BATE v Crvena zvezda background
A potentially wilful UEFA Europa League Group H tie pits third-placed BATE Borisov during home to a organisation immediately above them, Crvena zvezda, who have nonetheless to concur in their initial dual divided fixtures.
• The Serbian side will be by to a turn of 32 with a feat if Köln concurrently destroy to win during home to competent Arsenal in a other organisation encounter. Defeat means rejecting for BATE.
Previous meetings
• The initial rival compare between a teams, in Belgrade on matchday one, finished in a 1-1 draw, Nemanja Radonjić’s opener for Crvena zvezda cancelled out by Nikolai Signevich.
• Crvena zvezda’s usually confront with a Belarusian bar before to that was a high-scoring affair; they got a improved of Naftan Novopolotsk in a 2012/13 UEFA Europa League second subordinate turn after a 4-3 win in Belarus and a 3-3 pull during home.
• BATE’s usually other tie opposite Serbian antithesis constructed an away-goals feat opposite Crvena zvezda’s almighty rivals Partizan in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League play-offs: they won 1-0 during home and mislaid 2-1 in Belgrade.
Form guide
• BATE conceded 5 goals for a initial time in 28 UEFA Europa League matches, subordinate included, when they went down 5-2 to Köln on matchday four.
• Crvena zvezda have won twice on a highway in this European campaign, posting 1-0 wins during Sparta Praha in a third subordinate turn and during Köln on matchday two. Their other 4 European divided fixtures this tenure have yielded 3 draws and one better (3-2 during Krasnodar in a play-offs).
• 2016 Belarusian champions BATE competent for a organisation theatre by overcoming Olexandriya in a play-offs, carrying mislaid to Slavia Praha on divided goals in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate round.
• Second in Serbia final term, Crvena zvezda – who were UEFA Cup runners-up in 1978/79 – final reached a organisation theatre in 2007/08, when they mislaid all 4 matches.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Belgrade to Borisov is around 1,200km.
• BATE’s Montenegrin general Mirko Ivanić played in Serbia with Vojvodina (2012–16), where Crvena zvezda’s Nemanja Supić (2012–13) and Srdjan Babić (2014–15) were among his team-mates.
• BATE’s Stanislav Dragun and Crvena zvezda’s Milan Rodić played together during Russian side Krylya Sovetov Samara in autumn 2015.
• BATE possess dual Serbian players in their ranks – brazen Anes Rušević and centre-back Nemanja Milunović.
• BATE are now a outsiders to overcome in a three-way scuffle with Shakhtyor Soligorsk and Dinamo Minsk for a 2017 Belarusian title. Should they skip out, it will be a initial time in 12 years that a championship climax has eluded them.
• Crvena zvezda are one of 3 teams to have done it all a approach from a initial subordinate turn to a organisation theatre this season, along with Skënderbeu and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
• Crvena zvezda’s Richmond Boakye was a joint-top scorer in UEFA Europa League subordinate this deteriorate with 7 goals – turn with Trakai’s Maksim Maksimov.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Stanislav Dragun, Nemanja Melunović, Nikolai Signevich (BATE); Guelor Kanga, Srdjan Babić (Crvena zvezda).
The coaches
• Aleksandr Yermakovich has been on a staff during BATE given fasten as a midfielder in 1998. He won Belarusian titles as both actor and partner manager to Viktor Goncharenko – given supplemented by 4 championships after he took solitary authority in 2013.
• Vladan Milojević returned to Crvena zvezda in Jun 2017, carrying played for a bar in 1996. He spent most of his personification career in Greece with Panathinaikos and Iraklis, and headed behind there as manager of Panionios in 2016–17.