Lyon v CSKA Moskva background
Home amenities hail 2018 final horde bar Lyon in a second leg of their turn of 16 tie opposite CSKA Moskva following a 1-0 divided win in a Russian collateral – a French club’s third feat out of 3 in this season’s knockout phase.
• Lyon were one of usually 3 clubs to emerge winning from a turn of 32 carrying played a second leg away, adding a 1-0 win in Spain opposite Villarreal to a 3-1 first-leg success during a Parc OL. They were runners-up to Atalanta in a organisation phase.
• Third in their UEFA Champions League organisation during a autumn, CSKA overcame Crvena zvezda in a turn of 32, a goalless pull in Belgrade preceding a 1-0 win in Moscow, with Alan Dzagoev scoring a all-important idea on a cadence of half-time.
Previous meetings
• Lyon’s second unbroken 1-0 divided win in a competition was cumulative when Brazilian defender Marcelo headed in Memphis Depay’s dilemma mid by a second half of a initial leg in Moscow. It was a teams’ initial assembly in UEFA competition.
• Lyon won a initial dual of their 3 home games opposite Russian antithesis though mislaid a many new – 0-2 opposite Zenit in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League organisation stage, carrying been beaten 3-1 by a same opponents in St Petersburg a fortnight earlier.
• CSKA’s record opposite French clubs in Europe is W4 D3 L6, with dual wins, one pull and 3 defeats in France.
• The Army Men’s heaviest European better was opposite Ligue 1 opponents, Marseille strenuous them 6-0 in a initial UEFA Champions League organisation theatre in 1992/93, a club’s initial revisit to France. However, CSKA’s biggest win in that foe came in a French collateral when they finished a double over Paris Saint-Germain by defeating them 3-1 during a Parc des Princes in a 2004/05 organisation stage.
Form guide
• Lyon are dominant during home in 9 European fixtures (W7 D2). That run includes 5 true victories in a UEFA Europa League knockout phase, during that they have scored 19 goals. They have won 6 of their final 7 European matches this season, including any of a final 3 during home.
• Lyon have kept usually one purify sheet, however, in 9 UEFA Europa League home knockout fixtures – and nothing in their final seven.
• The French side’s usually European better in 11 matches in their new track (W8 D2) came opposite Juventus (0-1) on matchday 3 of a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League.
• This is Lyon’s third coming in a UEFA Europa League turn of 16. Their prior dual ties during this theatre both finished in victory, interjection to fatiguing home wins – 4-1 opposite Viktoria Plzeň in 2013/14 (5-3 on aggregate) and 4-2 opposite Roma final deteriorate (5-4 on aggregate).
• Lyon were UEFA Europa League semi-finalists final season, when they mislaid to Ajax carrying eliminated from a UEFA Champions League organisation stage. They ensured a lapse to this season’s UEFA Europa League organisation theatre by finishing fourth in Ligue 1.
• CSKA have won 4 of their 6 European divided fixtures this season, including 2-1 victories during Benfica and Basel in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage. They have conceded usually 4 goals in those 6 matches.
• The Moscow side’s final European knockout proviso impasse was a UEFA Champions League turn of 16 tie with Real Madrid in 2011/12, that they mislaid 5-2 on total (1-1 home, 1-4 away). Their usually prior coming in a UEFA Europa League turn of 16 dates behind to 2010/11, when they were degraded by contingent winners Porto (0-1 home, 1-2 away).
• CSKA have won 5 of their final 8 UEFA Europa League divided games, including qualifying, losing usually one – that 2010/11 turn of 16 confront in Porto.
• CSKA were runners-up to city rivals Spartak Moskva in final season’s Russian Premier League. To strech a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre they came by dual subordinate rounds, defeating both AEK Athens and Young Boys 3-0 on aggregate.
• Lyon have won 12 ties out of 13 in UEFA foe after winning a initial leg divided from home, their usually detriment inflicted by Internazionale Milano in a second turn of a 1997/98 UEFA Cup (2-1 away, 1-3 home).
• The French bar have a 100% success rate in a 5 ties in that they won a initial leg 1-0 away, many recently opposite PSV Eindhoven in a 2005/06 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 (4-0 home). They have won fourof those 5 second legs, sketch a other.
• CSKA have mislaid all 4 European ties when they have mislaid a initial tie during home, many recently in a aforementioned 2010/11 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 opposite Porto, one of dual such ties in that a first-leg measure was 0-1.
Links and trivia
• Lyon are a usually organisation in this season’s turn of 16 who were also benefaction during a same theatre 12 months ago. They are also a usually French bar ever to have reached a quarter-finals of a UEFA Europa League, carrying finished so twice.
• CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev has played each notation of his team’s European debate this season, gripping 7 purify sheets in 13 matches.
• Akinfeev’s counterpart, Anthony Lopes, has further been on a margin for each notation of Lyon’s nine-match UEFA Europa League journey, surrender usually 5 goals and never some-more than one in a game.
• Lyon’s Memphis Depay played twice opposite CSKA for Manchester United in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League organisation stage: a 1-1 divided pull in Khimki, and a 1-0 home win in Manchester.
• This season’s UEFA Europa League final, on 16 May 2018, will be staged in Lyon’s home stadium.
• Lyon are one of usually 4 teams in a UEFA Europa League turn of 16 to have never played in a European final, a others being RB Leipzig, Viktoria Plzeň and Lokomotiv Moskva.
• Lyon’s total of 6 wins in this season’s UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final, is a corner top in a foe along with Arsenal and Zenit.
Penalty shoot-outs
• Lyon’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W1 L2:
2-4 v PSV Eindhoven, 2004/05 UEFA Champions League quarter-final
3-4 v APOEL, 2011/12 UEFA Champions League turn of 16
7-6 v BeÅŸiktaÅŸ, 2016/17 UEFA Europa League quarter-final
• CSKA Moskva’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W0 L1:
6-7 v Ferencváros, 1994/95 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup initial round
The coaches
• Born in Lyon, Bruno Génésio came by a club’s ranks as a midfielder, personification for a comparison side from 1985 to 1995 before saying out his career for one deteriorate during Martigues. He returned to a club’s coaching staff in 2007 and served as partner trainer for 4 years before holding solitary authority in Dec 2015 when he transposed Hubert Fournier.
• Appointed by CSKA to reinstate long-serving manager Leonid Slutski in Dec 2016, Viktor Goncharenko was usually 39 during a time, though he had warranted a flourishing repute in Russian football, particularly while portion as Slutski’s assistant. He done his name as a manager in his local Belarus during BATE Borisov, winning 5 true titles and heading a bar into a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre on 3 occasions.