Lokomotiv Moskva v Sheriff background
Lokomotiv Moskva are a usually organisation in UEFA Europa League Group F to have purebred a win so far. Three serve points during home to a Sheriff side who have drawn their opening 3 matches would capacitate a Russian bar to take a hulk step towards a knockout phase.
Previous meetings
• The teams’ initial UEFA encounter, in Tiraspol on matchday three, finished all-square during 1-1 after Sheriff striker Zihur Babiganda scored his team’s initial idea of a organisation theatre to cancel out Anton Miranchuk’s 17th-minute strike.
• The dual sides sealed horns in a semi-finals of a 2003 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup – a foe for a champions of a former Soviet nations. Sheriff won 1-0 nonetheless Lokomotiv fielded a haven team, with a seniors divided from Moscow on a training camp.
• All 5 of Sheriff’s central European games opposite Russian teams have resulted in draws.
Form guide
• Lokomotiv are dominant in 4 European games (W1 D3).
• Sheriff are on a run of 6 uninterrupted draws in a UEFA Europa League, 5 of them this season. They have never won an divided tie in any turn of this foe – a method durability 16 games (D9 L7).
• Lokomotiv are contesting a UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fifth time and have unsuccessful usually once to strech a turn of 32, finishing bottom of their organisation in 2007/08.
• Moldovan champions Sheriff featured in a 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2013/14 UEFA Europa League organisation stages, though they are nonetheless to seem in a open proviso of a UEFA competition.
Trivia and links
• The tour from Tiraspol to Moscow is usually over 1,100km.
• Lokomotiv’s Manuel Fernandes scored a second hat-trick of a 2017/18 organisation stage, attack 3 in a opening 17 mins opposite ZlÃn on matchday two. It was a fifth fastest hat-trick in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final.
• Sheriff defender Vitalie Bordian played for Lokomotiv from 2002–04 – despite but creation a comparison coming – and after returned to Russia with Volga Nizhny Novgorod (2012–14).
• On-loan Lokomotiv brazen Éder struck a extra-time winning idea for Portugal in a UEFA EURO 2016 final opposite France.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Ante Kulušić (Sheriff).
The coaches
• 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 1992–2005. He also played for a club, from 1975–77, and coached Dynamo Kyiv to a 2008/09 Ukrainian championship.
• In assign of Sheriff given Oct 2016, Roberto Bordin is best famous in his local Italy for his prolonged career as a midfielder, that took in spells during Atalanta, Napoli and Piacenza. He was 40 when he finally hung adult his boots during Spezia in 2005.