Lugano v Hapoel Beer-Sheva background
Wins are needed for both Lugano and Hapoel Beer-Sheva as they find to say their hopes of subordinate from UEFA Europa League Group G.
• The Swiss side, bottom of a list on 3 points, will be out unless they double that total opposite Beer-Sheva. The visitors can also usually pledge their presence with a win – yet their seductiveness would be confirmed if Viktoria Plzeň are concurrently denied feat during home to FCSB.
Previous meetings
• Beer-Sheva were 2-1 victors when a teams met in Israel on matchday one, home defender Shir Tzedek scoring during both ends in a second half after team-mate Daniel Einbinder had beaten a Lugano counterclaim usually dual mins into a contest.
• In their usually prior tie opposite a Swiss team, Hapoel were separated by Thun in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League second subordinate round, sketch 1-1 during home afterwards losing 2-1 in Switzerland.
Form guide
• Lugano have found a net during slightest once in their final 10 European home fixtures. The usually time they unsuccessful to was in their really initial European tie, in a 1968/69 European Cup Winners’ Cup, when they mislaid 1-0 to Barcelona.
• Beer-Sheva are but a win in 4 European divided fixtures (D1 L3). The usually feat they have achieved on a highway in a UEFA Europa League correct was 2-0 during Internazionale Milano on their organisation theatre entrance in 2016/17. Since afterwards they have drawn dual and mislaid three.
• Third in Switzerland final term, Lugano – from a Italian-speaking Ticino canton – have been absent from UEFA foe given 2002/03 and have never before featured in a organisation stage.
• Beaten on divided goals by Maribor in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Beer-Sheva are competing in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a second true season, carrying done it to a turn of 32 on their entrance coming in 2016/17.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Beer Sheva to Lugano is around 2,750km.
• On-loan Lugano midfielder Bálint Vécsei played alongside Beer-Sheva defender Mihály Korhut in his usually dual Hungary appearances so distant – friendlies opposite Albania (1-0) and Kazakhstan (3-0) in Jun 2014.
• Lugano’s Fabio Daprelà and Beer-Sheva’s Loai Taha are both dangling for this compare after picking adult 3 yellow cards in a organisation stage.
The coaches
• Pierluigi Tami took assign of Lugano for a second time in Jun 2017, a Italian-born defender carrying spent his whole veteran career in Switzerland. Notably, he assisted Ottmar Hitzfeld during his spell as inhabitant coach.
• Appointed Beer-Sheva trainer in 2015, Barak Bakhar soon directed a bar to their initial pretension in 40 years, afterwards successfully shielded that climax in 2016/17. A defender, he spent his personification heyday during Hapoel Kiryat Shmona, whom he after coached.