CSKA Moskva v Young Boys: play-off contribution and stats
The omens do not seem earnest as BSC Young Boys come to Russia wanting to overturn a 1-0 necessity to make it past PFC CSKA Moskva to a UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
Previous meetings
• The clubs had not met in UEFA foe before to a initial leg.
• CSKA have now won all 3 of their prior games opposite Swiss clubs. They available a 3-0 feat during FC Lausanne-Sport in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre and were afterwards 5-1 winners during home.
• Young Boys suffered their initial better in 3 home games opposite Russian clubs in a initial leg (W2 D0 L1) and mislaid both of their prior games in Russia by two-goal margins: 3-1 during FC Zenit in a 2010/11 UEFA League turn of 32 and 2-0 during FC Anji in a 2012/13 organisation stage.
Match background
• CSKA are dominant in 3 UEFA home games (W1 D2); Young Boys are but a win in 9 European divided fixtures (D2 L7).
• CSKA entered a 2017/18 UEFA Champions League debate in a third subordinate round, easing to a 3-0 total win opposite AEK Athens FC.
• CSKA have a 100% record in a final theatre of UEFA Champions League qualifying, prevalent in 2004/05, 2006/07 and 2015/16. You could also supplement 1992/93, when they kick FC Barcelona to strech a organisation theatre yet that was underneath a really opposite format.
• The Army Men competent directly for a organisation theatre in 2016/17, their tenth debate in a foe correct and fourth in a row. Pitted opposite AS Monaco FC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur FC, they bent out after 3 draws and 3 losses.
• Young Boys also started this season’s debate in a third subordinate round, knocking out FC Dynamo Kyiv pleasantness of a 90th-minute idea from 18-year-old surrogate Jordan Lotomba. That warranted a 2-0 win on a night and, carrying mislaid 3-1 in Ukraine, feat on a away-goals rule.
• Young Boys also saw off Ukrainian antithesis in final season’s third subordinate round, circumference past FC Shakhtar Donetsk on penalties; they afterwards mislaid 9-2 on total to VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach.
• This is Young Boys’ fifth UEFA Champions League debate and third play-off – they have never reached a organisation stage. Their prior play-offs came opposite Tottenham Hotspur FC (6-3 on agg) in 2010/11 and Gladbach 12 months ago. Young Boys did strech a semi-finals of a 1958/59 European Champion Clubs’ Cup, losing 3-1 over dual legs opposite Stade de Reims.
• Both Young Boys and CSKA competent for a 2017/18 foe by finishing second in their particular leagues final term.
• CSKA’s Aleksei Berezutski could make his 100th UEFA bar foe coming in this game, while YB’s Steve von Bergen is in line to make his 50th.
Team and manager links
• Georgi Milanov spent a second half of 2015/16 on loan during Swiss side Grasshopper Club.
• Alexander Gerndt and Pontus Wernbloom played together for Sweden.
Coach profiles
• Belarusian Viktor Goncharenko is a youngest ever manager to lead a group in a UEFA Champions League, environment a record 10 seasons ago aged 31. Five times a pretension leader as trainer of BATE Borisov, a bar where his personification career finished during 25, Goncharenko has spent a past 4 seasons in Russia, holding a reins during CSKA in Dec 2016.
• Adi Hütter done his name during minnows Grödig, heading them from a second tier to third in a Austrian Bundesliga in a space of dual seasons. A midfielder best compared with Austria Salzburg, he soon left Grödig for RB Salzburg, winning a joining and crater double in his usually debate there. Hütter has been during a Young Boys helm given summer 2015.
Penalty shoot-outs
• CSKA’s shoot-out record is W0 L1:
6-7 v Ferencvárosi TC, 1994/95 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup initial round
• Young Boys have won both of their chastisement shoot-outs in UEFA competition:
4-2 v FC Shakhtar Donetsk, 2016/17 UEFA Champions League third subordinate round
4-1 v FC Zimbru Chisinau, 2012/13 UEFA Europa League second subordinate round