Dynamo Kyiv v Lazio background
Two of a 2017/18 UEFA Europa League’s highest-scoring teams reassemble in a Ukrainian collateral after a closely-contested 2-2 pull during Rome’s Stadio Olimpico in a initial leg of a turn of 16, with Dynamo Kyiv personification horde to Lazio.
• Both clubs are competing during this theatre for a third time. This is Dynamo’s 50th compare in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final; they turn a ninth bar to strech that milestone, one of a others being Lazio, who are participating in their 54th encounter.
• Dynamo, who finished tip of Group B in a autumn, used a divided goals order to their advantage in a turn of 32, sketch 1-1 divided to AEK Athens before holding a Greek bar 0-0 during home.
• Group K winners Lazio degraded Romania’s FCSB in a turn of 32, scoring 5 goals in a UEFA Europa League match, organisation theatre to final, for a initial time – in a 5-1 second-leg win during a Stadio Olimpico. Having left down 1-0 in Bucharest, that done them a initial Italian bar to win a knockout proviso tie in a rebranded foe after losing a initial leg.
Previous meetings
• After a goalless initial half, a initial leg came alive with 3 goals in 10 minutes, Dynamo holding a lead by Viktor Tsygankov’s third idea in as many UEFA Europa League divided games before Ciro Immobile – with his sixth of a foe – and Felipe Anderson fast incited a compare in Lazio’s favour. The final word, however, went to Dynamo surrogate Júnior Moraes, who equalised on 79 mins to turn a competition’s second top scorer this deteriorate on 7 goals. Dynamo mislaid Denys Garmash to a second yellow label low into combined time.
• The clubs’ usually other encounters came in a 1999/2000 UEFA Champions League initial organisation stage, Lazio winning 2-1 during home and 1-0 away, a latter with a organisation featuring stream trainer Simone Inzaghi. Both clubs went by to a second organisation stage, Lazio with twice as many points as Dynamo (14 to seven).
• The Rome club, coached by Sven Göran Eriksson, eventually outlasted their Ukrainian rivals, reaching a quarter-finals, and also went on to land a Serie A/Coppa Italia double. Dynamo, led by Valeriy Lobanovskiy, emulated them by scooping both vital Ukrainian domestic trophies that season.
• Dynamo have won usually dual of their 23 matches opposite Italian clubs, both opposite Lazio’s city rivals Roma in a 2004/05 UEFA Champions League organisation theatre – nonetheless a 3-0 win during a Stadio Olimpico was awarded by pledge after a half-time abandonment with a visitors heading 1-0. The lapse tie was won 2-0, nonetheless Dynamo unsuccessful to swell from a organisation notwithstanding accumulating 10 points. It stays their usually home win in 11 games opposite Italian antithesis (D3 L7).
• Lazio have won 3 of their 5 European divided games opposite Ukrainian opposition, scoring 8 goals and surrender two, and exaggerate an altogether record of W8 D2 L1. Those 10 matches have been opposite 5 opposite clubs, a usually better entrance in their really initial encounter, a opening leg of a 1975/76 UEFA Cup initial turn tie divided to Chornomorets Odesa (0-1), who were representing a USSR; Lazio were 3-0 winners in a return.
Form guide
• Dynamo are dominant in their final 7 European home fixtures, winning 5 of them and scoring 21 goals while surrender six. They have also avoided better in their final 11 UEFA Europa League fixtures in Kyiv, play-offs enclosed (W8 D3).
• The Ukrainian side’s 0-0 pull in a turn of 32 opposite AEK brought them a initial purify piece in 8 prime European matches during home (W2 D4 L2).
• Dynamo were a initial organisation to book their place in a knockout phase, on matchday four, and scored 15 goals in a organisation theatre – a figure bettered usually by Group L qualifiers Zenit (17) and Real Sociedad (16). They now have 18 goals, one fewer than Lazio.
• Runners-up in a Ukrainian Premier League final season, Dynamo mislaid to Young Boys on divided goals in a third subordinate turn of a UEFA Champions League before reaching a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre pleasantness of a 3-1 total play-off win over MarÃtimo.
• Dynamo are in a UEFA Europa League turn of 16 for a third time. They have won any of their prior dual ties during this stage, claiming home victories in any box – opposite Manchester City in 2010/11 (2-0 home, 0-1 away) and another English club, Everton, in 2014/15 (1-2 away, 5-2 home). They were also semi-finalists in a final UEFA Cup, in 2008/09, losing to associate Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk in a final four.
