Spartak Moskva aim to adult a ante opposite Maribor
FC Spartak Moskva will demeanour to put vigour on a tip dual in Group E when they perform NK Maribor in a penultimate turn of fixtures.
• Spartak are third in a standings on 5 points, dual behind second-placed Sevilla FC and 3 adrift of Liverpool FC, with those teams assembly in Spain on matchday five.
• Spartak can't be separated whatever their result and will safeguard during slightest third mark with a draw.
• Maribor have picked adult usually one indicate from their initial 4 fixtures, and contingency win while anticipating Sevilla remove to stay in row for a top-two finish. They will finish fourth if they destroy to win.
Match background
Spartak
• Matchday one was a Russian club’s initial diversion opposite Slovenian opposition.
• Spartak have warranted 4 points during home in Group E, following a 1-1 pull opposite Liverpool with a 5-1 thrashing of Sevilla, their biggest win in a UEFA Champions League.
• That was Spartak’s usually win in their final 11 European fixtures, home and away, given a 2-1 feat over SL Benfica on 23 Oct 2012 (D4 L6).
• Before a Liverpool draw, Spartak had mislaid their prior 3 European home matches; they have now mislaid 4 of a final seven. They have won usually 5 of their final 19 UEFA home games, losing 11.
• This is Spartak’s 12th organisation theatre campaign, and initial given 2012/13, when they came fourth in a territory also including FC Barcelona, 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 fixtures and won a other.
• The Moscow bar competent automatically for a organisation theatre by lifting their 22nd joining pretension in 2016/17. Last term, their European plea finished during a initial hurdle, with defeat by AEK Larnaca FC in a UEFA Europa League third subordinate round.
Maribor
• The Slovenian champions have mislaid both divided games 3-0, going down at Sevilla on matchday two and Liverpool final time out. They have mislaid their final 3 UEFA Champions League matches, home and away.
• Maribor have now mislaid 4 of their final 8 European divided games (W2 D2). However, they have mislaid usually 5 of their final 16 UEFA matches, home and divided (W6 D5).
• Maribor’s solitary feat in a UEFA Champions League proper, organisation theatre to final, came divided from home with a 1-0 success during FC Dynamo Kyiv on their entrance in Sep 1999. Their divided record given reads D2 L5.
• The usually prior time Maribor trafficked to Russia, they drew 1-1 during FC Rubin Kazan in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League organisation stage. They had crashed 5-2 during home.
• The Slovenes are in a organisation theatre for a third time, carrying formerly competed in 1999/2000 and 2014/15. In that latter organisation coming they drew 1-1 during FC Schalke 04 and mislaid during both Sporting Clube de Portugal (1-3) and Chelsea FC (0-6 – their biggest divided better in a competition).
• Maribor competent for this season’s UEFA Champions League by winning a sixth Slovenian pretension in 7 seasons in 2016/17. In Europe final term, they kick PFC Levski Sofia and Aberdeen FC before losing to Gabala SC in a UEFA Europa League play-offs.
• Maribor got to a stream organisation theatre by overcoming HÅ K Zrinjski of Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-2 on total in a second subordinate turn (2-1 away, 1-1 home) and Iceland’s FH Hafnarfjördur in a subsequent turn (1-0 home, 1-0 away). In a play-offs they went down 2-1 during Hapoel Beer-Sheva FC in a initial leg though progressed on divided goals interjection to a 1-0 home success.
Coach and actor links
• Marko Šuler played all 180 mins in a 2010 FIFA World Cup play-offs as Slovenia mislaid 2-1 in Russia before securing a 1-0 home success in a second leg to validate for a finals.