Shakhtar demeanour to supplement to Feyenoord struggles
FC Shakhtar Donetsk will be looking to build on their profitable divided win during Feyenoord when they acquire a Dutch champions to Ukraine.
• Shakhtar changed 3 points transparent in second place in Group F with a 2-1 success in Rotterdam on matchday three that left their opponents bottom of a territory though a point.
• Feyenoord will therefore be incompetent to finish in a tip dual if they do not win in Ukraine, where they have never been winning in 4 prior visits.
Match background
Shakhtar
• This is Shakhtar’s sixth diversion opposite a bar from a Netherlands – they mislaid all a initial four, scoring 3 goals and surrender ten, before winning during Feyenoord.
• Their many new contests had come opposite AZ Alkmaar in a 2004/05 UEFA Cup turn of 16, a 3-1 home defeat preceding a 2-1 retreat in a Netherlands (2-5 on aggregate).
• In a same foe in 1999/2000, Shakhtar were beaten 2-0 during Roda JC and 3-1 during home in a initial turn (1-5 aggregate).
• Shakhtar started 2017/18 with a 2-1 win during home to SSC Napoli on matchday one. The Donetsk team – who are personification their UEFA Champions League home games in Kharkiv this season, due to a domestic conditions in Ukraine – have won usually 4 of their final 13 home fixtures in a competition, organisation theatre to final.
• Márcio Azevedo, Taison and Marlos all called a OSK Metalist Stadium home before fasten Shakhtar from FC Metalist Kharkiv.
• Shakhtar are creation their seventh organisation theatre coming in 8 seasons and their 12th in total – all given 2000. They have got to a final 16 on 3 occasions: 2010/11 (when they reached a quarter-finals), 2012/13 and 2014/15.
• In 2016/17, a Ukrainian side mislaid to BSC Young Boys in a third subordinate turn (2-0 home, 0-2 away, 2-4 on penalties). They eventually done it to a UEFA Europa League turn of 32, going down to RC Celta de Vigo (1-0 away, 0-2 home aet).
• That Celta better finished Shakhtar’s five-game winning run, and a nine-match dominant streak, during home in Europe.
Feyenoord
• Feyenoord lost 3-1 during Napoli in their second fixture, creation the 3-0 feat during R. Standard de Liège in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre on 12 Dec 2014 the usually win in their final 15 European divided games (D3 L12).
• Feyenoord’s final divided feat in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, was a 1-0 delight during Newcastle United FC on 24 Sep 2002.
• The Dutch side’s divided record opposite clubs from Ukraine is W0 D2 L2. Their many new fixtures came in a 2016/17 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, where they won 1-0 during home to FC Zoryn Luhansk before a 1-1 divided pull in Odessa.
• After beating Zorya 4-3 during home in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League play-offs following a 1-1 divided draw, Feyenoord were dominant in 4 matches (W2 D2) opposite Ukrainian opposition, given a 1-0 home detriment to FC Dynamo Kyiv in Aug 2012. That final outcome had been a third better in their initial 4 games opposite teams from Ukraine, a other drawn.
• Having carried a initial Eredivisie pretension in 18 years final season, Feyenoord are in a final 32 of a UEFA Champions League for a initial time given 2002/03, when they were separated in a initial organisation stage.
• The Rotterdammers mislaid in a third subordinate turn in both 2012/13 (to Dynamo Kyiv) and 2014/15 (to Beşiktaş JK).
Coach and actor links
• Giovanni outpost Bronckhorst was in a Netherlands side that available a 3-0 accessible win opposite Ukraine during a Stadion Feijenoord on 24 May 2008.
• Andriy Pyatov and Kenneth Vermeer faced any other twice during a 2006 UEFA Under-21 Championship in Portugal. Ukraine kick Netherlands 2-1 in a organisation theatre though were degraded 3-0 in a final.