Sporting CP v Atlético background
Atlético Madrid’s office of a third UEFA Europa League climax collected gait as they posted a fifth unbroken feat in this season’s foe to better Sporting CP 2-0 in a Spanish capital. The Lisbon bar face a tough charge to overturn a necessity given their new problems opposite antithesis from Spain.
• Third in their UEFA Champions League group, Sporting kick Astana 6-4 on total in a turn of 32 before circumference past Viktoria Plzeň in additional time of their turn of 16 tie, Rodrigo Battaglia’s header giving a Lisbon bar a 3-2 feat over a dual legs.
• Having also crossed over to a UEFA Europa League after finishing third in their UEFA Champions League group, Atlético done light work of both Danish champions FC København in a turn of 32 and Russian joining leaders Lokomotiv Moskva in a turn of 16, winning all 4 matches and racking adult 13 goals.
Previous meetings
• A Koke idea after usually 22 seconds got Atlético out of a blocks fast in Madrid, and nonetheless Sporting combined chances to equalise, it was a home side who also scored a second when Antoine Griezmann raced by to double a lead on 40 minutes. No serve goals followed, enabling Atlético to keep their fourth unbroken European purify piece during a Estadio Metropolitano.
• Atlético and Sporting initial met in a turn of 16 of a initial 2009/10 UEFA Europa League, with a Spanish club, coached by Quique Sánchez Flores, going by on divided goals after a 0-0 pull in Madrid was followed by a 2-2 pull opposite Carlos Carvalhal’s side in Lisbon. Sergio Agüero scored twice past Sporting goalkeeper Rui PatrÃcio to assistance Atlético validate for a quarter-finals of a foe they went on to win.
• Defeated in their final 6 matches opposite Spanish clubs, Sporting exaggerate usually dual wins in 8 two-legged knockout ties opposite Liga opposition.
• The Portuguese outfit do exaggerate a certain home record during home to Spanish visitors (W6 D2 L4), yet have won usually one of a final 6 in Lisbon, losing 3 including 0-1 opposite Barcelona in this season’s UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Atlético’s record in Portugal is W3 D2 L4. The 3 victories have come in their final 4 visits, including a 2-1 success during Sporting’s city rivals Benfica in a many new encounter, on matchday 6 of a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League, Saúl ÑÃguez opening a scoring. Diego GodÃn and Gabi have also netted for Atlético on before trips to Portugal.
• Atlético mislaid their initial 3 knockout ties opposite Portuguese antithesis yet have won a final two, many recently opposite Vitória SC (6-0 on aggregate) in a play-offs of a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League, that they went on to win.
Form guide
• Sporting reason a record for a longest method of home games though better in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final. They were dominant in their initial 20 home matches in a foe before losing 3-1 opposite Lokomotiv Moskva in Lisbon on matchday one of a 2015/16 organisation stage. Their altogether UEFA Europa League record in a Portuguese capital, including qualifying, is W19 D8 L3.
• Sporting have won usually dual of their final 8 home games in UEFA foe (D3 L3), yet they are dominant in their final 4 (W2 D2).
• The Lions, who finished runners-up in a 2004/05 UEFA Cup, losing a final in their possess track to CSKA Moskva (1-3), are in a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals for a second time. They won a initial such tie, overcoming Metalist Kharkiv 3-2 on total in 2011/12 (2-1 home, 1-1 away).
• This is Sporting’s tenth quarter-final in UEFA competition. In all 5 of a before 9 that they won, they posted a feat in a home leg. The usually quarter-final in that they won in Lisbon yet unsuccessful to swell was opposite Real Sociedad in a 1982/83 European Cup, when they followed a 1-0 home win with a 0-2 better in San Sebastian on their initial revisit to Spain.
• Sporting finished third in final season’s Portuguese Liga and reached a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre with a 5-1 win divided to Romanian side FCSB in a play-offs, that clinched an total success by a same margin. They finished third in their domain behind Barcelona and Juventus.
• Atlético are dominant on their European travels this season, 3 draws in a UEFA Champions League preceding dual wins in a UEFA Europa League.
• The Madrid bar are on a run of 7 unbroken divided wins in a UEFA Europa League knockout phase, during that they have scored 19 goals and conceded four. Indeed, their usually detriment in 11 such fixtures (W8 D2), a 2-1 better after additional time opposite Liverpool in a 2009/10 semi-final second leg, still sent them by to a final on a divided goals rule. They were also winning on neutral domain in a finals of 2010 (Hamburg) and 2012 (Bucharest).
• UEFA Europa League victors in 2010 and 2012, Atlético are creation their initial coming in a foe in 5 years. Since afterwards Diego Simeone’s side have seemed in dual UEFA Champions League finals and reached a quarter-finals and semi-finals in dual other seasons.
• Successful in both of their UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, opposite Valencia in 2009/10 (2-2 away, 0-0 home) and Hannover in 2011/12 (2-1 home, 2-1 away), Atlético’s altogether record in UEFA foe quarter-final ties is W15 L5, a many new of those victories carrying come opposite Leicester City in final season’s UEFA Champions League (1-0 home, 1-1 away). They have won usually 4 of their 20 quarter-final divided legs (D8 L8).
• The Madrid bar have won all 5 of their UEFA Europa League fixtures this tenure – a usually bar to have a ideal record in a knockout rounds.
• Atlético finished third in a Spanish Liga final season, and this is usually a second time in 8 attempts that they have unsuccessful to swell over a organisation theatre of a UEFA Champions League. However, on a usually other occasion, in 2009/10, they went on to win a UEFA Europa League.
