Sevilla in hunt of Spartak Moskva turnaround
FC Spartak Moskva got their initial UEFA Champions League win of a deteriorate in substantial style, though Sevilla FC will not be brief of inducement to spin a tables in a retreat tie in Spain.
• Matchday 3 was a sides’ initial assembly and it could frequency have left improved for Spartak, whose 5-1 victory was their record winning margin, home or away, in a UEFA Champions League.
• That outcome has left a Russian champions turn with Liverpool FC on 5 points during a tip of Group E, nonetheless Sevilla are usually a indicate behind and would go above their opponents with feat during a Estádio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán.
Match background
Sevilla
• Before their complicated improved during Spartak, Sevilla had mislaid usually one of their prior 8 games (W4 D3) opposite Russian clubs, 2-1 during home to PFC CSKA Moskva in a 2009/10 turn of 16 second leg (2-3 aggregate).
• That is a Spanish side’s unique improved in 5 home matches opposite Russian visitors; Sevilla won a other four.
• Their many new Russian assignment came in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, when they kick FC Zenit 4-3 on total (2-1 home, 2-2 away) en track to lifting a trophy.
• A Wissam Ben Yedder hat-trick cumulative a 3-0 win during home to NK Maribor on matchday two. Sevilla have mislaid dual of their final 8 European home fixtures, winning 5 and sketch a other.
• Last term, Sevilla done it to a turn of 16 for a initial time given 2009/10 – though they have never left serve in a UEFA Champions League era. This is their fifth organisation theatre debate and their third in a row.
• Sevilla competent by finishing fourth in a 2016/17 Spanish Liga. They kick Turkey’s Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir in August’s play-offs, winning a divided initial leg 2-1 before a 2-2 pull in southern Spain.
Spartak Moskva
• The matchday 3 win finished Spartak’s three-game losing strain opposite Spanish clubs, including away (2-3) and home (0-3) defeats by FC Barcelona in a 2012/13 organisation stage.
• Spartak were but a win in their prior 6 fixtures opposite Liga teams, home and divided (D2 L4); matchday 3 was their initial success given a 1-0 feat during RCD Mallorca in a 2003/04 UEFA Cup third turn second leg (1-3 aggregate). They have now won dual of their final 11 matches with Spanish sides (D2 L7), that Mallorca feat a solitary time they have avoided improved on their final 7 visits to Spain.
• The Russian club’s record divided to Spanish clubs is W4 D0 L9.
• The Sevilla scalp halted Spartak’s nine-game run but a win in European fixtures, home and away, given a 2-1 feat over SL Benfica on 23 Oct 2012. Their record given afterwards was D3 L5.
• This is Spartak’s 12th organisation theatre campaign, and a initial given 2012/13 when they came fourth in a territory also including Barcelona, Benfica and Celtic FC. They have not graced a final 16 given 2000/01, when they reached a second organisation stage.
• The Moscow bar competent automatically for a organisation theatre by lifting their 22nd joining pretension in 2016/17. Last term, their European debate finished during a initial hurdle, with defeat by AEK Larnaca FC in a UEFA Europa League third subordinate round.
• Furthermore, Spartak have not won divided given a 1-0 success during AFC Ajax in their 2010/11 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 initial leg. Their record given is D4 L4.
Coach and actor links
• Sevilla manager Eduardo Berizzo got a improved of Russian antithesis with RC Celta de Vigo in final season’s UEFA Europa League turn of 16, violence FC Krasnodar 2-1 during home and 2-0 away.
• Nicolás Pareja played for Spartak between 2010 and 2013, creation 47 joining appearances and scoring 3 times.
• Luis Muriel and JoaquÃn Correa were team-mates with Fernando during UC Sampdoria in 2015/16.
• Mario Pašalić spent 2014/15 during Elche CF, personification 64 mins of a 3-0 improved during Sevilla on 15 Mar 2015.
• Nolito and Lorenzo Melgarejo were Benfica team-mates in 2012/13.