Austria Wien v AEK Athens background
Austria Wien will book a place in a UEFA Europa League knockout proviso for a initial time if they finish a contemptible method of home formula in Europe and kick AEK Athens; a Greek side will reason on to second place in Group D and swell in their hosts’ stead should they equivocate better in Vienna.
• Although a win would put Austria Wien turn on points with AEK, they would excommunicate a Athens bar from a runners-up berth on a head-to-head rule and would also finish tip of a intensity three-way head-to-head including organisation rivals Rijeka.
Previous meetings
• The teams drew 2-2 when they met for a initial time on matchday two in Athens. AEK striker Marko Livaja’s second idea of a game, in a 90th minute, denied Austria Wien feat after a visitors had come from behind to lead by Christoph Monschein and Ismael Tajouri-Shradi.
• Austria Wien’s change piece in 6 encounters with Greek clubs stands during W1 D2 L3; during home it is W1 D1 L1.
• AEK’s record in 9 games opposite Austrian sides reads W3 D2 L4 (W1 D1 L2 in Austria).
Form guide
• Austria Wien have unsuccessful to register a feat in any of their final 7 European home games (D2 L5) and have won usually once in 15 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation matches in Vienna, losing 10 of them.
• AEK have scored in usually one of their final 5 divided games in UEFA competition. However, they are now on a seven-match dominant run in Europe, their final 4 fixtures carrying all been drawn.
• Last season’s Austrian Bundesliga runners-up, Austria Wien have not survived their final 5 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns; they did, however, strech a quarter-finals of a 2004/05 competition.
• Winners of Greece’s end-of-season UEFA Champions League play-offs in 2016/17, AEK have had 5 prior UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns, many recently in 2011/12. They have usually done it into a turn of 32 once, in 2007/08.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Athens to Vienna is around 1,300km.
• AEK midfielder Arnór Ingvi Traustason is on loan from Austria Wien’s neighbours Rapid Wien, where he arrived in 2016.
• AEK’s Dmytro Chygrynskiy won a UEFA Cup as a Shakhtar Donetsk actor in 2009.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Christoph Monschein, Thomas Salamon (Austria Wien); André Simões, Marko Livaja, Hélder Lopes (AEK).
The coaches
• Austria Wien manager given 2015, Thorsten Fink won a 2001 UEFA Champions League and 4 German Bundesliga titles as a Bayern midfielder. He also cumulative back-to-back Swiss Super League championships as manager of Basel from 2009–11.
• Manolo Jiménez returned for a second spell as AEK manager in Jan 2017, carrying guided a bar to 2010/11 Greek Cup excellence during his initial stint. The ex-Spain general left-back has also coached Sevilla, Real Zaragoza and Al-Rayyan.