Crvena zvezda v Köln background
There is all to play for in Belgrade as Crvena zvezda horde Köln in a winner-takes-all Group H showdown.
• The dual clubs are sealed on 6 points apiece – 4 behind organisation winners Arsenal – and victory for possibly organisation will secure their gift as runners-up. If a compare is drawn, Crvena zvezda will finish above Köln on head-to-head rankings, and they will go by unless BATE Borisov, one indicate in arrears, win a other compare divided to Arsenal.
Previous meetings
• Crvena zvezda prevailed 1-0 during Köln on matchday two interjection to a fantastic 30th-minute strike from Richmond Boakye.
• In a sides’ usually other meetings, Christoph Daum’s Köln overcame a 2-0 divided necessity to discharge Dragan Å ekularac’s Crvena zvezda from a 1989/90 UEFA Cup third turn with a 3-0 feat in Cologne. Crvena zvezda went on to win a European Cup a following season, creation Köln a final organisation to discharge them from continental foe before that triumph.
• Crvena zvezda’s record in 30 games opposite German antithesis is an evenly-balanced W13 D4 L13. At home it is W9 D4 L2.
• Köln have won dual and mislaid 3 of their 5 matches opposite Serbian outfits.
Form guide
• Crvena zvezda have not conceded some-more than one idea in any of their final 7 European home games (W4 D2 L1). They have shipped usually dual goals in Group H though usually scored twice themselves.
• Köln have mislaid their final 4 divided fixtures in a UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League. They are behest to turn a initial bar to strech a UEFA Europa League knockout proviso after losing their opening 3 organisation matches.
• Second in Serbia final term, and UEFA Cup runners-up in 1978/79, Crvena zvezda final contested a organisation theatre in 2007/08, when they mislaid all 4 games.
• Runners-up to Real Madrid in a two-legged 1986 UEFA Cup final, Köln are behind in Europe for a initial time in 20 years. Their usually prior organisation campaigns were in a UEFA Intertoto Cup; these are their initial autumnal European fixtures for a entertain of a century.
Links and trivia
• The tour from perfume to Belgrade is around 1,200km.
• Köln’s Serbian midfielder MiloÅ¡ Jojić started his career with Crvena zvezda’s internal rivals Partizan.
• Crvena zvezda’s Filip Stojković (1860 München 2016/17) and Vujadin Savić (Dynamo Dresden 2012–13, Arminia Bielefeld 2014) have both played bar football in Germany.
• Crvena zvezda are one of 3 teams to have done it all a approach from initial subordinate turn to organisation theatre this season, along with Skënderbeu and Maccabi Tel-Aviv, and a usually one of a 3 still in with a possibility of serve progress.
• Crvena zvezda striker 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: Guelor Kanga, Srdjan Babić (Crvena zvezda); Sehrou Guirassy (Köln).
The coaches
• 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.
• Peter Stöger has guided Köln behind into Europe for a initial time in 20 years. A four-time joining champion – and 65-times capped general – as a actor in his local Austria, he changed to Köln after steering Austria Wien to a 2012/13 title.