• Lazio have mislaid their final dual European fixtures outward Italy, opposite Zulte Waregem (2-3) and FCSB (0-1), carrying formerly equalled a UEFA Europa League record, organisation theatre to final, by going 11 unbroken divided matches dominant (W4 D7). The better in Belgium was their initial in 28 UEFA Europa League organisation games, home or divided (W17 D10).
• UEFA Cup runners-up in 1998, and UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup winners a following year, Lazio are competing in a UEFA Europa League after a one-season absence, carrying done it behind interjection to a fifth-place finish in Serie A final term. They have competent for a knockout proviso in any of their final 5 participations.
• This is a Rome side’s third coming in a UEFA Europa League turn of 16. They kick Stuttgart 5-1 on total during this theatre in 2012/13 (2-0 away, 3-1 home) though mislaid 4-1 over a dual legs to Sparta Praha in 2015/16 (1-1 away, 0-3 home).
• Dynamo have competent 10 times out of 11 after sketch a initial leg divided from home in a European tie, many recently in this season’s turn of 32 opposite AEK. They have drawn a initial leg 2-2 divided on 3 occasions, prevalent any time, many significantly opposite Universitatea Craiova in a second turn of a 1985/86 European Cup Winners’ Cup (3-0 home), that they went on to win.
• Lazio have won 4 of a 5 UEFA foe ties in that they drew a initial leg during home – nonetheless nothing of these have been after 2-2 scorelines – losing usually opposite Marseille in a 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-final (1-1 home, 0-3 away). The successes embody their initial dual ties en track to winning a 1998/99 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup – opposite Lausanne (1-1 home, 2-2 away) and Partizan (0-0 home, 3-2 away).
Links and trivia
• Dynamo manager Aleksandr Khatskevich played opposite Lazio for Dinamo Minsk in a 1994/95 UEFA Cup initial turn (0-0 in Minsk, 1-4 in Rome).
• Dynamo goalkeeper Denys Boyko conceded 4 goals in dual games opposite Lazio (1-1 in Ukraine, 1-3 in Italy) while personification for Dnipro in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, with Sergej Milinković-Savić and Marco Parolo among a scorers.
• Immobile scored a hat-trick in Lazio’s turn of 32 second leg opposite FCSB on his initial start in this season’s competition. His dual goals in a organisation stage, opposite Vitesse and Zulte Waregem, came as a substitute.
• Immobile scored a usually idea for Italy’s Under-21s when they degraded a Ukraine side featuring Vitaliy Buyalskiy in a Mar 2013 friendly.
• Milinković-Savić and Aleksandar Pantić played together for Serbia’s U-21 team, while Jordan Lukaku and Dieumerci Mbokani are former team-mates during Anderlecht (2011–13).
• Lazio’s Nani and Stefan de Vrij have both faced Dynamo with prior clubs in a UEFA Champions League, a former successfully for Manchester United (4-2 away, 4-0 home in a 2007/08 organisation stage), a latter unsuccessfully for Feyenoord (1-2 away, 0-1 home in a 2012/13 third subordinate round).
• The first-leg outcome was a 18th UEFA Europa League pull that Lazio have been concerned in, organisation theatre to final – a foe record. Dynamo, carrying drawn their final 3 matches, are tighten behind with 16.
• Garmash’s red label in a initial leg means that Dynamo have assimilated FCSB and Sporting CP with a many sendings-off (ten) in a story of a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final.
Penalty shoot-outs
• Dynamo won their usually UEFA chastisement shoot-out:
3-1 v Sparta Praha, 1998/99 UEFA Champions League second subordinate round
• Lazio have nonetheless to underline in a UEFA chastisement shoot-out.
The coaches
• Hired as Dynamo manager in Jul 2017, Aleksandr Khatskevich won 7 unbroken joining titles with a bar as a actor from 1996–2004, carrying also won 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.
• Lazio trainer given Apr 2016, when he transposed Stefano Pioli, Simone Inzaghi represented a bar as a brazen from 1999–2010, winning a Italian double in his entrance season. The younger hermit of associate ex-Italian general Filippo Inzaghi, with whom he played during home-town outfit Piacenza, he began coaching Lazio’s girl teams immediately after unresolved adult his boots.