Salzburg v Vitória SC background
Salzburg go into their final home tie in Group we staid to sign a fifth appearance in a UEFA Europa League’s knockout phase. Opponents Vitória SC might need a win to keep alive their prospects of serve progress.
• The Austrian bar will go by with a win, while a pull will be good adequate if Konyaspor do not kick Marseille during home in a other organisation encounter. Vitória SC will be separated if they destroy to win and Marseille delight in Turkey.
Previous meetings
• The opening-night competition in Guimaraes – a clubs’ initial European assembly – finished in a 1-1 draw as Salzburg’s Valon Berisha equalised an opener from defender Pedrão.
• In Vitória SC’s usually encounters with an Austrian side before to that game, they were beaten 2-1 divided and 4-1 during home by Altach in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League third subordinate round. That was their final European tie until they met Salzburg on matchday one.
• Salzburg’s usually other assembly with Portuguese opponents was a 1993/94 UEFA Cup third-round tie opposite Sporting CP; they mislaid 2-0 divided though won a lapse leg 3-0 after additional time and went on to strech a final.
Form guide
• Salzburg are dominant in 13 European matches, including 9 in a UEFA Europa League, play-offs enclosed (W6 D3). They have conceded usually once in 5 home European matches this tenure and have kept purify sheets in a final three.
• Vitória SC are but a win in 12 UEFA divided matches (D3 L9) – a run stretching behind to a 1-0 feat during Wisła Kraków in Sep 2005. Their divided record in 7 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation games also lacks a feat (D2 L5); they have mislaid their final 3 divided games 2-1.
• 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 subsequent in their prior 3 attempts.
• Fourth in a Liga and runners-up in a Portuguese Cup final season, Vitória SC are participating in their third UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League organisation stage. They unsuccessful to make it by in both 2005/06 and 2013/14.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Guimaraes to Salzburg is around 1,800km.
• Salzburg won final season’s UEFA Youth League, violence Benfica in a final underneath Marco Rose – now in assign of a comparison side.
• Along with FCSB, Salzburg are in a record seventh UEFA Europa League organisation stage. They could turn a initial organisation to win their organisation on 4 occasions; they are now one of 8 clubs to have finished so 3 times (none of a other 7 are competing in this season’s organisation stage).
• Salzburg are a usually bar to have available a limit 18 points in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre on dual occasions (2009/10 and 2013/14).
• This is Salzburg’s 51st UEFA Europa League match, organisation theatre to final; usually Spanish clubs Villarreal and Athletic Club have played more.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Jubal (Vitória SC).
The coaches
• Previously active as youth-team boss, Marco Rose stepped adult to a comparison Salzburg helm after prototype Óscar GarcÃa left in June. A defender with home-town bar Leipzig, Hannover and Mainz, he has been on Salzburg’s staff given 2013.
• Vitória SC manager given summer 2016, Pedro Martins formerly managed MarÃtimo (2012/13) and Rio Ave (2014/15) in this competition’s organisation stage. A former Guimarães midfielder, he was capped once during his time during Sporting CP (1995–98).