Salzburg v Dortmund background
Bidding to turn a initial Austrian bar to strech a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, Salzburg are in assign of this turn of 16 tie as they horde Borussia Dortmund armed with a 2-1 lead from a initial leg in Germany – a outcome that enlarged their dominant run in Europe to 18 matches.
• UEFA Europa League regulars Salzburg won their organisation for a fourth time – a foe record – before expelling Real Sociedad 4-3 on total in a turn of 32 and so creation a second coming in a final 16.
• Having crossed over to this foe after finishing third in their UEFA Champions League organisation with usually dual points, Dortmund claimed their initial European win of a deteriorate by defeating Atalanta 3-2 in a home leg of a turn of 32 before sealing their thoroughfare interjection to surrogate Marcel Schmelzer’s late equaliser in Italy (1-1).
Previous meetings
• Salzburg claimed their initial win on German dirt in a initial leg interjection to dual goals early in a second half from Kosovo general midfielder Valon Berisha, a initial from a chastisement spot. André Schürrle bundled a turn home from tighten operation for Dortmund shortly thereafter though a Austrian bar hold on in a initial rival assembly between a dual clubs.
• Salzburg have mislaid 4 of their 9 matches opposite German clubs, winning three. The initial dual victories both came in Austria, many recently opposite Dortmund’s internal rivals Schalke on matchday 6 of final season’s UEFA Europa League organisation theatre (2-0), nonetheless they were already eliminated.
• Both Eintracht Frankfurt and Karlsruhe were separated by Salzburg en track to a 1993/94 UEFA Cup final. Those were landmark triumphs as no Austrian side had ever formerly knocked out German antithesis from a European competition..
• Before a initial leg Dortmund had a flawless record opposite Austrian clubs in UEFA matches, winning 4 out of four. Their trail to a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals began with a third subordinate turn attainment over Wolfsberg, a 1-0 divided win preceding a 5-0 attainment during home in that Marco Reus non-stop a scoring.
Form guide
• Salzburg are dominant in their final 18 European matches (W11 D7), given a 1-0 better during home to Nice on matchday 3 of final season’s UEFA Europa League. That includes a run of 8 matches though better during home (W6 D2), that started with that attainment over Schalke and has yielded usually dual goals to a opposition.
• Having come undefeated by a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a record fourth time, this is Salzburg’s second coming in a turn of 16. The Austrian bar have never left over this turn in 7 prior UEFA Europa League participations, their usually tie during this theatre carrying finished in better to Basel in 2013/14 (0-0 away, 1-2 home).
• Salzburg’s benefaction of usually one idea in a organisation theatre equalled another UEFA Europa League record, set by Standard Liège in 2011/12, nonetheless a 7 goals they scored amounted to a lowest series purebred by any of this season’s 12 organisation winners.
• Austrian joining and crater double winners for a past 4 seasons, and 1994 UEFA Cup runners-up, Salzburg missed a cut in final year’s UEFA Europa League organisation theatre – after next in their prior 3 attempts.
• Dortmund are though a attainment in 7 European divided matches (D3 L4), a 1-1 pull during Atalanta in a turn of 32 finale a run of 3 unbroken defeats outward Germany in open knockout games.
• The German bar purebred usually dual points in their autumn UEFA Champions League debate though managed to take third place in Group H on idea disproportion forward of Cypriot bar APOEL. It was a initial time in 13 organisation campaigns in that foe that they unsuccessful to register a win.
• Dortmund have scored and conceded in all 9 of their European fixtures this season.
• The Schwarzgelben reached a quarter-finals in their many new UEFA Europa League adventure, in 2015/16, carrying degraded Tottenham 3-0 during home and 2-1 divided in a turn of 16.
• Dortmund competent for this season’s UEFA Champions League after finishing third in a 2016/17 Bundesliga. They also won a German Cup final term, defeating Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1 in a Berlin final.
• Salzburg have competent from all 9 of a prior European ties in that they have posted an divided win in a initial leg, dual of those carrying taken place progressing this deteriorate when they overcame Maltese side Hibernians in a UEFA Champions League second subordinate turn (3-0 away, 3-0 home) and Viitorul of Romania in a UEFA Europa League play-offs (3-1 away, 4-0 home).
