Akhisar v Krasnodar facts
History beckons for Akhisar as a warn 2017/18 Turkish Cup winners make their entrance in European foe on matchday one of a 2018/19 UEFA Europa League, with Russian side Krasnodar their initial opponents.
Previous meetings
• Krasnodar’s usually prior knowledge of Turkish antithesis is a certain one as they overcame Fenerbahçe 2-1 on total (1-0 home, 1-1 away) in a 2016/17 UEFA Europa League turn of 32, a club’s initial win in a knockout proviso encounter. Swedish general Viktor Claesson scored a first-leg leader with his initial hold for Krasnodar on his bar debut.
Form guide
Akhisar
• Akhisar competent for their initial European debate – and an involuntary place in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre – with a startle 3-2 win over Fenerbahçe in a 2018 Turkish Cup final. They finished 11th in a joining – 9 places and 30 points behind their shining Istanbul opponents.
Krasnodar
• Krasnodar are comparatively new to European football themselves, though given creation their entrance in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League they have competent for a foe any deteriorate since, usually unwell to make a organisation theatre in 2017/18, when they mislaid a play-off to Crvena zvezda on divided goals. Fourth place in final season’s Russian Premier League cumulative their organisation theatre berth this term.
• Krasnodar were incompetent to swell from their organisation during a initial attempt, in 2014/15, though succeeded in both of a following dual seasons, durability until a turn of 32 in 2015/16 and a turn of 16 in 2016/17 interjection to that landmark feat over Fenerbahçe.
• The Russian bar have won one of their 3 divided fixtures in any of their UEFA Europa League organisation campaigns – opposite Everton (1-0) in 2014/15, Gabala (3-0) in 2015/16 and Salzburg (1-0) in 2016/17. Their altogether divided record in a competition, incompatible qualifying, is W3 D3 L6.
Links and trivia
• Akhisar’s Yevhen Seleznyov and Charles Kaboré of Krasnodar have both played for Krasnodar’s city rivals Kuban.
• Akhisar goalkeeper Milan LukaÄ and Krasnodar defender UroÅ¡ Spajić are associate Serbian internationals.
• The Turkish bar are one of 5 creation their entrance this deteriorate in a UEFA Europa League organisation stage. The other 4 are Dudelange, Jablonec, Sarpsborg and Spartak Trnava.
The coaches
• Appointed by Akhisarspor as their new conduct manager in a summer of 2018, replacing Turkish Cup-winning trainer Okan Buruk, Safet Sušić is an means user whose CV includes a five-year army in assign of a Bosnia and Herzegovina inhabitant side that incorporated an coming during a 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. An outstandingly means forward, he had long, prolific spells with Sarajevo and Paris Saint-Germain and also scored 21 goals in 54 matches for Yugoslavia.
• An FC Krasnodar male by and through, Murad Musaev done waves by heading a club’s Under-19s to a knockout proviso of a 2017/18 UEFA Youth League, where they were usually separated on penalties by Real Madrid in front of a foe record crowd. That feat helped him land a position of caretaker manager to a comparison side following Igor Shalimov’s exclusion in early Apr 2018. His position as a club’s new conduct manager was subsequently reliable during a summer.