Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir v Ludogorets background
Turkish clubs have had a magnitude of Bulgarian antithesis given 2000: good news for Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir as they acquire Ludogorets Razgrad in UEFA Europa League Group C.
Previous meetings
• The sides are assembly for a initial time, conjunction carrying played teams from their rivals’ home countries before.
• Turkish clubs are dominant in 10 UEFA matches with Bulgarian opponents given a spin of a millennium: W7 D3 (W5 D0 during home).
Form guide
• Last term’s Turkish Süper Lig runners-up, BaÅŸakÅŸehir have won usually one of their 5 European home games to date: W1 D1 L3.
• Ludogorets are but a win in 8 European divided matches: D5 L3.
• Beaten by Sevilla in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Başakşehir are creation their UEFA organisation theatre entrance this season.
• Bulgarian champions Ludogorets got to a turn of 16 in their usually prior UEFA Europa League organisation theatre debate of 2013/14 – and played in final season’s turn of 32 after transferring from a UEFA Champions League.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Razgrad to Istanbul is around 350km.
• Ludogorets’ Marcelinho serves a one-match cessation for this game.
• Basakşehir full-back Júnior Caiçara played for Ludogorets from 2012–15, winning 3 Bulgarian titles and a Bulgarian Cup.
The coaches
• Abdullah Avcı led Turkey to success in a 2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship before holding assign of Başakşehir for a initial time from 2006–11. He returned in 2014 following an catastrophic army as Turkey boss.
• Hired in summer 2017, Ludogorets manager Dimitar Dimitrov determined his coaching repute during home-town bar Neftochimik Burgas and landed Bulgarian titles with Litex Lovech and Levski Sofia, after coaching in Russia and Kazakhstan.
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