzeň, who route them by a indicate and have an defective head-to-head record, do not win divided to Hapoel Beer-Sheva.
Previous meetings
• Lugano’s initial confront with Romanian opponents did not finish as desired, with FCSB defeating them 2-1 in Switzerland on matchday two. Mattia Bottani put a hosts forward on 14 minutes, yet second-half goals from Constantin Budescu and Júnior Morais incited a compare in foster of a visitors.
• FCSB’s record in 13 meetings with Swiss clubs stands during W4 D7 L2. They have nonetheless to remove any of their 6 games during home (W3 D3), yet a final dual have both been drawn.
Form guide
• FCSB are dominant in 5 UEFA Europa League organisation games during home (W2 D3), yet they have won usually once in Romania opposite European antithesis this deteriorate (D2 L1). Their matchday 6 record in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre is W1 D2 L3.
• FCSB have competent with 10 points. Their top points total in 6 prior UEFA Europa League organisation theatre adventures is 11, that they achieved in 2012/13 – a usually time they have left by as territory winners.
• In 11 European divided matches to date, Lugano have warranted usually one win (D2 L8) and scored usually 4 goals. That sole feat came during Internazionale Milano in a 1-0 second-leg success in a 1995/96 UEFA Cup initial round, giving a Swiss bar a famous 2-1 total win.
• Beaten 5-1 on total by Sporting CP in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, 2016/17 Romanian joining runners-up FCSB are competing in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a seventh time given a contest insincere a stream format in 2009/10 – a record they share with Salzburg. They have now reached a knockout proviso 3 times.
• Third in Switzerland final term, Lugano – from a Italian-speaking Ticino canton – have been absent from UEFA foe given 2002/03 and have never before featured in a organisation stage.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Lugano to Bucharest is around 1,350km.
• FCSB striker Harlem Gnohéré started his career in a reduce leagues in Switzerland with La Tour/Le Pâquier, Bulle and Urania Genève Sport.
• This is FCSB’s 42nd diversion in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre – a foe high that they share with Salzburg.
• FCSB’s Constantin Budescu sits out this diversion by suspension.
• Suspended for subsequent diversion if booked: Mihai Pintilii, Dennis Man (FCSB).
The coaches
• Nicolae Dică returned to FCSB as manager in May 2017, carrying served a bar as a actor in dual prior spells, alighting dual titles – and a serve one with CFR Cluj. The aggressive midfielder also played in Italy, Greece and Turkey.
• Pierluigi Tami took assign of Lugano for a second time in Jun 2017, a Italian-born defender carrying spent his whole veteran career in Switzerland. Notably, he assisted Ottmar Hitzfeld during his spell as inhabitant coach.