Lazio v Salzburg background
Two gifted UEFA Europa League campaigners come face to face in Rome for a initial leg of this quarter-final as Lazio bid to move an finish to a prolonged dominant European run of Austrian champions Salzburg.
• Lazio, who are participating in their 55th UEFA Europa League encounter, organisation theatre to final, won Group K in a autumn before entrance from behind to discharge Romania’s FCSB in a turn of 32 and afterwards disposing of Dynamo Kyiv 4-2 on total in a final 16.
• Salzburg, with 56 matches in a UEFA Europa League correct behind them, are creation their initial coming in a quarter-finals. They finished tip of their organisation – for a record fourth time – before expelling both Real Sociedad and Borussia Dortmund by a peculiar idea in a initial dual knockout rounds.
Previous meetings
• A Salzburg side including stream players Andreas Ulmer and Christoph Leitgeb degraded a Lazio organisation featuring featuring Åžtefan Radu 2-1 in both of a club’s prior encounters, that took place in a 2009/10 UEFA Europa League organisation stage. A matchday one attainment in Italy, hermetic by Marc Janko’s added-time strike, was followed by a repeat opening in Austria as Salzburg went by to a turn of 32 – during Lazio’s responsibility – with a limit transport of 18 points.
• Lazio’s record in 6 matches opposite Austrian opponents is W3 L3 (W1 L2 during home), and they are on a run of 3 unbroken defeats. However, they have been jubilant in any of their dual knockout ties, defeating Rapid Wien in a third turn of a 1997/98 UEFA Cup (3-0 aggregate) and Sturm Graz during a same theatre of a same foe 5 years after (3-2 agg).
• Other than their dual victories opposite Lazio, Salzburg have won usually once in 10 other matches opposite Italian sides – divided to Udinese in a 2003/04 UEFA Cup initial turn – and have an divided record opposite Serie A antithesis of W2 D1 L3. Their usually European final appearance, in a 1993/94 UEFA Cup, finished with better by an Italian club, Internazionale violence them 1-0 in both legs.
• Salzburg’s 5-0 detriment during Parma in a 2003/04 UEFA Cup second turn is a club’s corner heaviest European defeat. They had mislaid a initial leg 4-0, still their corner biggest home better in UEFA competition.
Form guide
• Lazio, who have competent for a UEFA Europa League knockout proviso in any of their final 5 participations – after that initial relapse in 2009/10 – have won 8 of their final 11 European home games, losing usually one.
• This is a Rome side’s second coming in a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals. They mislaid their usually prior tie during this theatre to Fenerbahçe in 2012/13 (0-2 away, 1-1 home).
• Lazio have won 3 and mislaid 3 of their 6 European quarter-finals, though they have won a home leg in 5 of them, all but conceding, a usually difference that 1-1 pull opposite Fenerbahçe.
• UEFA Cup runners-up in 1998, and UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and UEFA Super Cup winners a following year, Lazio are competing in a UEFA Europa League after a one-season absence, carrying done it behind interjection to a fifth-place finish in Serie A final term.
• Salzburg are dominant in their final 19 European matches (W11 D8), given a 1-0 better during home to Nice on matchday 3 of final season’s UEFA Europa League. That includes a run of 10 games but better on their travels (W5 D5), during that they have scored 16 goals and conceded usually six. Their many new divided tie brought a famous 2-1 win during Dortmund – a club’s initial attainment on German soil.
• Having come undefeated by a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a record fourth time, this is Salzburg’s initial coming in a final eight. Their usually prior quarter-final appearance resulted in a chastisement shoot-out delight opposite Eintracht Frankfurt (after any had won 1-0 during home) in a 1993/94 UEFA Cup.
• Salzburg’s benefaction of usually one idea in a organisation theatre equalled another UEFA Europa League record, set by Standard Liège in 2011/12, nonetheless a 7 goals they scored amounted to a lowest series purebred by any of this season’s 12 organisation winners.
• Austrian joining and crater double winners for a past 4 seasons, and 1994 UEFA Cup runners-up, Salzburg missed a cut in final year’s UEFA Europa League organisation theatre – after subsequent in their prior 3 attempts.
Links and trivia
• This diversion takes place on Lazio manager Simone Inzaghi’s 42nd birthday.
• Lazio’s Italy general striker Ciro Immobile scored a hat-trick in Lazio’s turn of 32 second leg opposite FCSB on his initial start in this season’s competition. His dual goals in a organisation stage, opposite Vitesse and Zulte Waregem, came as a substitute. He has given combined another, during home to Dynamo Kyiv in a turn of 16.
• That 2-2 pull in a home leg opposite Dynamo was a 18th UEFA Europa League pull that Lazio have been concerned in, organisation theatre to final – a foe record.
• Salzburg are a usually reigning domestic champions left in a competition. They are also one of usually dual clubs among a quarter-finalists (alongside European debutants Leipzig) who have never carried a vital UEFA prize – nonetheless they did win final season’s UEFA Youth League, violence Benfica in a final underneath Marco Rose, a club’s stream comparison conduct coach.
• This is a Austrian club’s 17th European compare in 2017/18 – some-more than any other organisation in a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals. Defender Ulmer has been on a margin for each notation of a debate that began in a second subordinate turn of a UEFA Champions League, with striker Munas Dabbur also starting all 16 matches.
• Salzburg’s gift for this turn means that Austria are a 14th republic to be represented in a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals.
• This deteriorate Salzburg became a initial bar to win their UEFA Europa League organisation on 4 occasions. Eleven others have achieved a attainment 3 times.
• This is Salzburg’s 57th UEFA Europa League match, organisation theatre to final; usually Spanish clubs Villarreal (62) and Athletic Club (61) have played more. Their total of 29 wins is bettered usually by Villarreal (33), and their stream method of 13 matches but better in a foe correct is second usually to Atlético Madrid’s 15-match run from Nov 2011 to Oct 2012.
• Lazio (in 1998) and Salzburg (1994) have both been degraded in a UEFA Cup final by Internazionale.
• Salzburg’s Reinhold Yabo was a member of a German organisation that won a final of a 2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship 2-1 after additional time in Magdeburg opposite a Netherlands side that featured Lazio’s Stefan de Vrij.
• André Ramalho was a late surrogate for Bayer Leverkusen in a 3-0 home win opposite Lazio in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League play-offs.
• Salzburg’s Hwang Hee-Chan is dangling for this fixture.
• Suspended for subsequent diversion if booked: Ciro Immobile, Jordan Lukaku, Sergej Milinković-Savić, Luis Felipe (Lazio); Munas Dabbur, Xaver Schlager, Stefan Lainer, Duje Ćaleta-Car, Diadié Samassékou (Salzburg).
The coaches
• Lazio trainer given Apr 2016, when he transposed Stefano Pioli, Simone Inzaghi represented a bar as a brazen from 1999–2010, winning a Italian double in his entrance season. The younger hermit of associate ex-Italian general Filippo Inzaghi, with whom he played during home-town outfit Piacenza, he began coaching Lazio’s girl teams immediately after unresolved adult his boots.
• Previously Salzburg’s girl organisation boss, Marco Rose stepped adult to a comparison helm after prototype Óscar GarcÃa left in June, carrying led a bar to attainment in a 2016/17 UEFA Youth League. A defender with home-town bar Leipzig, Hannover and Mainz, he has been on Salzburg’s coaching staff given 2013.