Crvena zvezda v BATE background
Crvena zvezda are building adult steam during home in Europe as they acquire BATE Borisov in their opening UEFA Europa League Group H game.
Previous meetings
• The sides are assembly for a initial time in UEFA competition.
• Crvena zvezda’s usually prior confront with a Belarusian bar was a high-scoring affair; they got a improved of Naftan Novopolotsk in a 2012/13 UEFA Europa League second subordinate turn after a 4-3 win in Belarus and a 3-3 pull during home.
• BATE’s usually past tie opposite Serbian antithesis constructed an away-goals feat over Crvena zvezda’s almighty rivals Partizan in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League play-offs: they won 1-0 during home and mislaid 2-1 in Belgrade.
Form guide
• Crvena zvezda are on a four-game home winning strain in UEFA competition.
• BATE have won dual of their 3 European divided fixtures this season, though are but a win in 8 UEFA organisation theatre divided games (D1 L7) ever given a 3-1 success during LOSC Lille in their 2012/13 UEFA Champions League opener.
• Second in Serbia final term, and losing UEFA Cup finalists in 1978/79, Crvena zvezda final reached this organisation theatre in 2007/08.
• Belarusian champions BATE are behind in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a initial time given 2010/11, when they modernized to a turn of 32.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Borisov to Belgrade is around 1,200km.
• Crvena zvezda are one of 3 teams to have done it all a approach from a initial subordinate turn to a organisation theatre this season, along with Skënderbeu and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
• This diversion is holding place a day after Crvena zvezda defender Marko Gobeljić’s 25th birthday, with BATE’s Mirko Ivanić branch 24 on a same day.
• Montenegrin general Ivanić played in Serbia with Vojvodina (2012–16), where Crvena zvezda’s Srdjan Babić (2014–15) and Nemanja Supić (2012–13) were among his team-mates.
• BATE’s Stanislav Dragun and Crvena zvezda’s Milan Rodić played together during Russian outfit Krylya Sovetov Samara in autumn 2015.
• If selected, BATE’s Serbian brazen Anes RuÅ¡ević and centre-back Nemanja Milunović will be returning to their home nation for a match.
• Crvena zvezda’s Richmond Boakye was a joint-top scorer in UEFA Europa League subordinate this deteriorate with 7 goals – level with Trakai’s Maksim Maksimov.
The coaches
• Vladan Milojević returned to Crvena zvezda in Jun 2017, carrying played for a bar in 1996. He spent most of his personification career in Greece with Panathinaikos and Iraklis, and headed behind there as manager of Panionios from 2016–17.
• Aleksandr Yermakovich has been on a staff during BATE given fasten as a midfielder in 1998. He won Belarusian titles as both actor and partner manager to Viktor Goncharenko – since supplemented by 4 championships after he took solitary authority in 2013.