Zulte Waregem v Lazio background
Zulte Waregem can no longer swell from Group K and will interpretation their debate during home to a Lazio side shutting in on a foe record.
• The Serie A bar have already cumulative tip mark in a section and will find to extend an dominant run in UEFA Europa League organisation theatre football that has lasted over 6 years.
Previous meetings
• Zulte Waregem’s initial confront with Italian opponents finished in better as they went down 2-0 to Lazio in Rome on matchday two, Felipe Caicedo and Ciro Immobile removing a goals.
• A span of 2000/01 UEFA Champions League second organisation theatre meetings with Anderlecht represents Lazio’s usually other knowledge of Belgian opposition: they mislaid 1-0 in Brussels though won 2-1 during home.
Form guide
• Zulte Waregem have won only one of their final 11 European home fixtures (D3 L7). They have also conceded 5 goals in dual of a final three, a 5-1 home detriment to Nice on matchday one being their heaviest home better in UEFA competition.
• Lazio are dominant in 27 UEFA Europa League organisation games (W17 D10) – given a 2-1 retreat during Sporting CP on matchday dual in 2011/12 – and have now competent for a knockout proviso in any of their final 5 participations.
• The Rome bar have left 11 unbroken divided fixtures though better in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final. Should they make it 12 opposite Zulte Waregem, they will set a new foe record, overtaking associate Italian side Fiorentina.
• Zulte Waregem claimed their second Belgian Cup in 2016/17. They done it by a UEFA Cup organisation theatre in 2006/07, though could not obey that success in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League.
• UEFA Cup runners-up in 1998 and UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup winners a following year, Lazio are behind in a UEFA Europa League after a one-season absence, carrying progressed to a final 16 in 2015/16.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Rome to Waregem is around 1,200km.
• Lazio contingent Jordan Lukaku (Anderlecht 2011–13, Oostende 2013–16), Sergej Milinković-Savić (Genk 2014/15) and Adam Marušić (Kortrijk 2014–16, Oostende 2016/17) all have Belgian joining experience. Like his comparison hermit Romelu (Manchester United), Lukaku is a Belgian international.
• Milinković-Savić and Zulte Waregem’s Sandy Walsh were team-mates during Genk (2014/15).
• Zulte Waregem have an Italian goalkeeper, Nicola Leali, who played for Brescia (2010–12) and Juventus (2012–16, including loan spells with Lanciano, Spezia, Cesena and Frosinone).
• The Belgian club’s Cypriot winger Grigoris Kastanos is also on loan from Juventus, carrying played for Pescara in Serie B in 2016/17.
• Zulte Waregem have Kingsley Madu accessible again.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Luis Felipe (Lazio).
The coaches
• Francky Dury’s second entrance as Zulte Waregem manager began in 2012, and he led them to a second Belgian Cup success final season. Zultse and – post-merger – Zulte Waregem trainer from 1994 to 2010, he had spells with Gent and Belgium’s Under-21 side before to his return.
• Lazio trainer given 2016, Simone Inzaghi represented a bar as a brazen between 1999 and 2010, and stayed on to manager a girl teams. He is a younger hermit of associate ex-Italian general Filippo Inzaghi, a span carrying primarily played together during home-town outfit Piacenza.