FCSB v Sporting CP: play-off contribution and stats
After a 0-0 pull in a initial leg, story would advise this UEFA Champions League play-off decider is a finished deal: FCSB have nonetheless to remove during home opposite Portuguese opponents and Sporting CP have mislaid all 3 of their prior games in Romania.Â
Previous meetings
• The initial was a clubs’ initial assembly in UEFA competition.
• FCSB have won usually one of their prior 7 games opposite clubs from Portugal, violence Rio Ave 2-1 in Bucharest in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League organisation stage. However, they are also dominant in 3 home games opposite Liga sides (W1 D2).
• Sporting have mislaid all 3 of their prior divided games in Romania though scoring: 2-0 during FC Timişoara in 1990, 2-0 during FC Dinamo 1948 in 1991 and, many recently, 1-0 during FC Vaslui in 2011.
Match background
• FCSB are dominant in 4 UEFA home games (W1 D3), though have not kept a purify piece during that run – a regard given that a scoring pull opposite Sporting CP would spell elimination.
• Sporting have mislaid their final 4 European divided games.
• The Romanian bar reached a play-offs with a 6-3 total win opposite FC Viktoria Plzeň of a Czech Republic, following adult a 2-2 home pull with a 4-1 divided win.
• FCSB are attempting to strech a organisation theatre for a eighth time, and a initial given 2013/14.
• The Bucharest side’s record in a UEFA Champions League play-offs is W1 L2. They kick Legia Warszawa on divided goals in 2013/14 though mislaid to PFC Ludogorets Razgrad on penalties a following year and went down 6-0 on total to Manchester City FC in 2016/17.
• In 2016/17, FCSB went on to finish fourth in their UEFA Europa League group.
• FCSB competent for a UEFA Champions League after finishing second in final season’s Romanian tip flight.
• Sporting are aiming to strech a organisation theatre for a third time in 4 years.
• The Lisbon side have mislaid both their prior UEFA Champions League play-offs – opposite ACF Fiorentina in 2009/10 and PFC CSKA Moskva in 2015/16.
• In 2016/17, Sporting finished fourth in their organisation behind Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid CF and Legia Warszawa.
• Sporting competent by entrance third in a Portuguese Liga in 2016/17.
Team and manager links
• Romanian László Bölöni, a member of FC Steaua BucureÈ™ti’s 1986 European Cup-winning side, coached Sporting to their many new joining pretension success, in 2001/02. The Lions also landed a Portuguese Cup and domestic Super Cup during his two-season tenure.
• FCSB exaggerate Portuguese talent in a form of Paris-born Filipe Teixeira.
• Júnior Morais spent a deteriorate and a half with Portuguese lower-league outfit SC Freamunde before relocating to Romania in Jan 2011.
Coach profiles
• Appointed in June, carrying guided SCM Pitești to graduation to a Romanian second tier in a 2016/17 season, former aggressive midfielder Nicolae Dică won joining titles as a actor with Steaua and CFR 1907 Cluj. The 37-year-old represented Romania on 32 occasions, scoring 9 goals, featuring in all 3 of their matches during UEFA EURO 2008. He was voted Romanian actor of a year in 2006.
• A losing UEFA Europa League finalist with SL Benfica in 2013 and 2014, Jorge Jesus suddenly left a Eagles for extreme internal rivals Sporting in summer 2015. The 63-year-old had started his personification career during Sporting – where his father Virgolino had also been a actor – and had coached Benfica given 2009.
Penalty shoot-outs
• FCSB’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W4 L1:
5-6 v PFC Ludogorets 1945, 2014/15 UEFA Champions League play-offs
4-2 v AFC Ajax, 2012/13 UEFA Europa League turn of 32
4-3 v Grasshopper Club Zürich, 2010/11 UEFA Europa League play-offs
4-3 v Valencia CF, 2004/05 UEFA Cup turn of 32
2-0 v FC Barcelona, 1985/86 European Champion Clubs’ Cup final
• Sporting have mislaid both of their prior UEFA chastisement shoot-outs:
3-5 v FC Dinamo Minsk, 1984/85 UEFA Cup second round
3-4 v SSC Napoli, 1989/90 UEFA Cup initial round