Partizan v Young Boys background
Partizan go into their UEFA Europa League Group B confront with Young Boys meaningful that a home win will pledge their thoroughfare by to a turn of 32, bringing them prime European football for a initial time in 13 years.
• Partizan will go by if they win regardless of a Skënderbeu-Dynamo Kyiv outcome due to their head-to-head supremacy over Skënderbeu.
• Although nonetheless to post a feat in a section, Young Boys still have copiousness to play for as a win in Belgrade will lift them above Partizan into second place with one matchday remaining. They are out if they lose.
Previous meetings
• The teams’ initial assembly in UEFA competition, during a Stade de Suisse on matchday one, finished with a points common as a idea every in a initial 14 mins – Christian Fassnacht equalising for Young Boys shortly after Marko Janković had put Partizan forward – led to a 1-1 draw.
• In their usually encounters with Serbian antithesis before to that, Young Boys were separated by Crvena zvezda in a 2004/05 UEFA Champions League second subordinate turn – sketch 2-2 during home though losing 3-0 in Belgrade.
• Partizan were knocked out of a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League play-offs by Swiss opponents, following adult a 1-0 feat opposite Thun with a 3-0 detriment in Switzerland. Young Boys’ Sékou Sanogo featured in both legs for Thun.
Form guide
• Partizan’s 2-0 win during home to Skënderbeu on matchday 4 was usually their third in 14 UEFA Europa League organisation games on home dirt (D4 L7).
• Swiss Super League runners-up final term, Young Boys have catastrophic to win any of their final 6 European matches (D3 L3).
• Serbian joining and crater winners in 2016/17, Partizan have reached a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fifth time in a competition’s stream incarnation, though they are nonetheless to swell to a turn of 32. Indeed, they have been catastrophic in their final 7 UEFA organisation stages given reaching a knockout proviso of a UEFA Cup in 2004/05.
• Beaten home and divided by CSKA Moskva in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Young Boys are contesting a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fifth time. They have done it by twice in 4 attempts – in 2010/11 and 2014/15.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Berne to Belgrade is only over 1,000km.
• Partizan’s Everton Bilher played in Switzerland with Lugano (2013–14) and St Gallen (2014–16).
• Partizan’s Nemanja Antonov is on loan from another Swiss side, Grasshoppers, where he arrived in 2015.
• Young Boys’ Miralem Sulejmani started his career during Partizan though done only one brief surrogate coming in Nov 2005 before being sealed by Heerenveen.
• Zoran Tošić, who non-stop a scoring for Partizan during home to Skënderbeu on matchday four, sits out this confront by suspension.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Ognjen Ožegović, Leandre Tawamba (Partizan); Christian Fassnacht (Young Boys).
The coaches
• Miroslav Djukić was reserved a second army as Partizan manager in Jun 2017, carrying formerly been in assign in 2007. The 48-times capped Yugoslavia sweeper played in Spain with Deportivo and Valencia, and spent most of a final decade coaching there too.
• Austrian manager Adi Hütter has been in assign of Young Boys given Sep 2015. A midfielder who spent a bulk of his career with Salzburg, he returned to lead a bar to a domestic double in 2014/15 after managerial spells during Altach and Grödig.