Sporting CP v FCSB: play-off contribution and stats
Beaten in both their prior UEFA Champions League play-off ties, Sporting CP will be essay to safeguard it is a box of third time propitious opposite FCSB.Â
Previous meetings
• The initial leg represents a clubs’ initial assembly in UEFA competition.
• Sporting have played 6 matches opposite Romanian clubs – and a home organisation have won any one, with a divided side unwell to measure on any occasion.
• FCSB have won usually one of their prior 6 games opposite clubs from Portugal, violence Rio Ave 2-1 in Bucharest in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League organisation stage; they drew 2-2 away.
• FCSB’s prior 4 fixtures opposite Portuguese antithesis all came opposite Benfica, to whom they mislaid in a 1987/88 European Champion Clubs’ Cup semi-finals (0-0 home, 0-2 away). In a 1994/95 UEFA Champions League organisation stage, a 2-1 better in Lisbon was followed by a 1-1 pull in Romania.
Match background
• Sporting are aiming to strech a organisation theatre for a third time in 4 years.
• The Lisbon side have mislaid both their prior UEFA Champions League play-offs – opposite ACF Fiorentina in 2009/10 and PFC CSKA Moskva in 2015/16.
• In 2016/17, Sporting finished fourth in their organisation behind Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid CF and Legia Warszawa.
• Sporting competent by entrance third in a Portuguese Liga in 2016/17.
• The Portuguese organisation have mislaid 3 of their final 4 European home games, winning a other.
• The Romanian bar reached a play-offs with a 6-3 total win opposite FC Viktoria Plzeň of a Czech Republic, following adult a 2-2 home pull with a 4-1 divided success.
• FCSB are seeking to competition a organisation theatre for a eighth time, and a initial given 2013/14.
• The Bucharest side’s record in UEFA Champions League play-offs is W1 L2. They kick Legia Warszawa on divided goals in 2013/14 though mislaid to PFC Ludogorets Razgrad on penalties a subsequent year and went down 6-0 on total to Manchester City FC in 2016/17.
• In 2016/17, FCSB went on to finish fourth in their UEFA Europa League group.
• FCSB competent for a UEFA Champions League after entrance second in final season’s Romanian tip flight.
• The 4-1 feat during Plzeň was FCSB’s initial in 6 European divided fixtures (D2 L3).
Team and manager links
• Romanian László Bölöni, a member of FC Steaua BucureÈ™ti’s 1986 European Cup-winning team, coached Sporting to their many new joining pretension triumph, in 2001/02. The Lions also landed a Portuguese Cup and domestic Super Cup during his two-season tenure.
• FCSB exaggerate Portuguese talent in a form of Paris-born Filipe Teixeira.
• Júnior Morais spent a deteriorate and a half with Portuguese lower-league outfit SC Freamunde before relocating to Romania in Jan 2011.
Coach profiles
• A losing UEFA Europa League finalist with SL Benfica in 2013 and 2014, Jorge Jesus suddenly left a Eagles for internal rivals Sporting in summer 2015. The 63-year-old had started his personification career during Sporting – where his father Virgolino had also been a actor – yet had coached Benfica given 2009.
• Appointed in June, carrying guided SCM Pitești to graduation to a Romanian second tier in a 2016/17 season, former aggressive midfielder Nicolae Dică won joining titles as a actor with Steaua and CFR 1907 Cluj. The 37-year-old represented Romania on 32 occasions, scoring 9 goals, featuring in all 3 of their matches during UEFA EURO 2008. He was voted Romanian actor of a year in 2006.