Hapoel Beer-Sheva v FCSB background
Hapoel Beer-Sheva are on a home winning strain in Europe this season, though are adult opposite an FCSB side who have excelled so distant in UEFA Europa League Group G.
Previous meetings
• The teams are assembly for a initial time, and it is Beer-Sheva’s lass confront with a Romanian club.
• In their usually past knowledge of Israeli opposition, FCSB played Maccabi Haifa in a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League organisation stage. They mislaid 5-0 in Haifa – their heaviest better in a UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League game – though won a lapse compare 4-2.
Form guide
• UEFA Champions League subordinate included, Beer-Sheva have won all 4 of their European home games this season, scoring twice in any (three 2-1s and a 2-0).
• FCSB have won both of their Group G matches – their best-ever start to a UEFA organisation theatre campaign.
• Beaten on divided goals by Maribor in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Beer-Sheva are behind in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a second true season, carrying done it to a turn of 32 in 2016/17.
• Defeated 5-1 on total by Sporting CP in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, FCSB are competing in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a seventh time given a contest insincere a stream format in 2009/10 (a record they share with Salzburg). They have twice reached a knockout phase.
Trivia and links
• The tour from Bucharest to Beer Sheva is around 1,650km.
• Beer-Sheva’s Anthony Nwakaeme (Universitatea Cluj 2009–13) and Hatem Elhamed (Dinamo BucureÅŸti 2015) both played in Romania.
• FCSB midfielder Mihai Pintilii played in Israel with Maccabi Tel-Aviv (2015–16).
The coaches
• Appointed Beer-Sheva manager in 2015, Barak Bakhar soon directed a bar to their initial pretension in 40 years, and successfully shielded that climax in 2016/17. A defender, he spent his personification heyday during Hapoel Kiryat Shmona, whom he after coached.
• Nicolae Dică returned to FCSB as manager in May 2017, carrying served a bar as a actor in dual prior spells, alighting dual titles – and a serve one with CFR Cluj. The aggressive midfielder also played in Italy, Greece and Turkey.