APOEL v Slavia Praha: play-off contribution and stats
Cypriot and Czech champions respectively, APOEL FC and SK Slavia Praha now have their eyes on a UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
Previous meetings
• The teams have never met before in UEFA competition.
• APOEL have played dual prior knockout ties opposite Czech clubs. They mislaid to Slavia’s city rivals AC Sparta Praha in a 2004/05 UEFA Champions League second subordinate turn (2-2 home, 1-2 away), though got a improved of FK Jablonec in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League third subordinate turn (1-0 home, 3-1 away).
• The Cypriot side also played Sparta in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, losing 2-0 divided and 3-1 during home.
• Slavia have never encountered opponents from Cyprus in UEFA foe before.
Match background
• APOEL have come from a second subordinate turn to strech a play-offs, violence Luxembourg’s F91 Dudelange 1-0 both divided and home, and Romanian bar FC Viitorul 4-1 on total (0-1 away, 4-0 home after additional time).
• The Cypriot organisation are aiming to competition 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 – and 2014/15.
• APOEL mislaid in a UEFA Champions League play-offs in any of a final dual seasons, to FC Astana in 2015/16 and opposite FC København 12 months ago. Their altogether play-off record is W3 L2.
• In 2016/17, APOEL surfaced their UEFA Europa League group, subsequently violence Athletic Club 4-3 on total in a turn of 32 before losing to RSC Anderlecht 1-0 both home and divided in a final 16.
• That detriment to Anderlecht was APOEL’s solitary retreat in their final 10 European home games (W8).
• Slavia hurdled FC BATE Borisov in a third subordinate round, winning 1-0 during home and going by on divided goals after a 2-1 better in Belarus.
• This is Slavia’s initial UEFA Champions League debate given 2009/10, when they were separated in a third subordinate round.
• In 2016/17 – Slavia’s initial European debate for 7 years – the Czech bar started in a UEFA Europa League second subordinate round, creation a play-offs before crashing out 6-0 on total to Anderlecht (0-3 home, 0-3 away).
• Slavia have featured usually once in a organisation stage, in 2007/08. Their 7 other UEFA Champions League campaigns finished in a subordinate rounds.
• Their 1-0 home success over BATE in a third subordinate turn initial leg was Slavia’s initial UEFA Champions League feat given a 2-1 better of FCSB on 19 Sep 2007 – a run of 9 matches but a win (D5 L4).
• They have not won divided in Europe given a 1-0 triumphed during AFC Ajax in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate turn on 15 Aug 2007 – a method of 17 games (D8 L9).
Team and manager links
• Slavia brazen Danny faced APOEL during a 2011/12 UEFA Champions League organisation theatre while personification for FC Zenit. The Cypriot organisation won 2-1 in Nicosia before a 0-0 pull in Russia.
• Jan Sýkora strike a hat-trick for former bar FC Slovan Liberec to hit APOEL’s domestic rivals AEK Larnaca FC out of final season’s UEFA Europa League play-offs.
• Slavia’s Halil Altıntop figured as a late surrogate and scored for FC Schalke 04 in a 4-1 thrashing of APOEL in a 2008/09 UEFA Cup initial round. He played via a second leg, a 1-1 pull in Germany.
Coach profiles
• A former midfielder with Greece and Panathinaikos FC among others, Giorgos Donis is starting his second spell in assign of APOEL. He won a joining and crater double with a bar during his initial stint, in 2013/14, and afterwards took them into a following season’s UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• As a player, Jaroslav Šilhavý posted some-more appearances (465) in a Czech joining than anyone else. He done his name as a manager during Slovan Liberec, lifting a Czech pretension in 2011, being named manager of a year in 2012 and reaching a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League turn of 32. He assimilated Slavia in Sep 2016 and won a championship in his initial term.