• Sporting have mislaid a initial leg divided in 22 UEFA foe ties, recuperating to win 9 of them, any of a final 7 after overturning one-goal deficits.
• The Portuguese bar have mislaid 4 of a 5 ties in that they were degraded 2-0 by their hosts in a initial leg, many recently by Wolfsburg in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League turn of 32 (0-0 home). The usually difference was opposite Atalanta in a initial turn of a 1963/64 European Cup Winners’ Cup – a foe they went on to win – when they purebred a 3-1 second-leg feat in Lisbon. Sporting went on to win a replay 3-1 after additional time in neutral Barcelona.
• Atlético have won 30 of a 37 UEFA foe ties in that they have prevailed in a home initial leg – including all of a final 18, many recently opposite Lokomotiv Moskva in this season’s UEFA Europa League turn of 16 (3-0 home, 5-1 away).
• When a home initial leg has finished 2-0, Atlético’s record is 5 education out of five, many recently in that 2011/12 UEFA Europa League play-off opposite Portuguese bar Vitória SC (4-0 away).
Links and trivia
• This is a usually tie between dual teams that have formerly participated in a UEFA Europa League quarter-finals. Indeed, they are a usually dual clubs still in a margin that have before knowledge of a semi-finals.
• Atlético are a usually former UEFA Europa League winners in a quarter-finals, nonetheless CSKA Moskva carried a UEFA Cup in 2005.
• Sporting have participated in 7 of a 9 UEFA Europa League campaigns. Only Ajax (eight appearances) have been concerned in more.
• Sporting trainer Jorge Jesus coached a organisation in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final, for a 50th time in their turn of 16 second leg during Viktoria Plzeň. Only one other manager has reached that foe miracle – three-time prize leader Unai Emery (59 games).
• Rui PatrÃcio has been on a margin for each notation of Sporting’s 13 European encounters in 2017/18. He has kept usually dual purify sheets.
• Atlético defenders Diego GodÃn and José MarÃa Giménez are Uruguay team-mates of Sporting centre-back Sebastián Coates.
• Sporting defender Jérémy Mathieu has played alongside Antoine Griezmann for France.
• Rui PatrÃcio and William Carvalho were in a Portugal side that degraded Griezmann’s France 1-0 after additional time in a UEFA EURO 2016 final. There is a statue of a goalkeeper in his home city of Leiria depicting a fantastic save he done from a Griezmann header in that Stade de France showpiece.
• Fábio Coentrão (Real Madrid), Mathieu (Valencia, Barcelona) and Cristiano Piccini (Real Betis) have all played in Spain, while Atlético’s Jan Oblak (Benfica, Olhanense, Leiria, Rio Ave) and Diego Costa (Penafiel, Braga) have both represented Portuguese clubs.
• Fábio Coentrão is on loan to Sporting from Atlético’s city rivals Real Madrid. In 5 seasons with a Merengues he faced Atlético 12 times, recording 6 wins (including a 2014 UEFA Champions League final), one pull and 5 defeats.
• Vitolo and Kevin Gameiro both played in Sevilla’s feat in a 2014 UEFA Europa League final over a Benfica side coached by Jorge Jesus; Gameiro scored a wilful chastisement in a shoot-out after a 0-0 pull in Turin.
• Diego Costa and Filipe LuÃs were in a Chelsea side that degraded Sporting twice in a 2014/15 UEFA Champions League organisation theatre (1-0 away, 3-1 home); Stefan Savić faced Sporting for Manchester City in a second leg of a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League turn of 16, that City won 3-2 yet were separated on divided goals.
• Griezmann’s idea in a initial leg was a 500th scored by a Spanish bar in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final. This second leg is a 300th compare in a foe correct featuring a organisation from Spain. Both total are annals for a singular nation.
• Sporting span Fábio Coentrão and Bas Dost are dangling after picking adult yellow cards in a initial leg.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Marcos Acuña, Gelson Martins, Bruno Fernandes, Rodrigo Battaglia, Cristiano Piccini (Sporting); Ãngel Correa, Saúl ÑÃguez (Atlético).
Penalty shoot-outs
• Sporting have mislaid both of their UEFA chastisement shoot-outs:
3-5 v Dinamo Minsk, 1984/85 UEFA Cup second round
3-4 v Napoli, 1989/90 UEFA Cup initial round
• Atlético’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W2 L4:
6-7 v Derby, 1974/75 UEFA Cup second round
1-3 v Fiorentina, 1989/90 UEFA Cup initial round
1-3 v Villarreal, 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup final
3-2 v Leverkusen, 2014/15 UEFA Champions League turn of 16
8-7 v PSV Eindhoven, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League turn of 16
3-5 v Real Madrid, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League final
The coaches
• Jorge Jesus was lured to Sporting from Lisbon rivals Benfica in 2015 after 6 seasons as conduct manager with a Eagles that brought 10 domestic trophies, including 3 Liga titles, and dual runners-up berths in a UEFA Europa League – in 2012/13 to Chelsea and 2013/14 to Sevilla. His comparatively watchful personification career started with Sporting in a early 1970s.
• Diego Simeone has been a Atlético manager given Dec 2011, and has combined 5 trophies to a club’s collection, including a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League, as good as steering a Madrid bar to a UEFA Champions League finals of 2014 and 2016. The warlike ex-Argentina midfielder also had dual spells during Atlético as a player, winning a Spanish double in 1995/96.