Dynamo Kyiv v Astana facts
Astana’s third unbroken UEFA Europa League organisation theatre journey kicks off with a tough tie divided to Dynamo Kyiv, a bar with immeasurable knowledge in this foe who have graced a knockout proviso with their participation on 5 occasions.
Previous meetings
• Astana have never faced Ukrainian antithesis before.
• Dynamo’s usually prior tie opposite a organisation from Kazakhstan yielded 11 goals as they romped to an 8-3 sum success opposite Aktobe in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League play-offs. There were 5 opposite Dynamo scorers in a 5-1 home win.
Form guide
Dynamo
• Ukrainian runners-up to Shakhtar Donetsk final term, Dynamo entered a UEFA Champions League third subordinate round, where they degraded Slavia Praha 3-1 before going out in a play-offs to Ajax (1-3 away, 0-0 home).
• This is Dynamo’s seventh impasse in a UEFA Europa League and sixth organisation theatre campaign, 4 of a prior 5 carrying been successful, a difference entrance in 2011/12. Their best opening was in 2014/15, when they reached a quarter-finals, carrying also been semi-finalists in a final ever UEFA Cup of 2008/09.
• Dynamo are dominant in their final 8 home games in a UEFA Europa League organisation stage, winning seven. They have suffered only one better in their final 10 European matches in Kyiv (W6 D3) – 0-2 opposite Lazio in final season’s UEFA Europa League turn of 16, that led to their rejecting – though have unsuccessful to measure in 3 of a final four.
Astana
• Astana are on a run of 4 unbroken domestic joining titles and have come by 4 subordinate ties – a initial 3 in a UEFA Champions League – to finish a hat-trick of UEFA Europa League organisation theatre participations. After defeating Sutjeska and Midtjylland though afterwards losing to Dinamo Zagreb, they won their UEFA Europa League play-off on penalties – their initial European shoot-out – opposite Cypriot champions APOEL after dual 1-0 home wins.
• Having turn a initial organisation from Kazakhstan to play in a UEFA Champions League correct in 2015/16, Astana have spent a final dual autumns in a UEFA Europa League. Their sum of 5 points in 2016/17 was not adequate to see them by though final deteriorate they doubled that sum to strech a turn of 32, where they mislaid 6-4 over dual legs to Sporting CP.
• In any of their 3 European organisation campaigns Astana have mislaid divided on matchday one. Until final deteriorate they had left 18 European matches on a highway though a win, though in 2017/18 they picked adult three. Their final 3 divided fixtures this term, however, have yielded dual defeats and a pull – with no goals scored in any of them.
Links and trivia
• Astana’s conduct manager Roman Hryhorchuk coached Metalurh Zaporizhya and Chornomorets Odesa in his local Ukraine from 2009–2014. In 9 games opposite Dynamo Kyiv, he mislaid seven, drew one and won one.
• Astana defender Sergei Maliy is also from Ukraine, while team-mate Ivan Maevski played 11 matches for Belarus underneath Dynamo’s conduct manager Aleksandr Khatskevich.
• Dynamo’s Tamás Kádár and Astana’s László Kleinheisler are both stream Hungarian internationals, and Dynamo’s Josip Pivarić and Astana’s Marin Tomasov played together for Croatia in 2013.
• Dynamo’s partner manager Maksim Shatskikh played for Astana in 2009.
The coaches
• Hired as Dynamo manager in Jul 2017, Aleksandr Khatskevich won 7 unbroken joining titles with a bar as a actor between 1997 and 2004, carrying also claimed 5 true championships with Dinamo Minsk in his local Belarus. He after worked with Dynamo’s girl and haven teams before holding assign of a Belarus inhabitant side from 2014 to 2016. He was capped 38 times by his country, scoring 4 general goals, 3 of them in gift for a 2002 FIFA World Cup.
• A free-scoring Ukrainian striker, Roman Hryhorchuk has done his name as a manager in eastern Europe, starting out in Latvia, where he won 3 joining titles and dual domestic cups during a four-year spell with Ventspils. He went on to manager Chornomorets Odesa in his homeland and Azerbaijan side Gabala for identical periods, overseeing UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns for both, before replacing Stanimir Stoilov during Kazakh champions Astana in Jun 2018.