Celtic and Anderlecht follow Europa League consolation
Celtic FC and RSC Anderlecht have both found a going tough in Group B, nonetheless one bar will have a satisfaction of a place in a UEFA Europa League in a spring, with Celtic holding a advantage forward of matchday six.
• The Scottish bar were 3-0 winners in Belgium on matchday dual and, with both clubs losing all their other games, reason a three-point pillow in third place as a result. Anderlecht contingency therefore win by a three-goal domain in Glasgow to pass their opponents; if they win 3-0, a Belgian outfit finish third on altogether idea difference.
Previous meetings
• The clubs’ usually past contests before this deteriorate came in a 2003/04 organisation stage, when any won their home diversion nonetheless conjunction side was means to progress from Group A.
• The initial compare in Belgium finished 1-0 to Anderlecht, Aruna Dindane scoring 18 mins from time for Les Mauves, who played 64 mins with 10 organisation after captain Glen De Boeck collected a second yellow label in a 26th minute. That is Anderlecht’s usually win opposite Scottish opponents from 11 attempts (D4 L6).
• Dindane was on aim again during Celtic Park, distinguished in a 77th notation after Ivica Mornar had missed a penalty, though by afterwards a hosts led 3-0 by goals from Henrik Larsson (12), Liam Miller (17) and Chris Sutton (29). That 3-1 feat valid essential as Celtic edged out Anderlecht for third place in a territory on head-to-head record after a twin finished turn on 7 points.
• The line-ups during Celtic Park on 21 Oct 2003 were:
Celtic: Hedman, Agathe, Baldé, Varga, McNamara, Lennon, Petrov, Miller (Gray 76), Larsson, Sutton, Hartson (Maloney 83; Sylla 90+1).
Anderlecht: ZÃtka, Deschacht, Kompany, Å»ewÅ‚akow, Baseggio, Hendrikx (Kolář 63), Hasi, Wilhelmsson, Tihinen, Mornar, Dindane.
• Olivier Deschacht played in both games and is still in a Anderlecht squad.
Match background
Celtic
• Celtic have mislaid both home games in Group B, going down 5-0 opposite Paris Saint-Germain in their opening fixture – a Hoops’ heaviest home improved in Europe – before a 2-1 retreat during a hands of FC Bayern München on matchday four.
• Celtic halted a ten-game (D3 L7), four-year winless run in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre by overcoming Anderlecht on matchday two, their biggest divided feat in a UEFA Champions League. Their prior win had been a 2-1 home success over AFC Ajax on 22 Oct 2013.
• The Anderlecht win is a Hoops’ usually feat in 19 European organisation theatre fixtures in a UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League (D7 L11).
• Celtic have won usually dual of their final 8 European home matches (D2 L4).
• Celtic have won usually one of their final 9 home games in a UEFA Champions League correct (D1 L7).
• In 2016/17 a Glasgow bar came fourth in their section, collecting 3 points from 6 games. They drew during home to Manchester City FC (1-1) and mislaid 2-0 to both VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Barcelona.
• Celtic started this deteriorate in a second subordinate round, violence Linfield FC (2-0 away, 4-0 home) and afterwards Rosenborg BK in a third subordinate turn (0-0 home, 1-0 away). They posted a fifth true purify piece with a 5-0 win opposite FC Astana in a home initial leg of their play-off, advancing notwithstanding a 4-3 detriment in Kazakhstan.
• The Scottish champions have won all 3 European games opposite Belgian visitors. In further to that 2003 improved of Anderlecht, they got a improved of KAA Gent in a 1984/85 European Cup Winners’ Cup initial (3-0) and K. Beerschot AC during a same theatre of a 1991/92 UEFA Cup (2-0), winning both ties 3-1 on aggregate.
Anderlecht
• Anderlecht have never won in Scotland, where their record is D2 L3.
• Before this season, 19 clubs had mislaid all 6 games in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage. Having finished so in 2004/05, Anderlecht would join GNK Dinamo Zagreb as a usually clubs to humour that predestine twice should they remove in Glasgow.
• Anderlecht have not faced Scottish antithesis other than Celtic in 25 years, violence Hibernian FC on divided goals in a 1992/93 UEFA Cup initial turn (2-2 away, 1-1 home).
• The Belgian bar have not won an divided diversion in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, given a 1-0 feat during Real Betis Balompié on 6 Dec 2005. Their divided record given afterwards reads D8 L6; this deteriorate they have mislaid 3-0 during Bayern and 5-0 during Paris.
• In 2016/17, Anderlecht fell to FC Rostov in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate round. Moving into a UEFA Europa League, they went all a approach to a final eight – their initial European quarter-final given losing to FC Internazionale Milano in a 1996/97 UEFA Cup – eventually bowing out to Manchester United FC (1-1 home, 1-2 away aet).
Coach and actor links
• Derdryck Boyata grew adult in Brussels and was during FC Brussels from a age of 13 to 16 before fasten Manchester City in 2006.
• Matz Sels, Leander Dendoncker and Boyata are general team-mates with Belgium.
• Andy Najar’s Honduras warranted a 1-1 FIFA World Cup subordinate pull opposite a Costa Rica side including Cristian Gamboa on 28 Mar 2017.