BeÅŸiktaÅŸ aim to keep movement going opposite Monaco
BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK are within steer of a place in a UEFA Champions League knockout rounds for a initial time, withdrawal AS Monaco FC struggling to keep gait in a foe for a top-two finish in Group G.
• The Turkish organisation done it 9 points from 9 in a territory by coming from behind to win 2-1 in France on matchday three, and another feat would take Beşiktaş into a final 16 for a initial time. Even a pull would be enough, providing RB Leipzig win during FC Porto in a other matchday 4 fixture.
• BeÅŸiktaÅŸ are 5 points transparent during a tip of a list after winning during Porto on a opening night (3-1) and afterwards overcoming Leipzig 2-0 in Istanbul before to a matchday 3 success during a Stade Louis II. Leonardo Jardim’s Monaco have a singular indicate to their name and have mislaid a final two, beaten 3-0 during home by Porto on matchday dual carrying non-stop with a 1-1 pull during debutants Leipzig.
• Matchday 3 was a initial assembly for these clubs, though any played opponents from a other’s nation in 2016/17.
Match background
BeÅŸiktaÅŸ
• BeÅŸiktaÅŸ are dominant during home to French antithesis (W3 D1) and have won a final 3 encounters. The many new was opposite Olympique Lyonnais – whose organisation included Rachid Ghezzal, now with Monaco – who won last season’s UEFA Europa League quarter-final 7-6 on penalties after a 2-1 first-leg home win for a French club was matched by their opponents in a second diversion in Istanbul.
• The Black Eagles have never kept a purify piece during home to French visitors.
• The Turkish side have won their final 4 European home fixtures, beating Leipzig 2-0 on matchday two, and are dominant in their final 10 matches in Istanbul (W5 D5) given a 3-1 detriment to Club Brugge KV in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League turn of 16. That is a solitary retreat in their final 18 European home games (W10 D7).
• BeÅŸiktaÅŸ drew all 3 home games in final season’s organisation stage, and had drawn 4 unbroken home fixtures in a UEFA Champions League, subordinate included, before violence Leipzig. That and a 3-1 third subordinate turn win opposite Feyenoord in Aug 2014 are their usually home victories in their final 9 matches in this foe (D4 L3), again including qualifying – although they are dominant in their final 6 such fixtures in Istanbul.
• In 2016/17 Beşiktaş finished third in their organisation and changed into a UEFA Europa League, where they got as distant as a quarter-finals before losing on penalties to Lyon.
• Before matchday three, all though one of BeÅŸiktaÅŸ’s 8 games opposite Ligue 1 sides had finished in a home win. The solitary difference was a 2-2 home pull with AJ Auxerre in a 1994/95 UEFA European Cup Winners’ Cup second turn initial leg (2-4 on aggregate).
Monaco
• The French bar faced Fenerbahçe SK in final season’s third subordinate round, losing 2-1 in Turkey though winning 3-1 during home to start their noted run to a semi-finals. Radamel Falcao scored in both legs.
• That left Monaco with a record W1 D1 L2 divided to Turkish teams. Defeated on their final dual trips, ASM’s solitary win was a 2-0 success at Galatasaray AÅž in a 1993/94 organisation stage.Â
• Jardim’s men – who claimed a French pretension in May – mislaid 4 of their 8 divided games in final season’s competition, winning 3 and sketch a other.
• Monaco are in their eighth organisation theatre campaign. Finalists in 2004, they got to a semis in 1994, 1998 and 2017.
• The realm outfit had another noted European deteriorate in 2016/17, knocking out Manchester City FC and Borussia Dortmund en track to a final four. There they succumbed 4-1 on total to Juventus (0-2 home, 1-2 away).
• Monaco have competent from a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre on their final 4 participations.
Coach and actor links
• Jardim was in assign of SC Braga for their 2011/12 UEFA Europa League turn of 32 rejecting during a hands of Beşiktaş (0-2 home, 1-0 away).
• Talisca scored a usually idea of SL Benfica’s UEFA Champions League organisation theatre win opposite Monaco in 2014/15.
• Ãlvaro Negredo scored Valencia CF’s idea in a 2-1 better during Monaco in a 2015/16 play-offs, completing a 4-3 total win for a Spanish side.
• Arda Turan hit Turkey’s last-minute winner past Switzerland goalkeeper Diego Benaglio in a UEFA EURO 2008 organisation stage.
• Falcao struck away (3-1) and home (1-1) opposite BeÅŸiktaÅŸ in Porto’s winning 2010/11 UEFA Europa League campaign, João Moutinho also personification both games. Falcao was also on aim in Club Atlético de Madrid’s 3-0 win during BeÅŸiktaÅŸ in a 2011/12 turn of 16 second leg, his side once again going on to lift a trophy.
• International team-mates:
João Moutinho Pepe, Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal)
Diego Benaglio Gökhan Inler (Switzerland)
Danijel Subašić Matej Mitrović (Croatia)
Terence Kongolo Jeremain Lens (Netherlands)
• Have played together:
Stevan Jovetić Gary Medel (Internazionale Milano, 2015/16)
Fabinho Pepe (Real Madrid CF, 2012/13)
Ãlvaro Negredo Rony Lopes (Manchester City FC, 2013/14)
• Has played in France:
Duško Tošić (FC Sochaux-Montbéliard, 2006/07)