No room for blunder for APOEL and Dortmund
APOEL FC and Borussia Dortmund have it all to do as they accommodate for a initial time with both looking to get off a symbol in Group H during a third time of asking.
• Both sides have mislaid their initial dual UEFA Champions League games this season, any surrender 6 goals.
• APOEL were beaten 3-0 during holders Real Madrid CF on matchday one, before a 3-0 home better by Tottenham Hotspur FC final time out. Tottenham had overcome Dortmund 3-1 in London in a initial matchweek, with a German organisation afterwards losing by a same scoreline during home to Madrid.
Match background
APOEL
• This is APOEL’s eighth home diversion opposite German opponents. They have mislaid 7 of those prior fixtures, including all a final six.
• The Cypriot club’s solitary success opposite German opposition, home or away, came opposite Berliner FC Dynamo in a 1980/81 European Champion Clubs’ Cup initial round, when they won a second leg 2-1 in Nicosia. APOEL but bent out, carrying gone down 3-0 in a initial diversion in Berlin.
• Furthermore, APOEL have avoided better in usually dual of their 16 matches opposite Bundesliga sides: that Berlin success and a 1-1 pull divided to FC Schalke 04 in their 2008/09 UEFA Cup first-round second leg (2-5 aggregate).
• APOEL’s final confront with a German organisation was also opposite Schalke, in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre (0-3 home, 0-1 away).
• The Tottenham better and a 1-0 detriment to RSC Anderlecht in final season’s UEFA Europa League turn of 16 are APOEL’s usually reverses in their final 12 European home games – 9 of that finished in victory. Those dual defeats featured a usually goals APOEL have conceded in their final 8 home fixtures.
• APOEL have not won a compare in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, given beating Olympique Lyonnais 1-0 in their turn of 16 second leg on 7 Mar 2012. Their successive record is D1 L9.
• The Nicosia outfit are in a organisation theatre for a fourth time, carrying formerly competent in 2009/10, 2011/12 – when they went all a approach from second subordinate turn to quarter-finals, losing to Real Madrid – and 2014/15.
• APOEL have won by from a second subordinate turn to strech this organisation stage, violence Luxembourg’s F91 Dudelange (2-0 on aggregate) and FC Viitorul of Romania (4-1). In a play-offs they eclipsed SK Slavia Praha 2-0 during home before a goalless divided draw.
• Thwarted in a play-offs by FC København 12 months ago, APOEL went on to finish initial in their UEFA Europa League group, subsequently ousting Athletic Club 4-3 on total in a turn of 32 before losing to Anderlecht 1-0 both home and away in a final 16.
Dortmund
• This is Dortmund’s initial diversion opposite a bar from Cyprus.
• Dortmund, contesting a organisation theatre for a 12th time and a sixth in 7 years, have got to a knockout theatre on their final 4 UEFA Champions League appearances. In 2016/17 they beat SL Benfica 4-1 on total in a turn of 16, subsequently losing 6-3 to Monaco over dual legs (2-3 home, 1-3 away).
• On matchday one 12 months ago Dortmund triumphed 6-0 during Legia Warszawa – their biggest-ever European divided success. They also won their subsequent divided match, at Sporting Clube de Portugal (2-1), before feat eluded them in their subsequent 3 on a road, including defeats in a final two.
• Defeat during Tottenham on matchday one means Dortmund have mislaid their final 3 UEFA Champions League divided games; if we supplement a Madrid outcome on matchday two, they have lost their final four, home and away.
• The Bundesliga side have won usually one of their final 7 European matches (D1 L5).
Coach and actor links
• Marc Bartra helped FC Barcelona to home (1-0) and away (4-0) victories opposite APOEL in a 2014/15 organisation stage. Carlão, Vinicius, Nuno Morais, Stathis Aloneftis and George Efrem played for a Cypriot team.
• Nuri Şahin was in a Real Madrid side that knocked out APOEL in a 2011/12 quarter-finals. Nuno Morais and Nektarios Alexandrou represented a Cypriot club.
• Sokratis Papastathopoulos plays alongside VfB Stuttgart’s Anastasios Donis, a son of APOEL manager Giorgos Donis, for Greece.
• Andriy Yarmolenko helped Ukraine to a 1-0 accessible win opposite Cyprus on 24 Mar 2016; Efrem and Antreas Makris played for a losing team.
• Shinji Kagawa was in a Japan side that kick Cyprus 1-0 on 27 May 2014, with Efrem and Giorgos Merkis featuring.
• Have played in Germany:
Boy Waterman (TSV Alemannia Aachen 2011/12).
Efstathios Aloneftis (FC Energie Cottbus 2007/08)
Mikaël Poté (1. FC Dynamo Dresden 2011–14).
Igor de Camargo (VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 2010–13, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 2013)
• Have played together:
Igor de Camargo Marco Reus (VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 2010–12)
Facundo Bertoglio Andriy Yarmolenko (FC Dynamo Kyiv 2011/12)