Anderlecht and Celtic in need of Group B lift-off
RSC Anderlecht and Celtic FC both need to get their UEFA Champions League campaigns behind on lane as they come conduct to conduct on matchday dual – their initial assembly given 2003/04.
• Group B non-stop with a better for both teams, Anderlecht going down 3-0 in Germany to FC Bayern München and Celtic pang a record European home detriment as they were distant 5-0 by Paris Saint-Germain.
• Anderlecht split association with manager René Weiler on 18 September.
Previous meetings
• The clubs’ usually past contests came in a 2003/04 organisation stage, when any won their home diversion nonetheless conjunction side was means to progress from Group A.
• The initial compare in Belgium finished 1-0 to Anderlecht, Aruna Dindane scoring 18 mins from time for Les Mauves, who played 64 mins with 10 organisation after captain Glen De Boeck collected a second yellow label in a 26th minute. That is Anderlecht’s usually win opposite Scottish opponents from 10 attempts.
• The line-ups during a Constant Vanden Stock Stadium on 21 Oct 2003 were:
Anderlecht: ZÃtka, Deschacht, Kompany, De Boeck, Å»ewÅ‚akow, Baseggio, Kolář (Tihinen 90+1), Hasi, Wilhelmsson (Hendrikx 88), Mornar, Dindane.
Celtic: Hedman, Agathe, Baldé, Varga, McNamara (Valgaeren 46), Thompson, Lennon (Miller 80), Petrov, Larsson, Sutton, Hartson.
• Dindane was on aim again during Celtic Park, distinguished in a 77th minute, though by afterwards a hosts led 3-0 by goals from Henrik Larsson (12), Liam Miller (17) and Chris Sutton (29). That 3-1 feat valid essential as Celtic edged out Anderlecht for third place in a territory on head-to-head record after a twin finished turn on 7 points.
• Olivier Deschacht played in both games and is still in a Anderlecht squad.
Match background
Anderlecht
• Anderlecht are appearing in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre for a 12th time in total. They competent automatically after alighting a 34th Belgian pretension final term.
• The Belgian champions have mislaid usually one of their final 7 home matches in European foe (W5 D1), going down 3-2 opposite AS Saint-Étienne on matchday 6 of final season’s UEFA Europa League. However, they have won only one of their final 7 home games in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, nonetheless that 2-0 success over Galatasaray AÅž in Nov 2014, their final tie in a foe in Brussels, did finish a six-match home losing run.
• In 2016/17, Anderlecht crashed out to FC Rostov in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate round. Moving into a UEFA Europa League, they went all a approach to a final 8 – their initial European quarter-final given losing to FC Internazionale Milano in a 1996/97 UEFA Cup – eventually bowing out to Manchester United FC (1-1 home, 1-2 away aet).
• Anderlecht have not faced Scottish antithesis other than Celtic in 25 years, violence Hibernian FC on divided goals in a 1992/93 UEFA Cup initial turn (2-2 away, 1-1 home).
• Anderlecht’s altogether record opposite Scottish sides is W1 D4 L5; during home it is W1 D2 L2. The Belgian organisation mislaid their initial dual home games opposite clubs from Scotland, though drew a subsequent dual before removing their solitary win opposite Celtic in 2003.
Celtic
• The Glasgow club’s other encounters with Belgian opponents came in a 1991/92 UEFA Cup initial round, when they kick KFC Germinal Beerschot 3-1 on total (2-0 home, 1-1 away); and opposite KAA Gent in a initial turn of a 1984/85 European Cup Winners’ Cup, a tie that constructed a same total measure (0-1 away, 3-0 home).
• Celtic’s record in Belgium is therefore W0 D1 L2; they have won all 3 home matches.
• Celtic started this deteriorate in a second subordinate round, violence Linfield FC (2-0 away, 4-0 home) and afterwards Rosenborg BK in a third subordinate turn (0-0 home, 1-0 away). They posted a fifth true purify piece with a 5-0 win opposite FC Astana in a home initial leg of their play-off, advancing notwithstanding a 4-3 detriment in Kazakhstan that finished a four-game (W2 D2) dominant divided record in Europe.
• The feat during Linfield pennyless Celtic’s 11-match method though an divided win in Europe (D6 L5).
• Scottish champions for a sixth uninterrupted debate in 2016/17 – when they went by their domestic deteriorate dominant – Celtic are in a organisation theatre for a tenth time.
• The Hoops have not won any of their final 16 European organisation theatre fixtures in a UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League (D7 L9).
• In 2016/17 Celtic came fourth in their section, holding 3 points from 6 games. They suffered a record 7-0 detriment during FC Barcelona though drew 1-1 during both VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach and Manchester City FC.
• Celtic’s final feat in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, was a 2-1 home success opposite AFC Ajax on 22 Oct 2013. Their record given is D3 L7.
Coach and actor links
• Dedryck Boyata grew adult in Brussels and was during FC Brussels from a age of 13 to 16 before fasten Manchester City in 2006.
• Matz Sels, Leander Dendoncker and Boyata are general team-mates with Belgium.
• Andy Najar’s Honduras warranted a 1-1 FIFA World Cup subordinate pull opposite a Costa Rica side including Cristian Gamboa on 28 Mar 2017.