CSKA Moskva acquire Basel for pivotal encounter
PFC CSKA Moskva and FC Basel 1893 are turn on points in Group A, and their fixtures in initial Russia afterwards Switzerland are expected to have a poignant contend in a outcome of a section.
• The teams, who are assembly for a initial time, are both on 3 points with a win and a improved each, nonetheless it is CSKA who reason a chronological corner carrying won all 4 of their prior games opposite a Swiss club.
Match background
CSKA Moskva
• CSKA have won all their prior meetings with Swiss opposition, including removing a improved of BSC Young Boys in this season’s play-off turn (1-0 away, 2-0 home).
• The Moscow club’s usually other encounters opposite a Swiss side came in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, when they available dual fatiguing victories opposite Lausanne-Sport. CSKA won 3-0 in Lausanne and 5-1 behind in Moscow.
• Russian Premier League runners-up in 2016/17, a Moscow bar are in a organisation theatre for an 11th time, and a fifth true season.
• CSKA have come bottom of their organisation in their final 4 UEFA Champions League campaigns. In 2016/17, carrying competent automatically for a organisation phase, they finished behind AS Monaco FC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur FC in their section.
• CSKA won their initial 5 of their European fixtures this term, a initial 4 though surrender a goal, and triumphed 2-1 during SL Benfica on matchday one, though went down 4-1 during home to Manchester United FC final time out.Â
• CSKA were though a win in their final 5 European home games before a 1-0 second-leg success over AEK Athens FC in a third subordinate round. They beat Young Boys 2-0 in Moscow in their indirect play-off, a United improved definition their have won dual of their final 3 home fixtures.
• Their 2-0 first-leg delight during AEK finished CSKA’s run of 10 European matches though a win (D4 L6). The feat during Benfica was their initial in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given a 3-2 home win opposite PSV Eindhoven on 30 Sep 2015; subsequently their record had been D4 L6.
Basel
• This is Basel’s initial outing to Russia given a 1-0 detriment during FC Zenit in a 2012/13 UEFA Europa League turn of 16; a Swiss side still won that tie 2-1 on aggregate.
• That was Basel’s initial improved in Russia given a 3-2 detriment during SC Rotor Volgograd in a 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup organisation stage. Their record divided to Russian clubs is W1 D2 L3 – a solitary feat was a 2-0 delight in Moscow, during FC Spartak Moskva in a 2002/03 UEFA Champions League initial organisation stage.
• Bebbi’s altogether record opposite Russian teams is W5 D2 L4. They have won usually one of a final four.
• Basel were 5-0 home winners opposite SL Benfica on matchday dual – their biggest UEFA Champions League victory.
• The Benfica success finished a winless run of 9 European matches, home and divided (D3 L6), given a 2-1 home success opposite AS Saint-Étienne on 25 Feb 2016.
• Basel competent by winning an eighth unbroken Swiss pretension in 2016/17.
• This is their eighth organisation theatre campaign, and their fourth in 5 years. Last tenure they came fourth in Group A, collecting only dual points from their 6 outings.
• Basel have not won in 5 European divided matches (D1 L5) carrying won 4 of their prior five.
Coach and actor links
• As a player, Basel manager Raphaël Wicky conceded a chastisement during Switzerland’s 2-2 pull opposite Russia in UEFA EURO 2004 qualifying; Sergei Ignashevich scored from a spot, one of his dual goals in a game.
• Wicky was in a Hamburger SV organisation beaten 1-0 during CSKA in a 2006/07 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Alan Dzagoev scored twice in Russia’s 4-1 organisation theatre improved of Marek Suchý and a Czech Republic during UEFA EURO 2012.
• Suchý played for Spartak Moskva between 2010 and 2013, creation 8 appearances opposite CSKA (W2 D2 L4). He was sent off in a 2-1 improved in Apr 2012 though distinguished a 3-0 home Spartak win in his final diversion opposite CSKA, on 22 Sep 2013.
• Basel’s Geoffroy Serey Dié was captain of a Ivory Coast organisation that kick Russia 2-0 in a accessible final March. Igor Akinfeev and Aleksandr Golovin started, Viktor Vasin and Mario Fernandes were new substitutes.
• International team-mates:
Pontus Wernbloom Alexander Fransson (Sweden)
• Have played together:
Aaron Olanare and Mohamed Elyounoussi (Sarpsborg 08 FF, 2013)
• Has played in Switzerland:
Georgi Milanov (Grasshopper-Club Zürich, 2016)