Lazio v Apollon facts
Quarter-finalists final season, Lazio embark on their seventh UEFA Europa League organisation debate with a home diversion opposite an Apollon Limassol side that came by 4 subordinate ties to take their place during this connection of a foe for a fourth time in 6 years.
Previous meetings
• The clubs’ usually prior encounters came when they were interconnected together in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, a 0-0 pull in Cyprus preceding a 2-1 win for Lazio in Rome dual weeks later. Fotis Papoulis (a scorer in a Stadio Olimpico), Bruno Vale, Georgios Vasiliou and Marios Stylianou played in both games for Apollon, given Åžtefan Radu is a solitary Lazio survivor.
• Lazio won both of their other dual games opposite Cypriot opposition, defeating Omonia home and divided in a 1995/96 UEFA Cup initial round, given Apollon are still seeking their initial win opposite an Italian bar carrying mislaid all 3 divided games and drawn all 3 during home. Indeed, no Cypriot side has beaten an Italian foe in 24 UEFA bar foe matches, a 12 games in Italy all won by a home team.
Form guide
Lazio
• Edged out of fourth place and into fifth in final season’s Serie A by Internazionale on a final day, Lazio are behind for a seventh ventures into a UEFA Europa League, their best performances carrying been in 2012/13 and 2017/18, when they reached a quarter-finals.
• The Rome side have played some-more games in a foe than any other Italian club, this being their 57th – and 37th in a organisation stage. Their final 5 organisation theatre participations have all been successful – after failures in a initial dual – and they have surfaced their territory on 3 of those occasions. However, they have usually won once during home on matchday one in 4 attempts – 1-0 opposite Legia Waszawa in 2013/14.
• Runners-up to Inter in a 1997/98 UEFA Cup, Lazio were undefeated during home in Europe final deteriorate (W4 D2) and have won 9 of their final 13 continental fixtures in Rome (D2 L1).
Apollon
• Domestic runners-up in joining and crater final season, Apollon’s sixth unbroken deteriorate in a UEFA Europa League kicked off in a initial subordinate round, where they got a improved of Lithuania’s Stumbras before ousting ŽeljezniÄar of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dinamo Brest of Belarus and, on divided goals in a play-offs, Basel.
• Apollon have been in 3 prior UEFA Europa League organisation campaigns – a fourth is a record for a Cypriot bar – though have never progressed over this stage, finishing third in their territory in 2013/14 and fourth in both 2014/15 and 2017/18. Their record in a organisation theatre is W2 D4 L12.
• The Limassol bar have won usually one of their final 6 European divided fixtures, losing a other five, nonetheless they did pull their initial divided tie of final season’s organisation theatre during English Premier League side Everton (2-2).
Links and trivia
• Apollon are one of 4 clubs who have reached this season’s organisation theatre after starting their debate in a initial subordinate round; a others are FC København, Rangers and Sarpsborg.
• Lazio are one of 10 clubs in a 2018/19 organisation theatre who have mislaid UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League finals, a others being Anderlecht, Vidi, Salzburg, Bordeaux, Arsenal, Celtic, Sporting CP, Rangers and, on 3 occasions, Marseille. Of that organisation usually Anderlecht have carried a trophy.
The coaches
• Lazio trainer given Apr 2016, when he transposed Stefano Pioli, Simone Inzaghi represented a bar as a brazen between 1999 and 2010, winning a Italian double in his entrance deteriorate and a Coppa Italia twice some-more in after years. 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. His initial prize as manager was a 2017 Italian Super Cup.
• Sofronis Avgousti has coached home-town organisation Apollon given Dec 2016, when, as caretaker, he led a bar to feat in any of his initial 8 joining matches and to a successful counterclaim of a Cypriot Cup. He has given directed them into back-to-back UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns. Capped 11 times by Cyprus, he formerly served a Limassol bar in 3 apart spells as a goalkeeper and was also on a books of AEK Larnaca, Aris Limassol and APOEL.