• The usually prior time they have won a initial leg divided by a 2-1 scoreline – opposite Maccabi Haifa in a 1994/95 UEFA Champions League subordinate proviso – they also won a lapse 3-1.
• Dortmund have mislaid all 6 of a UEFA foe ties in that they mislaid a initial leg during home, many recently in final season’s UEFA Champions League quarter-final opposite Monaco (2-3 home, 1-3 away). Aside from that tie, all of their other first-leg home defeats have been by a domain of dual goals, including a 1992/93 UEFA Cup final that they mislaid opposite Juventus (1-3 home, 0-3 away).
Links and trivia
• Dortmund are one of 3 former UEFA Champions League winners remaining in a UEFA Europa League field, Marseille and Milan being a others.
• Salzburg are a usually reigning domestic champions left in a competition. Six others were separated in a turn of 32 – Astana, Celtic, FC København, Ludogorets, Partizan and Spartak Moskva.
• This is a Austrian club’s 16th European compare in 2017/18 – some-more than any other organisation in a UEFA Europa League turn of 16. Defender Andreas Ulmer has been on a margin for each notation of a debate that began in a second subordinate turn of a UEFA Champions League, with striker Munas Dabbur also starting all 15 matches.
• Salzburg are behest to make Austria a 14th republic represented in a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals. No other Austrian bar has done it as distant as a turn of 16.
• Dortmund were one of usually 3 clubs – alongside French twin Lyon and Marseille – to come by their turn of 16 tie after personification a initial leg during home.
• Salzburg won final season’s UEFA Youth League, violence Benfica in a final underneath Marco Rose – now in assign of a comparison side.
• André Schürrle was a Mainz team-mate of Rose between 2009 and 2011.
• Ömer Toprak and André Ramalho played together during Bayer Leverkusen in 2015/16.
• Shinji Kagawa and Takumi Minamino played dual games together for Japan in autumn 2015.
• Dortmund’s Austrian manager Peter Stöger played opposite Salzburg for several teams in his homeland, scoring 5 goals in 42 appearances with a record W18 D9 L15. His coaching record opposite them with Austria Wien and Wiener Neustadt was W1 D3 L6.
• Stöger was in assign of Köln in this season’s UEFA Europa League organisation stage, withdrawal before matchday six.
• Dortmund contingent Reus, Schürrle and Mario Götze have all scored general goals for Germany opposite Austria.
• Jérôme Onguéné is now on loan to Salzburg from German Bundesliga bar VfB Stuttgart.
• This deteriorate Salzburg became a initial bar to win their UEFA Europa League organisation on 4 occasions. Eleven others have achieved a attainment 3 times.
• This is Salzburg’s 56th UEFA Europa League match, organisation theatre to final; usually Spanish clubs Villarreal (62) and Athletic Club (60) have played more. Their total of 29 wins is bettered usually by Villarreal (33), and their stream method of 12 matches though better in a foe correct is second usually to Atlético Madrid’s 15-match run from Nov 2011 to Oct 2012.
Penalty shoot-outs
• Salzburg’s record in dual UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W1 L1:
5-4 v Eintracht Frankfurt, 1993/94 UEFA Cup quarter-final
2-3 v Dinamo Minsk, 2015/16 UEFA Europa League play-off
• Dortmund’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W2 L2:
6-5 v Auxerre, 1992/93 UEFA Cup semi-final
3-1 v Rangers, 1999/2000 UEFA Cup third round
2-4 v Club Brugge, 2003/04 UEFA Champions League third subordinate round
3-4 v Udinese, 2008/09 UEFA Cup initial round
The coaches
• Previously Salzburg’s girl organisation boss, Marco Rose stepped adult to a comparison helm after prototype Óscar GarcÃa left in June, carrying led a bar to attainment in a 2016/17 UEFA Youth League. A defender with home-town bar Leipzig, Hannover and Mainz, he has been on Salzburg’s coaching staff given 2013.
• Peter Stöger was allocated to reinstate Peter Bosz as Dortmund manager on 10 Dec 2017 – a week after he was discharged by Köln, where he had been in assign for 4 and a half years. A four-time joining champion as a actor in his local Austria, with 65 general caps, he changed to Germany after steering Austria Wien to a 2012/13 title.