Vidi v BATE facts
The champions of Hungary and Belarus go conduct to conduct in Budapest on UEFA Europa League matchday one, with both Vidi and BATE Borisov carrying eliminated to a foe after losing their UEFA Champions League play-offs.
Previous meetings
• The clubs have met in one prior tie, BATE prevalent 2-1 on total in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League third subordinate turn (1-1 away, 1-0 home), with Paulo VinÃcius, who is still during Vidi, scoring a late equaliser for a Hungarian side in a home leg staged in Szekesfehervar.
• That is Vidi’s usually knowledge of Belarusian opposition, though BATE have also played 4 matches opposite Debrecen with a record W2 D1 L1. They won one and mislaid one of a dual games in Hungary.
Form guide
Vidi
• Vidi were Hungarian champions final deteriorate for a third time – after 2010/11 and 2014/15 – and were one step divided from a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre entrance after subordinate wins opposite Dudelange, Ludogorets and Malmö – 3 teams who have also found their approach into a UEFA Europa League organisation stage. However, a 3-2 total better by AEK Athens finished that partial of their 2018/19 European journey.
• Vidi reached a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre once before, in 2012/13. Although they progressed no further, they did collect 6 points interjection to landmark wins opposite Sporting CP (3-0) and Basel (2-1) in their opening dual home fixtures; they mislaid a third 0-1 to Genk.
• The club’s 8 European games this deteriorate have yielded usually dual wins – both during home – though their usually better in that run also came on Hungarian dirt when AEK Athens degraded them 2-1 in Budapest in a initial leg of a play-offs.
BATE
• Midway by competing in final season’s UEFA Europa League organisation theatre BATE clinched a Belarusian joining pretension for a 12th year in a row. They are behind in a same European foe carrying missed out on UEFA Champions League organisation theatre qualification, a span of 2-1 total victories over HJK Helsinki and QarabaÄŸ preceding a complicated play-off better by PSV Eindhoven (2-3 home, 0-3 away).
• BATE are in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fourth time and a second year in a row. They modernized to a knockout proviso in 2010/11 though have been catastrophic in a other dual campaigns, finishing bottom of their territory final deteriorate after holding usually 5 points from their 6 games opposite Crvena zvezda, Arsenal and Köln.
• The Borisov club’s divided record in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre is W2 D3 L4 and there have been no wins in a final 4 such fixtures. The many new brought a club’s corner heaviest divided better in Europe, a 6-0 detriment during Arsenal on matchday 6 final season.
Links and trivia
• BATE’s Aleksandr Hleb scored for Belarus opposite Hungary in a 5-2 accessible win in Debrecen on 17 Apr 2002. Vidi’s Georgi Milanov has finished further for Bulgaria opposite Belarus, opening a scoring in a 2-1 win in a Sofia accessible on 5 Mar 2014.
• Vidi conduct manager Marko Nikolić had BATE’s Mirko Ivanić on his personification staff during Vojvodina in 2013.
• Although there are 12 reigning domestic champions competing in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre – a entertain of a margin – this is one of usually dual matchday one ties between them, a other being Celtic-Rosenborg in Group B.
The coaches
• His personification career carrying been curtailed during an early age by injury, Belgrade-born Marko Nikolić began coaching during several levels with inner bar Rad and graduated to a position of conduct manager in 2008. His repute grew year on year during spells with Vojvodina, Partizan and Slovenian bar Olimpija Ljubljana, and he was re-employed by Partizan in Aug 2016, soon winning a joining and crater double. Further success followed in 2017/18 as he masterminded Vidi’s Hungarian joining delight in his entrance campaign.
• Handed a position of BATE Borisov conduct manager in Jun 2018, as a deputy for Oleg Dulub, Aleksei Baga was an inner appointment, carrying served a bar as partner manager for 7 years. A former defender, he also spent many of his personification career during BATE, winning joining titles in 2002 and 2006, a latter joined with a domestic crater victory, before finale his career – after a brief spell in Latvia – with opposition bar Dinamo Brest.