Atlético v København background
Having suddenly forsaken out of a UEFA Champions League, Atlético Madrid done a certain start in their office of a third UEFA Europa League title, a 4-1 quip win during FC København withdrawal them within steer of a place in a turn of 16.
• Atlético are a usually before UEFA Europa League winners active in a turn of 32, a other 4 – Porto, Chelsea, Sevilla and holders Manchester United – carrying all progressed to a knockout proviso of a UEFA Champions League.
Previous meetings
• This is usually one of dual UEFA Europa League turn of 32 ties in that a dual teams had formerly met before to final week’s initial legs, a other being Marseille-Braga.
• Jan signing Viktor Fischer scored 15 mins into his København European entrance to give a home side a lead in a initial leg. Atlético responded by seizing control of a tie with 4 unanswered goals, Saúl ÑÃguez and Kevin Gameiro giving a visitors a half-time lead before Antoine Griezmann and Vitolo cemented a win.
• The European story between a dual clubs before to this tie comprised usually a singular match, that Atlético won 2-0 in Copenhagen in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup organisation theatre interjection to a idea in possibly half from Simão and Sergio Agüero. Current København manager Ståle Solbakken was in assign of a hosts during a time, with Mexican Javier Aguirre heading Atlético to a feat that helped them by to a subsequent round.
• Atlético’s usually other games opposite Danish antithesis occurred in a 1974/75 UEFA Cup initial round, when they won 6-3 on total (2-3 away, 4-0 home) opposite Kjøbenhavns BK (KB for short) – one of a clubs that joined to form FC København in 1992.
• København are nonetheless to win in 11 European matches opposite Spanish clubs
Form guide
• UEFA Europa League victors in 2010 and 2012, Atlético are creation their initial coming in a foe in 5 years. Since afterwards Diego Simeone’s side have seemed in dual UEFA Champions League finals and reached a quarter-finals and semi-finals in dual other seasons.
• Atlético have won usually one of their 3 European matches in their new Estadio Metropolitano, losing a initial of them 2-1 to Chelsea on matchday dual of this season’s UEFA Champions League. That, however, is a Madrid club’s usually better in 14 European home games (W10 D3).
• Atlético mislaid their many new home diversion in a UEFA Europa League knockout phase, going down 2-0 in a Vicente Calderón (and subsequently 3-0 on aggregate) opposite Rubin Kazan in a 2012/13 turn of 32. They had formerly left 8 home games undefeated in a competition’s knockout rounds (W5 D3) en track to lifting a prize in 2009/10 and 2011/12.
• København competent for a turn of 32 as runners-up in Group F interjection to a higher head-to-head record over FC Sheriff, who they degraded 2-0 during home on matchday six.
• FCK have not won any of their final 5 European divided fixtures (D2 L3) or any of their final 4 in a UEFA Europa League (D2 L2). The final time they were winning on their travels in this foe was in final season’s turn of 32, when they kick Ludogorets Razgrad 2-1 in Bulgaria and on aggregate.
• Atlético finished third in a Spanish Liga final season, and this is usually a second time in 8 attempts that they have unsuccessful to swell over a organisation theatre of a UEFA Champions League. However, on a usually other occasion, in 2009/10, they went on to win a initial UEFA Europa League.
• København are in a UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League turn of 32 for a fourth time. Their usually success during this theatre of a foe came final deteriorate when, carrying separated over from a UEFA Champions League, they overcame Ludogorets, that 2-1 divided win preceding a goalless pull during Parken. They exited in a following turn after losing 3-2 on total to Ajax.
• Champions of Denmark in 2016/17, FCK were degraded on divided goals by QarabaÄŸ in this season’s UEFA Champions League play-offs, carrying separated Žilina and Vardar in a dual before subordinate rounds.
• Atlético have won all 21 UEFA foe ties in that they were winning in a divided initial leg, many recently opposite Bayer Leverkusen in final season’s UEFA Champions League turn of 16 (4-2 away, 0-0 home).
• On a 11 occasions that FCK have mislaid a initial diversion during home in a two-legged European tie, they have usually recovered a conditions twice, many famously – and many recently – in 2006/07, when they mislaid 1-2 during home to Ajax in a initial leg of a UEFA Champions League play-off before winning 2-0 in Amsterdam to strech a organisation theatre for a initial time.
UEFA Europa League patrol changes
• Atlético
In: Diego Costa, Vitolo
Out: Augusto Fernández, Luciano Vietto
• København
In: Viktor Fischer, Erik Johansson, Robert Skov
Out: Danny Amankwaa, Tom Høgli, Kasper Kusk, Martin PuÅ¡ić, Benjamin VerbiÄ
Links and trivia
• Midfielder William Kvist is a survivor, along with manager Solbakken, of a FCK side that mislaid to Atlético in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup.
• FCK’s Swedish goalkeeper Robin Olsen and Atlético’s French striker Antoine Griezmann faced any other twice in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers; Griezmann did not measure in possibly game, any finale in a 2-1 home win.
• Kvist and Griezmann are set to be in antithesis during a World Cup finals in Russia as Denmark accommodate France in Moscow on 26 June.
Penalty shoot-outs
• Atlético’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W2 L4:
6-7 v Derby, 1974/75 UEFA Cup second round
1-3 v Fiorentina, 1989/90 UEFA Cup initial round
1-3 v Villarreal, 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup final
3-2 v Leverkusen, 2014/15 UEFA Champions League turn of 16
8-7 v PSV Eindhoven, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League turn of 16
3-5 v Real Madrid, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League final
• København’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W1 L0:
3-2 v Ferencváros, 2003/04 UEFA Cup initial round
The coaches
• Diego Simeone has been a Atlético manager given Dec 2011, and has combined 5 trophies to a club’s collection, including a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League, as good as steering a Madrid bar to a UEFA Champions League finals of 2014 and 2016. The warlike ex-Argentina midfielder also had dual spells during Atlético as a player, winning a Spanish double in 1995/96.
• StÃ¥le Solbakken’s second coaching reign during København began in 2013. He has won 7 Danish titles with FCK, 5 of those carrying come in his initial spell from 2006 to 2011. The former Norway midfielder, who won 58 caps and scored 9 goals for his country, appearing during both a 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA EURO 2000, has also been in assign of Köln and Wolverhampton.