Sevilla v Standard Liège facts
Sevilla, who have won a UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League total a record 5 times, lapse to a competition’s organisation theatre for a initial time in 4 years after a successful subordinate run, hosting a Standard Liège whose usually European tie during a summer finished in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate turn defeat.
Previous meetings
• Standard are a usually Belgian bar Sevilla have ever faced in UEFA competition, and their record opposite a Liege side is W1 D1 L1, a feat entrance in a usually one of a 3 games staged in Seville – 3-1 in a organisation theatre of a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League, that a Andalusians went on to win. Standard’s one feat came during home on matchday one of a 2008/09 UEFA Cup organisation stage.
• Standard have won one of their 5 matches in Spain, 3-2 opposite Real Madrid in a 1969/70 European Champion Clubs’ Cup second turn – a outcome that took them by following a 1-0 first-leg home win in Belgium.
Form guide
Sevilla
• Although they were UEFA Champions League quarter-finalists final term, seventh place in Spain’s Liga meant that Sevilla’s initial compare behind in a UEFA Europa League given their 2016 final success opposite Liverpool was in a second subordinate round. They came by their opening tie, opposite Hungary’s Újpest, with ease, winning both legs, and it was a same story in successive rounds opposite Žalgiris Vilnius and Sigma Olomouc.
• This is Sevilla’s fourth coming in a UEFA Europa League organisation stage. They have always progressed by to a knockout phase, winning a foe in both 2013/14 and 2014/15. The hat-trick delight of 2015/16 came after they had crossed over to a foe from a UEFA Champions League during a winter.
• Sevilla have won all 3 European home games this season, fluctuating to 11 matches their winning run during home to non-Spanish antithesis in a UEFA Europa League. Their final dual home defeats in this foe have both been to associate Liga sides – 1-2 opposite Athletic Club in a 2015/16 quarter-finals and 0-2 opposite city rivals Betis in a 2013/14 turn of 16 – yet Sevilla won both ties on penalties.
Standard
• Standard enjoyed a cultivatable 2017/18 season, finishing runners-up in a Belgian fasten and winning an eighth domestic cup. Their hopes of a initial UEFA Champions League organisation debate in 9 years finished during a hands of Ajax in this season’s third subordinate turn – their indicate of entrance – with a 5-2 total defeat, promulgation them instead into a UEFA Europa League organisation stage.
• The Liege bar have competed in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre in 4 prior campaigns, though have usually once done serve progress, behind in 2011/12, when they went on to a turn of 16. They were quarter-finalists in a initial 2009/10 deteriorate after switching over mid-campaign from a UEFA Champions League.
• Standard have won usually one of their final 9 UEFA Europa League organisation games divided from home, losing 6 including that 2014/15 diversion during Sevilla.Â
Links and trivia
• Standard’s Guillermo Ochoa (Málaga and Granada), Medhi Carcela (Granada) and Maxime Lestienne (Málaga) have all played bar football in southern Spain.
• Paul-José M’Poku scored Standard’s satisfaction idea on their final revisit to Sevilla, in Nov 2014, during his initial spell during a club.
The coaches
• Pablo MachÃn was allocated by Sevilla as their new conduct manager on a two-year agreement in May 2018 – a prerogative for 4 on-going campaigns during a helm of Catalan outfit Girona, whom he guided into a Spanish tip moody before surpassing expectations by heading them to a tenth-placed Liga finish in 2017/18. Forced to retire from personification during 23, he had a extensive organisation with home-town bar Numancia before fasten Girona in 2014. This is his initial deteriorate on a European stage.
• A former goalkeeper who played 58 times for a Belgian inhabitant team, Michel Preud’homme started out with Standard, winning dual fasten titles before creation serve waves with Mechelen, particularly in European Cup Winners’ Cup delight of 1988/89. He has enjoyed identical success as a coach, winning trophies with each bar he has managed, many recently a 2015/16 Belgian fasten with Club Brugge. This is his third spell in assign during Standard.