Basel try to finish CSKA Moskva double
Having won 2-0 during PFC CSKA Moskva on matchday three, FC Basel 1893 are good placed to swell from Group A as a teams accommodate in Switzerland for a initial time.
• Basel are second in Group A on 6 points, 3 behind leaders Manchester United FC; they will validate for a final 16 with a win if United equivocate improved during home to bottom side SL Benfica.
• CSKA, who have mislaid a final dual after their matchday one victory, have 3 points and will be incompetent to finish in a tip dual if they remove and United win or draw.
Match background
Basel
• Beaten 3-0 during Manchester United FC on matchday one, Raphaël Wicky’s organisation were though a feat in 9 European matches, home or divided (D3 L6), given a 2-1 home success over AS Saint-Étienne on 25 Feb 2016, before thrashing SL Benfica 5-0 on matchday two – their record UEFA Champions League win.
• Basel were separated from Europe final tenure following a 4-1 home detriment to Arsenal FC on 6 Dec 2016 – usually their fifth improved in 23 European home games given a start of 2013/14.
• Basel had mislaid their dual prior European home matches, and collected a singular indicate from their 3 games during St. Jakob-Park in final season’s organisation stage. The Benfica win was usually a Bebbi’s second in their final 8 European home fixtures, with 3 waste in that sequence.
• Basel’s final home diversion opposite Russian antithesis was a 2-0 delight over FC Zenit in a 2012/13 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 initial leg; a Swiss side went by notwithstanding a 1-0 divided loss.
• The Bebbi’s altogether record opposite Russian teams is W6 D2 L4. The matchday 3 feat means they have won dual of a final five.
• Basel have won 4 of their 5 home matches opposite Russian clubs; a difference was a 3-2 improved by FC Spartak Moskva in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League turn of 32 initial leg (3-4 aggregate).
• Basel competent by winning an eighth unbroken Swiss pretension in 2016/17.
• This is their eighth organisation theatre campaign, and their fourth in 5 years. Last tenure they came fourth in Group A, collecting usually dual points from their 6 outings.
CSKA Moskva
• Until matchday three, CSKA had won all their prior meetings with Swiss opposition, including removing a improved of BSC Young Boys in this season’s play-offs (1-0 away, 2-0 home).
• The Moscow club’s usually other encounters with a Swiss side came in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, when they available dual fatiguing victories opposite Lausanne-Sport. CSKA won 3-0 in Lausanne and 5-1 behind in Moscow.
• Russian Premier League runners-up in 2016/17, CSKA are in a organisation theatre for an 11th time, and a fifth true season.
• CSKA have come bottom of their organisation in their final 4 UEFA Champions League campaigns. In 2016/17, carrying competent automatically for a organisation phase, they finished behind AS Monaco FC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur FC in their section.
• CSKA won their initial 5 European fixtures this term, a initial 4 though surrender a goal, including triumphing 2-1 during SL Benfica on matchday one; however, they went down 4-1 during home to Manchester United FC on matchday two, their heaviest home improved in European competition.Â
• Their 2-0 first-leg feat during AEK Athens FC in a third subordinate turn finished CSKA’s run of 10 European matches though a win (D4 L6). They had also mislaid 6 of their prior 7 European divided games, sketch a other.
• The feat during Benfica was their initial in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given a 3-2 home win opposite PSV Eindhoven on 30 Sep 2015; subsequently their record had been D4 L6. It was also their initial divided win in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given a 2-1 success during Manchester City FC on 5 Nov 2014. Their divided record given had been D1 L6.
Coach and actor links
• As a player, Basel manager Raphaël Wicky conceded a chastisement during Switzerland’s 2-2 pull with Russia in UEFA EURO 2004 qualifying; Sergei Ignashevich scored from a spot, one of his dual goals in a game.
• Wicky was in a Hamburger SV organisation beaten 1-0 during CSKA in a 2006/07 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Alan Dzagoev struck twice in Russia’s 4-1 organisation theatre improved of Marek Suchý and a Czech Republic during UEFA EURO 2012.
• Suchý played for Spartak Moskva between 2010 and 2013, creation 8 appearances opposite CSKA (W2 D2 L4). He was sent off in a 2-1 retreat in Apr 2012 though distinguished a 3-0 Spartak home win in his final diversion opposite CSKA, on 22 Sep 2013.
• Basel’s Geoffroy Serey Dié was captain of a Ivory Coast side that kick Russia 2-0 in a accessible final March. Igor Akinfeev and Aleksandr Golovin started, Viktor Vasin and Mario Fernandes were new substitutes.
• International team-mates:
Pontus Wernbloom Alexander Fransson (Sweden)
• Have played together:
Aaron Olanare and Mohamed Elyounoussi (Sarpsborg 08 FF, 2013)
• Has played in Switzerland:
Georgi Milanov (Grasshopper-Club Zürich, 2016)