Salzburg v Lazio background
Lazio finished Salzburg’s 19-game dominant European run with a 4-2 attainment in Rome and now find to gain on that advantage in what will be a initial UEFA Europa League quarter-final compare to be staged in Austria.
• Salzburg, with 57 matches in a UEFA Europa League correct behind them, are creation their initial entrance 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.
• Lazio, who are personification their 56th UEFA Europa League fixture, 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.
Previous meetings
• A stirring initial leg in a Stadio Olimpico seemed to be streamer to an uniformly offset end as Salzburg twice came from behind, Valon Berisha’s chastisement equalising Senad LulÃc’s opener in a initial half before Takumi Minamino replied to Marco Parolo’s 49th-minute bid seconds after entrance on as a substitute. However, dual breakaway goals in 3 mins from Felipe Anderson and Ciro Immobile eventually swung a tie in Lazio’s favour.
• A Salzburg side including stream players Andreas Ulmer and Christoph Leitgeb degraded a Lazio organisation 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.
• Apart from those dual victories opposite Lazio, Salzburg have won usually once in 11 other matches opposite Italian sides – divided to Udinese in a 2003/04 UEFA Cup initial turn – and have a home record opposite Serie A antithesis of W1 D1 L4. 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 0-4 detriment during home to Parma in a initial leg of a 2003/04 UEFA Cup second turn is a club’s corner heaviest European home defeat. They also mislaid a relapse 5-0, that stays a club’s corner biggest defeat, home or away, in UEFA competition.
• Lazio’s record in 7 matches opposite Austrian opponents is W4 L3 (W2 L1 away), a first-leg attainment opposite Salzburg finale a run of 3 unbroken defeats. However, they have been jubilant in any of their dual prior 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).
Form guide
• Salzburg were dominant in 19 European matches (W11 D8) until their 4-2 first-leg detriment in Rome. They do, however, sojourn undefeated in 9 UEFA matches during home (W6 D3), during that they have scored 16 goals and conceded usually two.
• Having come undefeated by a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a record fourth time, this is Salzburg’s initial entrance in a final eight. Their usually prior European quarter-final coming 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.
• 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 mislaid dual of their final 3 European fixtures outward Italy, opposite Zulte Waregem (2-3) and FCSB (0-1), carrying formerly equalled a UEFA Europa League record, organisation theatre to final, by going 11 unbroken divided matches dominant (W4 D7). Their many new divided tie in a foe brought a 2-0 win during Dynamo Kyiv.
• This is a Rome side’s second entrance 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. The 3 that they won all came after they avoided better on their travels (W2 D1), given a 3 that they mislaid all enclosed an divided loss.
• 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 have won 5 and mislaid 9 of a 14 UEFA foe ties in that they were degraded in a divided initial leg. They have never formerly mislaid 4-2 divided in a initial leg, though on a 4 occasions that a domain of better has been by dual goals, they have prevailed usually once, recuperating to win 3-0 during home opposite Sporting CP in a third turn of a 1993/94 UEFA Cup – they went on to finish as runners-up in a competition.
• Lazio have won during home in a initial leg of a UEFA foe tie on 16 occasions and have left on to validate from 11 of them. They were on a run of 8 such successes until Bayer Leverkusen separated them from a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League play-offs (1-0 home, 0-3 away).
• The Biancocelesti have never formerly available a 4-2 first-leg win in Rome, though when they have triumphed during home by a two-goal domain they have left on to win a tie dual times out of three, many recently opposite Benfica (3-1 home, 1-0 away) in a 2003/04 UEFA Champions League third subordinate round.
Links and trivia
• 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 18th 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 17 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 58th 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), nonetheless Lazio have now outscored them, 91 goals to 90, in a foe to turn usually a third organisation (after Villarreal and Athletic) to record a century of goals in a UEFA Europa League proper.
• 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 2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final 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.
• Lazio’s Italy general striker Ciro Immobile scored a hat-trick in a 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 dual some-more to turn a competition’s corner second top scorer this deteriorate with 7 – one behind Athletic’s Aritz Aduriz – and a heading marksman from a 8 teams still involved.
• 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’s Hwang Hee-Chan earnings from a one-match anathema for this fixture, though team-mate Diadié Samassékou is incompetent by suspension.
• Suspended for subsequent diversion if booked: Munas Dabbur, Xaver Schlager, Stefan Lainer, Duje Ćaleta-Car (Salzburg); Ciro Immobile, Jordan Lukaku, Sergej Milinković-Savić, Luis Felipe, Dušan Basta, Senad Lulić, Marco Parolo (Lazio).
Penalty shoot-outs
• Salzburg’s record in dual UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W1 L1:
5-4 v Eintracht Frankfurt, 1993/94 UEFA Cup quarter-final
2-3 v Dinamo Minsk, 2015/16 UEFA Europa League play-off
• Lazio have nonetheless to underline in a UEFA chastisement shoot-out.
The coaches
• 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.
• 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.