Lokomotiv Moskva v Atlético background
Two-time UEFA Europa League winners Atlético Madrid continue their office of a record-equalling third delight with a revisit to Lokomotiv Moskva, carrying defeated a Russian Premier League leaders 3-0 during home in a initial leg.
• Lokomotiv won both legs of their turn of 32 tie opposite Nice – 3-2 in a south of France and 1-0 in a Russian collateral – after commanding Group F in a autumn.
• Having crossed over from a UEFA Champions League after finishing third in their group, Atlético simply likely of Danish champions FC København in a turn of 32, also winning both legs – 4-1 in Copenhagen and 1-0 in Madrid – with UEFA Europa League scoring dilettante Kevin Gameiro on aim in both games.
Previous meetings
• Atlético posted a biggest first-leg feat in a turn of 16 with their 3-0 win during a Estadio Metropolitano. A overwhelming long-range strike from Saúl ÑÃguez mid by a initial half set a home side on their approach before second-half goals from Diego Costa – on his initial European coming of a deteriorate – and Koke.
• The dual clubs had met once in European foe before a initial leg, pity a 3-3 pull in Moscow on matchday one of a 2007/08 UEFA Cup organisation stage. Diniyar Bilyaletdinov and Peter Odemwingie (two) scored for Lokomotiv, with star South American strikers Sergio Agüero (two) and Diego Forlán replying for Atlético.
• Lokomotiv have won usually dual of 8 matches opposite Spanish antithesis in Moscow, many famously defeating Real Madrid 2-0 on matchday 6 of a 2001/02 UEFA Champions League initial organisation theatre – despite opposite a Madrid side that had already competent for a subsequent round.
• Their other feat came in a many new confront – 2-1 opposite Athletic Club in a initial leg of a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League turn of 32 – and finished a run of 4 unbroken defeats during home to Spanish clubs. However, a 1-0 retreat in a Bilbao lapse knocked Lokomotiv out.
• Atlético have never mislaid in Russia (W3 D2). However, nonetheless they won on their final revisit to Moscow, 1-0 opposite Rubin Kazan in a 2012/13 UEFA Europa League turn of 32, it was deficient to lengthen their counterclaim of a prize following a 0-2 first-leg retreat in Madrid.
• The Spanish club’s many new revisit to Russia came final deteriorate on matchday 3 of a UEFA Champions League, when they won 1-0 during FC Rostov.
Form guide
• Lokomotiv have won usually 4 of their final 9 European fixtures in Moscow, losing three, though in this season’s UEFA Europa League they have won 3 – opposite FC ZlÃn (3-0), FC København (2-1) and Nice (1-0) – and mislaid one – to FC Sheriff (1-2).
• Lokomotiv competent for this foe by winning a 2016/17 Russian Cup – with a 2-0 feat opposite Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast in a final – and have now progressed from a UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation theatre 4 times out of five.
• The Moscow bar are by to a turn of 16 for a initial time during a fourth attempt, carrying mislaid in a turn of 32 to Sevilla in 2005/06 (UEFA Cup), Athletic Club in 2011/12 and Fenerbahçe in 2015/16. Their many successful European campaigns were in 1997/98 and 1998/99 when, underneath stream manager Yuri Semin, they reached a semi-finals of a UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup dual years running.
• UEFA Europa League victors in 2010 and 2012, Atlético are creation their initial coming in a foe in 5 years. Since afterwards Diego Simeone’s side have participated in dual UEFA Champions League finals and reached a quarter-finals and semi-finals in dual other seasons.
• Atlético have won all 3 of their UEFA Europa League fixtures this term. They finished a five-match winless run on a highway in Europe – that enclosed draws in all 3 of this season’s UEFA Champions League divided games, during Roma (0-0), QarabaÄŸ (0-0) and Chelsea (1-1) – with their 4-1 feat over København in a turn of 32.
• The Madrid bar are on a run of 6 unbroken divided wins in a UEFA Europa League knockout phase. Indeed, their usually detriment in 10 such fixtures (W7 D2), a 2-1 better after additional time opposite Liverpool in a 2009/10 semi-final second leg, still sent them by to a final on a divided goals rule. They were also winning on a highway in a finals of 2010 (Hamburg) and 2012 (Bucharest).
