Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir v Sevilla: play-off contribution and stats
A UEFA Champions League visitor and an gifted European supporter will go conduct to conduct for a place in a organisation theatre when İstanbul Başakşehir take on Sevilla FC.
Previous meetings
• The play-off initial leg will be Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir’s initial assembly with a Spanish bar in UEFA competition.
• One organisation or other has scored 3 goals in any of Sevilla’s 3 meetings with Turkish clubs in UEFA competition. The Spanish side were 3-0 home winners opposite BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK during a Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in a organisation theatre of their winning UEFA Cup debate in 2005/06.
• Less happily for Sevilla, their UEFA Champions League debate was finished by Fenerbahçe SK in 2007/08. Beaten 3-2 in Istanbul in a initial leg of their turn of 16 tie, Sevilla won by a same scoreline in Spain usually to remove a indirect chastisement shoot-out – also 3-2.
Match background
• The Turkish organisation got to this theatre by violence Club Brugge KV 5-3 on total in a third subordinate turn (3-3 away, 2-0 home).
• The home feat opposite Club Brugge was Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir’s initial European win, during a eighth try (D3 L4).
• İstanbul Başakşehir competent for a UEFA Champions League by finishing second in a 2016/17 Turkish Super League.
• This is usually Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir’s third European campaign, and their initial in a UEFA Champions League. In 2015/16 they mislaid their opening tie, in a UEFA Europa League second subordinate round, 4-1 on total to AZ Alkmaar.
• In 2016/17, Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir separated Croatia’s HNK Rijeka on divided goals in a UEFA Europa League second subordinate turn (0-0 home, 2-2 away) before succumbing to FC Shakhar Donetsk (1-2 home, 0-2 away).
• The Grey Owls’ home record in Europe is W1 D1 L2.
• The Spanish side are aiming to competition a organisation theatre for a third deteriorate in a row.
• In 2016/17, Sevilla modernized to a UEFA Champions League turn of 16 – the initial time they had got past a organisation theatre given 2009/10 – going down 3-2 on total to Leicester City FC.
• Sevilla competent by entrance fourth in a 2016/17 Spanish Liga.
Team and manager links
• Istanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir’s Emmanuel Adebayor and Gaël Clichy played in a 3-0 success for Arsenal FC opposite Sevilla in a 2007/08 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Adebayor played on loan for Real Madrid CF in a second half of a 2010/11 campaign, scoring opposite Sevilla (2-0) in a lapse leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final.
• Sevilla’s Simon Kjær spent a 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons with Fenerbahçe, confronting a Grey Owls 3 times in a joining (W2 L1). He also played in a Turkish Cup semi-final final tenure that finished 4-4 on aggregate, Istanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir going by 10-9 on penalties.
• İstanbul Başakşehir midfielder Emre Belözoğlu was with Club Atlético de Madrid in a initial half of a 2012/13 campaign, creation 7 Liga appearances.
Coach profiles
• Abdullah Avcı guided Turkey to a UEFA European Under-17 Championship pretension in 2005 and a semi-finals of a FIFA U-17 World Cup after that year. He took assign of İstanbul Başakşehir in 2006 and, on a behind of several plain seasons, succeeded Guus Hiddink as comparison Turkey manager in Nov 2011. Avcı quiescent 21 months later, returning to İstanbul Başakşehir in summer 2014.
• Eduardo Berizzo played in Spain, France and Argentina as a defender, with Marcelo Bielsa, his initial manager during CA Newell’s Old Boys, carrying a surpassing change on him. After aiding Bielsa with a Chilean inhabitant organisation he followed his possess coaching career and landed a pursuit during former employers RC Celta de Vigo, holding a Galicians to a semi-finals of a UEFA Europa League for a initial time in 2016/17.