Lazio v Vitesse background
The usually one of a 48 clubs in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre to have won all 4 of their opening fixtures, Lazio are already by to a turn of 32 as Group K winners as they face bottom-placed Vitesse in Rome.
• While a Serie A side can turn usually a ninth team – and eighth club – to validate from a UEFA Europa League organisation with limit points, their Dutch opponents will be separated unless they win and a other compare between Nice and Zulte Waregem is drawn.
Previous meetings
• Lazio non-stop their debate with a 3-2 feat in Arnhem on matchday one – a clubs’ initial assembly in UEFA competition. Vitesse led twice, by Tim Matavž and Bryan Linssen, though a visitors came behind to take 3 points with goals from Marco Parolo, Ciro Immobile and Alessandro Murgia.
• Lazio’s 5 games opposite Dutch opponents have brought dual wins, one pull and dual defeats. They have won once and mislaid once in Rome.
• Vitesse’s record in 5 matches with Italian sides is W1 D2 L2 (D1 L1 in Italy).
Form guide
• Lazio are undefeated in 26 UEFA Europa League organisation games (W16 D10) and have now competent for a knockout proviso in any of their final 5 participations.
• Lazio have won 7 of their final 8 European home fixtures, a solitary difference a 3-0 better by Sparta Praha in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League turn of 16. They beat Nice 1-0 with an added-time possess idea on matchday four.
• Vitesse have not won in 10 European matches (D2 L8) and are also though a feat in their final 8 UEFA divided games (D4 L4) – a run stretching behind over 15 years to a 1-0 feat during Rapid Bucureşti in Oct 2002.
• UEFA Cup runners-up in 1998 and UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup winners a following year, Lazio are behind in a UEFA Europa League after a one-season absence, carrying progressed to a final 16 in 2015/16.
• Vitesse are featuring in a organisation theatre of a UEFA foe for a initial time – reward for carrying won a 2016/17 Dutch Cup, their lass vital trophy.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Arnhem to Rome is around 1,200km.
• Lazio have Dutch talent in their ranks – defender Stefan de Vrij, who played for Feyenoord from 2009–14.
• Vitesse strikers Matavž (Genoa, 2016) and Luc Castaignos (Internazionale, 2011–12) have both played in Italy, though conjunction figured for their Serie A clubs opposite Lazio.
• Vitesse’s Alexander Büttner is dangling after his red label opposite Zulte Waregem on matchday four.
• Misses subsequent compare if booked: Luis Felipe (Lazio); Thulani Serero, Thomas Bruns (Vitesse).
The coaches
• Lazio trainer given 2016, Simone Inzaghi represented a bar as a brazen from 1999–2010, and stayed on to manager a girl teams. He is a younger hermit of associate ex-Italian general Filippo Inzaghi, a span carrying primarily played together during home-town outfit Piacenza.
• Vitesse manager given 2016, heading them to their ancestral Dutch Cup delight final season, Surinam-born Henk Fraser was capped 7 times by a Netherlands as a defender, spending a bulk of his personification career during Feyenoord, where he was after a girl coach. He took his initial comparison pursuit during Den Haag from 2014–16.