BeÅŸiktaÅŸ v Sarpsborg facts
The UEFA Europa League organisation theatre welcomes a visitor in Sarpsborg, and a Norwegian club’s entrance deteriorate in Europe, that started in a initial subordinate round, continues during a home of foe regulars BeÅŸiktaÅŸ, who are in a European organisation theatre for a fifth deteriorate in a row.
Previous meetings
• There have been no prior matches between a dual clubs, nor between Sarpsborg and any other Turkish team.
• Beşiktaş are undefeated in 4 home fixtures conflicting opposite Norwegian clubs, winning 3 including any of a final dual but conceding. Their record in Norway is a accurate opposite, with no wins and 3 defeats in their 4 visits.
Form guide
BeÅŸiktaÅŸ
• Bidding for a hat-trick of Turkish titles, Beşiktaş could usually finish fourth in a 2017/18 Süper Lig, that warranted them a berth in a UEFA Europa League second subordinate round. They saw off B36, LASK and, in a play-offs, Partizan to strech a organisation stage, winning all 3 Istanbul encounters but conceding.
• BeÅŸiktaÅŸ are behind in a UEFA Europa League after a season’s absence, during that they reached a final 16 of a UEFA Champions League as organisation winners. They have progressed from their organisation 3 times out of 4 in a UEFA Europa League, yet a one disaster came on their many new appearance, in 2015/16. They reached a quarter-finals of a foe a following deteriorate after switching over from a UEFA Champions League in mid-campaign.
• The Istanbul club’s usually better in their final 16 European home matches (W8 D7) came in final season’s UEFA Champions League turn of 16 conflicting Bayern München (1-3). They have won their final 7 during home in a UEFA Europa League, subordinate included.
Sarpsborg
• Formed in 2008, Sarpsborg enjoyed a best deteriorate of their brief story in 2017, finishing third in a Eliteserien and reaching a final of a Norwegian Cup. The fasten position cumulative European impasse for a initial time, and they have done a many of a opportunity, surpassing all a approach from a initial subordinate turn to a organisation phase.
• After kicking off their European entrance with a 6-0 total win over Iceland’s ÃBV, they used a divided goals order to get past Switzerland’s St Gallen before overcoming Rijeka of Croatia 2-1 over dual legs and afterwards saying off Maccabi Tel-Aviv in a play-offs (3-1 home, 1-2 away).
• Sarpsborg’s 4 divided fixtures in Europe have yielded dual wins and dual defeats.
Links and trivia
• Sarpsborg are one of 4 clubs who began their successful tour to a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre in a initial subordinate round, a others being Apollon Limassol, FC København and Rangers.
• The Norwegian bar are one of 5 creation their entrance this deteriorate in a UEFA Europa League organisation stage, along with Akhisarspor, Dudelange, Jablonec and Spartak Trnava.
The coaches
• BeÅŸiktaÅŸ manager Åženol GüneÅŸ famously guided Turkey to third place during a 2002 FIFA World Cup. A goalkeeper who spent a infancy of his personification career during home-town Trabzonspor, a bar he has returned to manager on 3 occasions – winning Turkish Cups in 1995 and 2010 – he led BeÅŸiktaÅŸ to a 2015/16 Turkish pretension in his initial deteriorate and subsequently took a Black Eagles to a 2016/17 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals and final term’s UEFA Champions League turn of 16 for a initial time.
• A coaching career spent exclusively in his local Norway appearance for Geir Bakke when a Sarpsborg side he has led given Jan 2015 finished third in a 2017 Eliteserien to validate for a initial moment during European football and subsequently negotiated 4 subordinate ties to strech a UEFA Europa League organisation stage. Prior to fasten Sarpsborg he was a partner to Tor Ole Skullerud as Molde claimed their initial Norwegian fasten and crater double in 2014.