Sporting find to finish off Olympiacos
Sporting Clube de Portugal acquire Olympiacos FC to Lisbon meaningful that a indicate will lengthen their European season.
• The Portuguese side, who won 3-2 in Piraeus on matchday one, have 4 points to distortion third in Group D, with FC Barcelona tip on 10 points, 3 forward of Juventus. Sporting will sojourn in quarrel if they win though will be incompetent to be finish in a tip dual if they lose, or if they pull and Juve do not remove during home to Barça. A pull clinches during slightest third place for Sporting.
• Olympiacos have picked adult usually one indicate from their 4 games so distant and contingency win and wish Juventus remove to stay in quarrel for a top-two finish. If Olympiacos do not win they will finish fourth.
Match background
Sporting CP
• Sporting’s usually knowledge of Greek antithesis before to matchday one was a 4-1 home win opposite Panionios GSS in a 2004/05 UEFA Cup organisation stage.
• The Lisbon bar have won usually one of their final 7 European home games, losing four. In Group D they were beaten 1-0 by Barcelona on matchday dual before a 1-1 pull opposite Juventus in their many new fixture.
• The Portuguese organisation were 5-1 total winners opposite Romania’s FCSB in a play-offs, following adult a 0-0 home draw with a 5-1 success in Bucharest. That feat in Romania finished Sporting’s four-game losing strain in European divided matches.
• Sporting are in a organisation theatre for a third time in 4 seasons. In 2016/17, they came fourth in their territory behind Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid CF and Legia Warszawa.
• Sporting competent by finishing third in a Portuguese Liga in 2016/17.
Olympiacos
• The Greek outfit won on their final revisit to Portugal, recording a 1-0 feat during FC Arouca in final season’s UEFA Europa League play-offs – their initial success in a country. They are dominant in their final dual trips (W1 D1); overall, their record divided to Portuguese clubs is W1 D2 L4.
• Olympiacos succumbed 2-0 during Juventus on matchday dual and went down 3-1 during Barcelona in their third tie though have won 3 of their final 6 European divided games, including a initial dual this season. In their final UEFA Champions League organisation campaign, in 2015/16, they won dual of their 3 divided fixtures.
• Olympiacos non-stop this deteriorate with a 5-3 total success over FK Partizan in a third subordinate turn (3-1 away, 2-2 home). They afterwards got a improved of HNK Rijeka in a play-offs, entrance by 2-1 during home and 1-0 away.
• Olympiacos are in a organisation theatre for an 18th time. They lost to Hapoel Beer-Sheva FC in final season’s third subordinate round, a initial time they had missed out on a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given 2010/11.
• In 2016/17, a Greek side went on to make a UEFA Europa League turn of 16, falling 5-2 on total to Beşiktaş JK.
• The Piraeus bar warranted a place in this season’s subordinate rounds by lifting their 44th Greek championship in 2016/17 – their seventh in a row.
Coach and actor links
• André Martins sealed for Sporting in 2002, fasten a Under-13 squad. He done his comparison entrance in 2011 and went on to assemble some-more than 100 appearances before relocating to Olympiacos in summer 2016.
• Has played in Greece:
André Pinto (Panathinaikos FC, 2012/13)
• Have played in Portugal:
Diogo Figueiras (CD Pinhalnovense 2010/11, Paços Ferreira, 2011–13, Moreirense FC 2012)
Sebá (FC Porto 2012/13, GD Estoril Praia 2013–15)
Felipe Pardo (SC Braga 2013–15)
Mehdi Carcela-González (SL Benfica, 2015/16)
• Pardo faced Sporting 5 times while during Braga, losing 4 and also tasting better in a final as Braga mislaid a 2015 Portugual Cup final on penalties after a 2-2 draw.
• Have played together:
Bruno César Sebá (Estoril, 2015)
André Pinto Felipe Pardo (Braga, 2014–15)
André Pinto Rodrigo Battaglia (Braga, 2013/14)
André Pinto Stefano Kapino (Panathinaikos, 2012/13)
Radosav Petrović Jagoš Vuković (Serbia)