Dynamo Kyiv v Young Boys background
Dynamo Kyiv will wish to secure a birthday feat for manager Aleksandr Khatskevich as they acquire Young Boys for a second time this deteriorate in Group B.
Previous meetings
• These teams met in this summer’s UEFA Champions League third subordinate round, Dynamo winning 3-1 during home though bowing out on divided goals after a 2-0 better in Berne.
• Dynamo’s record in 10 encounters with Swiss clubs is W5 D2 L3 (W3 D2 during home).
• Young Boys’ 4 matches opposite Ukrainian sides have constructed dual 2-0 home victories and dual divided waste by two-goal margins: 2-0 during Shakhtar in 2016 and 3-1 during Dynamo (see above).
Form guide
• Dynamo are on a four-game home winning strain in Europe – a 6-0 success followed by 3 3-1s.
• Dynamo have trailed during half-time in both of their Group B fixtures – 1-0 opposite Skënderbeu on matchday one and 2-0 during Partizan final time out – though scored 3 goals in any second half to take a points.
• Young Boys are now winless in 11 European divided games (D3 L8)
• Ukrainian Premier League runners-up in 2016/17, Dynamo reached a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals in 2010/11 and 2014/15, when they final competed in this organisation stage.
• Beaten home and divided by CSKA Moskva in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Young Boys are contesting a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fifth time, carrying done it by twice in 4 attempts.
Trivia and links
• The tour from Kyiv to Berne is around 1,700km.
• Dynamo’s Derlis González played in Switzerland with Basel (2014/15).
• Dynamo’s Josip Pivarić can make his 50th UEFA bar foe coming on matchday three.
• Dynamo manager Aleksandr Khatskevich turns 44 on a day of a game.
The coaches
• Hired as manager in Jul 2017, Aleksandr Khatskevich won 7 joining titles as a Dynamo actor from 1996–2004, and after worked with their girl and haven teams. The 38-times capped general coached his local Belarus from 2014–16.
• Austrian manager Adi Hütter has been in assign of Young Boys given Sep 2015. A midfielder who spent a bulk of his career with Salzburg, he returned to lead a bar to a domestic double in 2014/15 after managerial spells during Altach and Grödig.