APOEL rigging adult for Tottenham test
APOEL FC will need another plain opening opposite English opponents when Tottenham Hotspur FC revisit in a second turn of Group H games.
Match background
APOEL
• Beaten 3-0 divided to holders Real Madrid CF on matchday one, APOEL will be looking to continue their considerable home form as they bid to revitalise their chances.
• A 1-0 detriment to RSC Anderlecht in final season’s UEFA Europa League turn of 16 is APOEL’s solitary retreat in their final 11 European home games – 9 of that finished in victory. That Anderlecht better is a usually idea APOEL have conceded in their final 7 home games.
• APOEL’s usually prior home diversion with Premier League visitors was opposite another London club, Chelsea FC winning 1-0 in Nicosia. The game in England finished 2-2, APOEL surrogate Nenad Mirosavljević scoring an 87th-minute equaliser.
• APOEL have not won a diversion in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, given beating Olympique Lyonnais 1-0 in a turn of 16 second leg on 7 Mar 2012. Their successive record is D1 L8.
• The Cypriot bar are in a organisation theatre for a fourth time, carrying formerly competent in 2009/10, 2011/12 – when they went all a approach from second subordinate turn to quarter-finals, losing to Real Madrid – and 2014/15.
• APOEL have won by from a second subordinate turn to strech this organisation stage, violence Luxembourg’s F91 Dudelange (2-0 on aggregate) and FC Viitorul of Romania (4-1). In a play-offs they overcame SK Slavia Praha 2-0 during home before a goalless divided draw.
• Thwarted in a play-offs by FC København 12 months ago, APOEL went on to finish initial in their UEFA Europa League group, subsequently ousting Athletic Club 4-3 on total in a turn of 32 before losing to Anderlecht 1-0 both home and away in a final 16.
Tottenham
• Harry Kane scored in both games when Tottenham final played Cypriot opposition, in a figure of AEL Limassol FC in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League play-offs. Spurs won 2-1 in Larnaca, Kane removing an 80th-minute winner, before a 3-0 feat during White Hart Lane in that a striker non-stop a scoring.
• That was Tottenham’s second tie opposite a bar from Cyprus, after a 7-2 total better of Anorthosis Famagusta FC in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup initial turn (6-1 home, 1-1 away).
• Tottenham, 3-1 winners during home to Borussia Dortmund in a opening round, have mislaid their final dual European divided games. They picked adult 4 points on their travels in a 2016/17 organisation stage.
• The Lilywhites have won dual of their final 11 European divided matches (D3 L6).
• This is Tottenham’s third time in a organisation theatre and a second incursion in as many seasons – the initial time in their story they have managed uninterrupted European Cup campaigns.
• In 2010/11, their UEFA Champions League debut, Tottenham went all a approach to a quarter-finals, losing 5-0 on total to Real Madrid. Twelve months ago they came third in their organisation and changed into a UEFA Europa League, where they fell 3-2 on total to KAA Gent in a turn of 32.
Coach and actor links
• Mauricio Pochettino faced APOEL in a 1996/97 UEFA Cup initial turn while personification for RCD Espanyol, a Spanish side winning 3-2 on total (2-2 away, 1-0 home).
• Hugo Lloris was in a Lyon side knocked out by APOEL in a 2011/12 UEFA Champions League turn of 16, bowing out after a 4-3 chastisement shoot-out better in Cyprus.
• Lorenzo Ebecilio was during AFC Ajax between 2010 and 2013, personification alongside Christian Eriksen, Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld.
• Igor de Camargo played alongside Vertonghen, Alderweireld and Dembélé with Belgium.
• Vertonghen and Alderweireld were in a Belgium side that beat Cyprus 5-0 during home in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying, Giorgos Mekris and Antreas Makris appearing for a visitors. Makris, Vertonghen and Alderweireld also featured in Belgium’s 1-0 feat in Cyprus.
• Nektarios Alexandrou, George Efrem and surrogate Makris were in a Cyprus organisation beaten 3-0 by Belgium in 2018 FIFA World Cup subordinate in Sep 2016; Vertonghen and Alderweireld played for Belgium.
• Serge Aurier was an new underling as Paris Saint-Germain won 1-0 in both Cyprus and France opposite APOEL in a 2014/15 UEFA Champions League organisation stage. Carlão, George Efrem, Vinicius, Nuno Morais, Nicholas Ioannou and Stathis Aloneftis seemed for APOEL.
• Ben Davies helped Wales to a 1-0 UEFA EURO 2016 subordinate win opposite Antreas Makris’ Cyprus in Sep 2015.
• Boy Waterman transposed Michel Vorm as a surrogate for a Netherlands Under-21 side opposite England on 14 Feb 2004.
• Efrem is a product of a Arsenal academy.