Austria Wien v Milan background
Austria Wien have a right to be endangered in their UEFA Europa League Group D opener as they acquire an AC Milan side out to finish their set of vital UEFA bar trophies.
Previous meetings
• The clubs are assembly for a initial time in UEFA competition.
• Austria have won usually once in 12 encounters with Serie A antithesis (W1 D5 L6 – W1 D2 L3 during home), that sole success a wilful 2-1 feat opposite Internazionale in a UEFA Cup third turn in Nov 1983.
• Milan have mislaid usually one of their 9 matches with Austrian opponents (W6 D2 L1 – W2 D1 L1 in Austria) – a 5-2 European Cup better during Rapid Wien in Oct 1957.
Form guide
• Austria are but a win in 5 European home games (D2 L3), and have not scored in both of their UEFA home fixtures this deteriorate – opposite AEL and Osijek in subordinate for this competition.
• Milan have won all 4 of their 2017/18 UEFA matches but conceding, scoring 10 goals in a routine – at an normal of 2.5 per diversion – opposite U Craiova and Shkëndija.
• Last season’s Austrian Bundesliga runners-up, Austria Wien have not survived their final 5 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns given creation it to a quarter-finals of a 2004/05 competition.
• Sixth in Italy final term, Milan are creation their initial coming in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre given they reached a turn of 32 in a last-ever UEFA Cup in 2008/09.
• This is a usually vital UEFA foe a Rossoneri have not won. Only Ajax, Bayern München, Chelsea, Juventus and – as of final May – Manchester United have won a European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League and European Cup Winners’ Cup.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Milan to Vienna is a small over 600km.
• Austria Wien’s Heiko Westermann and Milan’s Hakan ÇalhanoÄŸlu were team-mates during Hamburg in 2013/14.
• Milan’s Nikola Kalinić was a losing UEFA Europa League finalist with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in 2015, his side going down 3-2 to Sevilla in Warsaw.
The coaches
• Austria Wien manager given 2015, Thorsten Fink won a 2001 UEFA Champions League and several Bundesliga titles as a Bayern midfielder, and cumulative back-to-back Swiss championships as manager of Basel from 2009–11.
• In assign given Jun 2016, Vincenzo Montella has led Milan behind into Europe for a initial time given 2013/14. A Serie A leader as a striker with Roma in 2000/01, he has given coached Fiorentina and Sampdoria.