• Atlético finished third in a Spanish Liga final season, and this is usually a second time in 8 attempts that they have catastrophic to swell over a organisation theatre of a UEFA Champions League. However, on a usually other occasion, in 2009/10, they went on to win a initial UEFA Europa League.
• Lokomotiv have usually once recovered to win a European tie after an divided better in a initial leg – in a 2003/04 UEFA Champions League qualifier opposite Shakhtar Donetsk (0-1 away, 3-1 home). They have been catastrophic on a other 7 such occasions, twice after 3-0 defeats including their initial European tie, opposite Juventus in a initial turn of a 1993/94 UEFA Cup (0-1 home). On a initial 6 occasions that they mislaid a initial leg away, they also mislaid a second leg during home, that hapless method remaining total until a 3-1 feat opposite Shakhtar.
• Atlético have won 29 of a 36 UEFA foe ties in that they have prevailed in a home initial leg – including all of a final 17, many recently opposite Leicester in final season’s UEFA Champions League quarter-final (1-0 home, 1-1 away).
• When a home initial leg has finished 3-0, Atlético’s record is 4 education out of four, their many distinguished such delight carrying occurred in 1991/92, when they overcame holders Manchester United in a second turn of a European Cup Winners’ Cup (1-1 away).
Links and trivia
• Lokomotiv are one of usually 4 teams in a UEFA Europa League turn of 16 to have never played in a European final: a others are RB Leipzig, Viktoria Plzeň and Lyon.
• Lokomotiv are also one of usually 4 clubs remaining in a foe that have never formerly been concerned in a UEFA Europa League turn of 16. Leipzig, Milan and Arsenal make adult a quartet.
• Atlético are a usually former UEFA Europa League winners benefaction in a turn of 16, nonetheless dual other remaining participants, CSKA Moskva and Zenit, have carried a same prize in a former guise as a UEFA Cup.
• Stefan Savić captained Montenegro in a 2-0 divided better opposite Russia in UEFA EURO 2016 subordinate in Oct 2015; Igor Denisov played 90 mins for a hosts.
• Gameiro’s dual goals in a turn of 32 carried his all-time UEFA Europa League idea total to 19, a prior 17 carrying all been scored for Sevilla, with whom he was a three-time leader of a competition. Only 3 other players – Radamel Falcao (30), Aritz Aduriz (26) and Óscar Cardozo (20) – have purebred some-more goals in a competition, organisation theatre to final.
• Manuel Fernandes has scored dual hat-tricks in this season’s UEFA Europa League, a initial on matchday dual in a 3-0 home win opposite ZlÃn. He is a seventh actor to have scored some-more than one hat-trick in a foe and a fourth to have finished so in a same season. Falcao binds a record with 3 in one campaign, for Porto in 2010/11.
• Fernandes is one of 3 Lokomotiv players – along with Solomon Kverkvelia and Igor Denisov – to have played each notation of this UEFA Europa League campaign. Vladislav Ignatyev has started all 9 matches.
Penalty shoot-outs
• Lokomotiv Moskva’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W0 L1:
3-4 v Lausanne, 2010/11 UEFA Europa League play-off
• Atlético’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W2 L4:
6-7 v Derby, 1974/75 UEFA Cup second round
1-3 v Fiorentina, 1989/90 UEFA Cup initial round
1-3 v Villarreal, 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup final
3-2 v Leverkusen, 2014/15 UEFA Champions League turn of 16
8-7 v PSV Eindhoven, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League turn of 16
3-5 v Real Madrid, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League final
The coaches
• Now 70, Yuri Semin took assign of Lokomotiv for a fourth time in Aug 2016, carrying carried a club’s usually dual Russian titles during his second army from 1992 to 2005, and soon directed a side to Russian Cup glory. He also played for a club, from 1975 to 1977, and coached Dynamo Kyiv to a 2008/09 Ukrainian joining pretension in a initial of dual spells there.
• Diego Simeone has been a Atlético manager given Dec 2011, and has combined 5 trophies to a club’s collection, including a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League, as good as steering a Madrid bar to a UEFA Champions League finals of 2014 and 2016. The warlike ex-Argentina midfielder also had dual spells during Atlético as a player, winning a Spanish double in 1995/96.