Napoli conduct easterly for Shakhtar opener
FC Shakhtar Donetsk and SSC Napoli have never met though both have copiousness of UEFA Champions League extraction as they flog off Group F.
• Shakhtar have had 11 prior seasons in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre while this is Napoli’s fourth organisation campaign.
Match background
Shakhtar
• This is Shakhtar’s seventh organisation theatre debate in 8 seasons and their 12th altogether – all given 2000. They have progressed to a final 16 on 3 occasions: 2010/11 (when they reached a quarter-finals), 2012/13 and 2014/15.
• In 2016/17, a Ukrainian bar mislaid to BSC Young Boys in a third subordinate turn (2-0 home, 0-2 away, 2-4 on penalties). They eventually got to a UEFA Europa League turn of 32, losing to RC Celta de Vigo (1-0 away, 0-2 home aet).
• That Celta better finished Shakhtar’s five-game winning run, and a nine-match dominant streak, during home in Europe.
• The Donetsk organisation – who will play their UEFA Champions League home games in Kharkiv this season, due to a domestic conditions in Ukraine – have won usually 3 of their final 11 home fixtures in a competition, organisation theatre to final.
• Márcio Azevedo, Taison and Marlos all called a OSK Metalist Stadium home before fasten Shakhtar from FC Metalist Kharkiv.
• Shakhtar’s final home diversion opposite Italian antithesis was a 1-0 matchday 6 better by Juventus on 5 Dec 2012.
• Their home record opposite Serie A clubs is W3 D0 L3; altogether it is W4 D2 L12.
Napoli
• Napoli are in a organisation theatre for a second year in a row. In 2016/17, a Partenopei mislaid to contingent champions Real Madrid CF in a turn of 16, going down 3-1 away and at home.
• Twelve months ago Napoli were also in Ukraine, visiting FC Dynamo Kyiv on matchday one. Arkadiusz Milik scored both goals in a 2-1 feat in a diversion played on 13 Sep 2016 – exactly a year before this fixture.
• That was Napoli’s initial win in Ukraine, after a 3-1 detriment to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in a 2012/13 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre and a 1-0 better divided to a same opponents in a semi-final of a same foe dual years later.
• Napoli drew 0-0 during home to Dynamo in final season’s organisation stage. Their altogether record opposite Ukrainian clubs is W2 D2 L2.
• The Italian side competent for this season’s organisation theatre by violence OGC Nice 2-0 both home and away in a play-offs.
• Napoli have mislaid usually twice in 9 European divided games given a start of 2015/16 (W6 D1).
Coach and actor links
• Marko Rog related adult with Shakhtar’s Darijo Srna in a Croatia patrol during UEFA EURO 2016.
• Vlad Chiricheş was in a Romania organisation beaten 4-3 by Ukraine in a accessible on 29 May 2016. Andriy Pyatov, Bohdan Butko, Yaroslav Rakitskiy and Taras Stepanenko all featured for a winning side.
• Marek HamÅ¡ÃÂk set adult a usually idea when Slovakia won 1-0 in Ukraine on 8 Sep 2014 in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying. Pyatov, Rakitskiy and Stepanenko seemed for a hosts.
• Piotr Zieliński was in a Poland organisation beaten 1-0 by Ukraine during a OSK Metalist Stadion in Kharkiv on 11 Oct 2013. Pyatov, Rakitskiy and Stepanenko played for a opposition.
• Former Shakhtar brazen Yevhen Seleznyov scored both Dnipro goals opposite Napoli in that 2014/15 UEFA Europa League semi-final, a 2-1 total detriment for a Neapolitans.
• Zieliński and Milik helped Poland overcome Ukraine 1-0 in a organisation theatre of UEFA EURO 2016. Pyatov, Butko, Stepanenko and Viktor Kovalenko all featured for Ukraine.
• Rog was a late surrogate when Croatia edged Ukraine 1-0 in FIFA World Cup subordinate on 24 Mar 2017. Pyatov, Butko, Stepanenko, Ivan Ordets and Kovalenko were concerned for Ukraine.
• Played together:
Alan Patrick Rafael Cabral (Santos FC, 2010–11)
Match facts
Shakhtar
• Facundo Ferreyra scored twice as Shakhtar degraded Dynamo 2-0 in a Ukrainian Super Cup on 15 July.
• The Pitmen have won 6 of their 7 joining matches this term, losing a other to Dynamo.*
Napoli
• Napoli have started a deteriorate with 4 uninterrupted victories in all competitions.*
• The Partenopei are on a 16-game dominant run (W14 D2). Their final better was a 3-1 home detriment to Real Madrid CF in a UEFA Champions League turn of 16 on 7 March.*
• Milik scored in a 3-1 win during Hellas Verona FC on a opening weekend of a Serie A debate – his initial joining start given pang a knee damage final Oct – and again in Poland’s 3-0 feat over Kazakhstan in a European Qualifiers for a FIFA World Cup.
• Faouzi Ghoulam was also on aim opposite Verona. It was his initial idea for Napoli on what was his 138th coming for a club.
• Dries Mertens struck in Belgium’s 9-0 feat over Gibraltar on 31 Aug and played a entirety of a 2-1 delight in Greece 3 days later, a latter outcome confirming a Red Devils’ gift for subsequent summer’s World Cup.
• Nikola Maksimović was sent off in Serbia’s 1-0 success opposite a Republic of Ireland on 5 September.
• Luigi Sepe extended his agreement until 2022 on 31 August.
*Subject to weekend updates