Sevilla v Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir: play-off contribution and stats
İstanbul Başakşehir FK will have to do something they have never managed – win divided in European competition – if a Turkish bar are to make it to a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre during a initial attempt.
Previous meetings
• Wissam Ben Yedder’s strike 6 mins from time warranted Sevilla a 2-1 feat in a initial leg of a teams’ play-off tie on 16 August. Eljero Elia (64) had cancelled out Sergio Escudero’s first-half opener for a Spanish Liga side.
• Sevilla’s 3 other meetings with Turkish club’s in UEFA foe ended:
3-2 v Fenerbahçe SK (2007/08 UEFA Champions League turn of 16)*
2-3 v Fenerbahçe SK (2007/08 UEFA Champions League turn of 16)
3-0 v BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK (2005/06 UEFA Cup organisation stage)
* Lost tie on penalties (see ‘Penalty shoot-outs’ below)
• The initial leg was Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir’s initial confront with a Spanish bar in UEFA competition.
Match background
• Sevilla are aiming to validate for a organisation theatre for a third deteriorate in a row.
• In 2016/17, Sevilla reached a UEFA Champions League turn of 16 – a initial time they had got past a organisation theatre given 2009/10 – where they mislaid 3-2 on total to Leicester City FC.
• Sevilla competent by finishing fourth in a 2016/17 Spanish Liga.
• İstanbul Başakşehir competent by finishing second in a 2016/17 Turkish Super League.
• The Turkish organisation got to this theatre by violence Club Brugge KV 5-3 on total in a third subordinate turn (3-3 away, 2-0 home).
• The 2-0 home delight over Club Brugge on 2 Aug is Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir’s usually feat in 9 UEFA fixtures.
• This is usually Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir’s third European campaign, and their initial in a UEFA Champions League. In 2015/16 they mislaid their opening tie, in a UEFA Europa League second subordinate round, 4-1 on total to AZ Alkmaar.
• In 2016/17, Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir kick Croatia’s HNK Rijeka on divided goals in a UEFA Europa League second subordinate turn (0-0 home, 2-2 away) before losing to FC Shakhar Donetsk in a subsequent theatre (1-2 home, 0-2 away).
• Away from home, Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir’s European record is W0 D2 L2.
Team and manager links
• Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir’s Emmanuel Adebayor and Gaël Clichy featured in a 3-0 success for Arsenal FC opposite Sevilla in a 2007/08 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Adebayor played on loan for Real Madrid CF in a second half of a 2010/11 campaign, scoring opposite Sevilla (2-0) in a lapse leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final.
• Sevilla’s Simon Kjær spent a 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons with Fenerbahçe, confronting a Owls 3 times in a joining (W2 L1). He also played opposite them in a Turkish Cup semi-final final tenure that finished 4-4 on aggregate, Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir going by 10-9 on penalties.
• İstanbul Başakşehir midfielder Emre Belözoğlu was with Club Atlético de Madrid in a initial half of a 2012/13 campaign, creation 7 Liga appearances.
Coach profiles
• Sevilla trainer Eduardo Berizzo played in Spain, France and Argentina as a defender, with Marcelo Bielsa, his initial manager during CA Newell’s Old Boys, carrying a surpassing change on him. After aiding Bielsa with a Chilean inhabitant team, he followed his possess coaching career and landed a pursuit during former employers RC Celta de Vigo, holding a Galicians to a semi-finals of a UEFA Europa League for a initial time in 2016/17.
• Abdullah Avcı guided Turkey to a UEFA European Under-17 Championship pretension in 2005 and a semi-finals of a FIFA U-17 World Cup after that year. He took assign of İstanbul Başakşehir in 2006 and, on a behind of several plain seasons, succeeded Guus Hiddink as comparison Turkey manager in Nov 2011. Avcı quiescent 21 months later, returning to İstanbul Başakşehir in summer 2014.
Penalty shoot-outs
• Sevilla’s chastisement shoot-out record in UEFA foe is W5, L1:
4-3 v PAOK FC (1990/91 UEFA Cup initial round)
3-1 v RCD Espanyol (2006/07 UEFA Cup final)
2-3 v Fenerbahçe SK (2007/08 UEFA Champions League turn of 16)
4-3 v Real Betis Balompié (2013/14 UEFA Europa League turn of 16)
4-2 v SL Benfica (2013/14 UEFA Europa League final)
5-4 v Athletic Club (2015/16 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals)
• İstanbul Başakşehir have never been concerned in a European chastisement shoot-out.