Sevilla prepared to concrete advantage during Spartak Moskva
Sevilla FC will demeanour to connect their position during a tip of Group E as they make a outing to a side immediately next them in a table, FC Spartak Moskva.
• The Spanish bar have 4 points from dual games so far, carrying got their initial feat around a 3-0 home win opposite NK Maribor on matchday two. Spartak have drawn both matches to date and are turn on points with Liverpool FC, who they hold 1-1 in their many new fixture.
• This is a sides’ initial meeting.
Match background
Spartak Moskva
• Spartak have mislaid their final 3 games opposite Spanish clubs, many recently going down away (2-3) and home (0-3) opposite FC Barcelona in a 2012/13 organisation stage.
• Spartak are but a win in their final 6 fixtures opposite Liga sides, home and divided (D2 L4), given a 1-0 feat during RCD Mallorca in a 2003/04 UEFA Cup third turn second leg (1-3 aggregate). That is their usually success in their final 10 fixtures with Spanish sides (D2 L7) and a solitary time they have avoided improved on their final 7 visits to Spain.
• The Russian club’s record divided to Spanish clubs is W4 D0 L9. Overall it is W7 D6 L13.
• This is Spartak’s 12th organisation theatre campaign, and initial given 2012/13, when they came fourth in a territory also including FC Barcelona, SL Benfica and Celtic FC. They have not graced a final 16 given 2000/01, when they reached a second organisation stage.
• On any of their final dual organisation theatre appearances, in 2010/11 and 2012/13, Spartak mislaid dual home games and won a other.
• Before a Liverpool draw, Spartak had mislaid their prior 3 European home matches, and now 4 of a final six. They have won usually 4 of their final 18 home games, losing 11.
• The Moscow bar competent automatically for a organisation theatre by lifting their 22nd joining pretension in 2016/17. Last term, their European debate finished during a initial hurdle, with defeat by AEK Larnaca FC in a UEFA Europa League third subordinate round.
• Spartak are but a win in their final 9 European fixtures, home and away, given a 2-1 feat over Benfica on 23 Oct 2012. Their record given afterwards is D3 L5.
Sevilla
• Sevilla have mislaid usually one of their final 8 games (W4 D3) opposite Russian clubs, 2-1 during home to PFC CSKA Moskva in a 2009/10 turn of 16 second leg (2-3 aggregate).
• Their many new fixtures came in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, when they kick FC Zenit 4-3 on total (2-1 home, 2-2 away) en track to lifting a trophy.
• Sevilla’s altogether record opposite Russian clubs is W5 D4 L3. Away it is W1 D4 L2 – a solitary feat was a 1-0 success during FC Lokomotiv Moskva in a turn of 32 of their winning 2005/06 UEFA Cup campaign.
• Having drawn 2-2 during Liverpool on matchday one, Sevilla’s solitary improved in their final 9 divided matches in UEFA foe (W3 D5) was a 2-0 retreat during Leicester City FC in a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 second leg, completing a 3-2 total loss.
• Last term, Sevilla done it to a turn of 16 for a initial time given 2009/10 – but they have never left serve in a UEFA Champions League era. This is their fifth organisation theatre debate and their third in a row.
• Sevilla competent by finishing fourth in a 2016/17 Spanish Liga. They kick Turkey’s Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir in August’s play-offs, winning a divided initial leg 2-1 before a 2-2 pull in southern Spain.
Coach and actor links
• Sevilla manager Eduardo Berizzo got a improved of Russian antithesis with RC Celta de Vigo in final season’s UEFA Europa League turn of 16, violence FC Krasnodar 2-1 during home and 2-0 away.
• Nicolás Pareja played for Spartak between 2010 and 2013, creation 47 joining appearances and scoring 3 times.
• Luis Muriel and JoaquÃn Correa were team-mates with Fernando during UC Sampdoria in 2015/16.
• Mario Pašalić spent 2014/15 during Elche CF, personification 64 mins of a 3-0 improved during Sevilla on 15 Mar 2015.
• Nolito and Lorenzo Melgarejo were Benfica team-mates in 2012/13.